A flash artifact project in critical remediation by Danny Snelson
Situating the criminal mastermind of Fritz Lang's Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler
within the webs of digital culture spun by contemporary technologies
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Part 1: The Great Gambler
A Portrait of Our Times

Act 1

1. Introduction
2. Titles and Opening Sequence; Timing, Contract, Train—Full Hand!
3. Planned Accidents
4. Servants Quarrel
5. Blind Ones
6. Controlling the Market

Act 2

1. Psychoanalysis and the Folies Bergères (Introducing Cara Carozza and Edward Hull)
2. Gambling at the "17 und 4" Club
3. Hugo Balling's Promissory Note

Act 3

1. Mistaken Balling, Hull meets Carozza
2. Enter State Prosecutor von Wenk
3. The Back Room at Schramm's Grill
4. The Russian Loses Her Pearls and Hull Receives a Warning

Act 4

1. Von Wenk's Advice and a Troubled Hull
2. Meet Dusy Countess Told and Her Husband
3. Tsi-Nan-Fu at the Palais Andalusia
4. A Quick Getaway and into the Excelsior
5. The Dutch Professor and the Office Manager

Act 5

1. Boat at Sea, Hull and Wenk Must Be Removed
2. Wenk's Possessions Return and Carozza Drops Her Instructions
3. Opening of the Petit Casino and the Countess Attends a Séance
4. Playing with People and Their Faiths, Hull's Death

Act 6

1. Carozza Imprisoned
2. Preparing Carozza's Room while Wenk Visits the Countess
3. Carozza's Love
4. Expressionism, the Great Game, and a Cheat




















Notes from the DVD Release

The Film DR. MABUSE, THE GAMBLER. PART ONE: THE GREAT GAMBLER. A PICTURE OF OUR TIME was first shown on 27 April 1922 in Berlin. The reconstruction was made on the basis of two camera negatives - one of the German and one of the foreign distribution version. The intertitles were, as far as they were present, taken from the negatives. Missing, faulty or non-usable titles were completed, corrected or restored using the censor card.

Restoration and reconstruction took place in 2000 as a co-operation between the film archive of the German Federal Archive (Bundesarchiv-Filmarchiv), Berlin, the Filmmuseum München, and the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Stiftung, Wiesbaden. The present version follows a copy compiled by the Filmmuseum München from the two mentioned negatives and a copy of the Gosfilmofond film archive in Moscow. Comparable and copy works: L'immagine Ritrovata, Bologna


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