Oskar Sala
Sound · 1910 – 2002 · Greiz, Germany
Oskar Sala was a German composer and, together with Friedrich Trautwein, the inventor and developer of the Trautonium, one of the first electronic musical instruments. As a soloist, he played compositions by Paul Hindemith and Harald Genzmer, among others, on the Trautonium.
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- MovieDocumentaryAnimation
The order comes in the summer of 1941 from Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels himself: The best animators are summoned to Berlin. Their task: Producing feature-length cartoons in ‘Disney quality’ with the newly founded ‘Deutsche Zeichenfilm GmbH’. To get trained, the Disney movie “Snow White” is retraced frame by frame. After the final victory, one new feature-length production of quality shall be released every year from 1947 onwards – that is the plan. Only in 1943, the first production is completed: “Armer Hansi”, a 17-minute-long colour movie, realized with the effortful multiplane technology. The second film by the ‘Deutsche Zeichenfilm’ is only completed in 1946 – by DEFA. In the territories occupied by Germany, cartoons are produced as well, sometimes harmless ones, sometimes propagandistic ones. With excerpts from animated movies, live action film documents, and witness reports by contemporaries, this documentary draws a picture of the cartoon production in the Third Reich.
- Movie9.0DocumentaryMusic
A look at the career of experimental music master Oskar Sala.