In the Shadow of the Machine (1928)

Original title

Im Schatten der Maschine

Directed by

Albrecht Viktor Blum, Léo Lania

Genre

documentary film

Country

Germany

Runtime

22 min

Rating

6.4 of 10 from 7 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This short compilation film looks at how machines affect people. It pieces together footage to show the relationship between humans and technology in the late 1920s.

observationalcriticalseriousreflectivedisjointedsilent-erastarkthought-provoking

What happens

Im Schatten der Maschine ist ein Kurzkompilationsfilm von Albrecht Viktor Blum und Leo Lania von 1928. Er stellt kritisch die Wirkungen von Maschinen auf die Menschen dar. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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