Filmstaden
Staden film ( "Film City " ) is the name of the former film studios in Solna, near Stockholm, where a significant part of the Swedish film productions created during the years 1920-1969.
History
Film Staden was 1919-1920 according to the plans of the architect ebb Crone on the initiative of the Swedish film company Svensk Industri film, short SF built. The architectural style is typical Swedish Classicism of the 1920s. For the sake of rest from work created a complete facility with studios, administration building, laboratory, dressing rooms and restaurants far outside the city of Stockholm. Film Staden was in his time one of Europe's most modern film studios and one of the largest in the world.
The first film was produced here Körkarlen by Victor Sjöström. Since then, some 400 films were made, including many films of Ingmar Bergman as Wild Strawberries and The Seventh Seal. In 1969 SF left the premises and soon after the production of films has been completely set.
Ingmar Bergman film Staden, described in his book Laterna Magica:
"Film Staden in Råsunda was a factory that produced annually during the forties, between twenty and thirty films. There was a great deal of experience in professional skill and craft tradition, to inefficiency and Bohemerie. During my years as a manuscript negroes I had often stopped me in the studio, the laboratory, the editing rooms, the sound department and the cafeteria, by the premises and the people were quite well known to me. I was also excited convinced that I would soon manifest as the world 's leading film director. "
Filmstaden today
Today, the site seems like its own small district Solnas. Some of the historic buildings have been preserved and renovated, they are under monument protection. They now include artist studios, offices of film, movie theaters and restaurants. These new residential buildings have been built on the site. Of the original buildings have been preserved, among other items:
- The entrance and guardhouse received the visitors. The wrought-iron portal with the logo of the film company SF, Svensk Industri film, dating back to the origin of time, before there was a barrier within the portal with a large "Stop " sign. The porter knew the access control and supervised the handling of hazardous nitrate film.
- In the Studio ( Lilla Ateljén ) all classic silent movies were filmed, also Körkarlen originated here. In the building there were several studios on three floors, the largest was on the top floor under a glass roof and glass facades. Even the sound era was filmed here on, although the large glass surfaces could penetrate noise from outside. On the ground floor you will find the renovated Bergman operand cinema with 24 seats, which was used to view the current film footage and the Rohkopien.
- In the laboratory ( Laboratoriehuset ) the footage was developed and printed. On a day up to 25,000 feet of film could be processed. The building was fire and explosion safe because of the then applied nitrate film.
- The director Pavilion ( Regissörspaviljongen ) included work and meeting rooms for directors. Here, for example, Victor Sjöström, Mauritz Stiller and Selma Lagerlof met to discuss how her novel could best be implemented into a movie.