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Film, Video The wizard's apprentice

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About this Item

Title

  • The wizard's apprentice

Summary

  • An apprentice attempts to employ the black magic of his master, with dire results. He succeeds in some trick stuff, and then finds he cannot break the spell. Threatened with drowning in the sorcerer's workshop, with a woman he animated from statue, he's finally saved by the master who scolds him for his folly.

Names

  • Schenck, Joseph M., 1877-1961, presenter
  • Levee, Sidney, 1902-1981, film director
  • Riesenfeld, Hugo, 1879-1939, film producer
  • Menzies, William Cameron, 1896-1957, film producer
  • Feld, Fritz, 1900-1993, actor
  • Granstedt, Greta, actor
  • Siegel, Bernard, 1868-1940, actor
  • Swickard, Josef, 1866-1940, actor
  • Staines, D. Marion, film editor
  • Dukas, Paul, 1865-1935, composer
  • Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832
  • Artcinema Associates, film distributor
  • United Artists Corporation, film distributor
  • Feature Productions, Inc., copyright claimant

Created / Published

  • United States : Artcinema Associates, Inc. : United Artists, 1930.

Headings

  • -  Wizards
  • -  Magic
  • -  Apprentices

Genre

  • Fantasy films
  • Silent films
  • Short films
  • Fiction films

Notes

  • -  LP1384 U.S. Copyright Office
  • -  Inspired by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's poem, The sorcerer's apprentice.
  • -  Copyright: Feature Productions, Inc. (William Cameron Menzies, author); 1Apr30; LP1384.
  • -  According to secondary sources United Artists was the distributor, however, "Released by Artcinema Associates, Inc." appears on title frames.
  • -  Fritz Feld, Greta Granstedt, Bernard Siegel, Josef Swickard.
  • -  Musical score, Paul Dukas ; editor, D. Marion Staines ; photographer, Alfred Schmid.
  • -  Summary adapted from Motion picture news.
  • -  Sources used: Copyright catalog, motion pictures, 1912-1939, p. 963, viewed November 3, 2023 via Internet Archive; Motion picture news, September 20, 1930, p. 54, viewed online November 3, 2023 via Media History Digital Library; Internet movie database WWW site, viewed November 3, 2023.

Medium

  • 1 video file (digital) (approximately 10 min.) : sd., b&w.

Source Collection

  • Schwartz (Charles) Collection (Library of Congress)

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2023600645

Online Format

  • image
  • video

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Chicago citation style:

Schenck, Joseph M., Presenter, Sidney Levee, Hugo Riesenfeld, William Cameron Menzies, Fritz Feld, Greta Granstedt, Bernard Siegel, et al. The Wizard's Apprentice. composeds by Dukas, Paul United States: Artcinema Associates, Inc.: United Artists, 1930. Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/2023600645/.

APA citation style:

Schenck, J. M., Levee, S., Riesenfeld, H., Menzies, W. C., Feld, F., Granstedt, G. [...] Feature Productions, I. (1930) The Wizard's Apprentice. Dukas, P., comp United States: Artcinema Associates, Inc.: United Artists. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2023600645/.

MLA citation style:

Schenck, Joseph M., Presenter, et al. The Wizard's Apprentice. comp by Dukas, Paul United States: Artcinema Associates, Inc.: United Artists, 1930. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2023600645/>.