Jules Greenbaum
Jules Greenbaum ( born January 15, 1867 in Berlin, † November 1, 1924 ibid; native Julius Wilhelm Grünbaum ) was a German film producer and pioneer of the German film.
Life and work
He lived with his wife Emma, first in the U.S., where in Chicago his first son George was born on 11 November 1889. In 1895 he returned to Berlin, where he was on March 3, 1896 Father of his second son Max Both sons were active later as cameramen, Max was as Mutz Greenbaum and Max Green later a major cameraman for British film.
Jules Greenbaum opened a business in 1897 and sold foreign films. In 1899 he founded the company Bioscope German GmbH to produce itself. He has also taken the cameraman George Furkel, whom he had met in Amsterdam to be in his company. The film of spring parade in 1899 with Kaiser Wilhelm II was his first, the numerous other documentaries followed. In addition to Oskar Messter Greenbaum was the most important German film producer in the period after the turn of the century.
In Vienna, Greenbaum was involved in the founding of the film magazine Cinema Journal, which appeared for the first time on 15 September 1902.
Frequently he let launchings and fleet parades in Wilhelmshaven and Danzig record. 1907 came reports from the German colonial territories in Africa. In 1908, he named his company into Bioscope - Theater GmbH. Greenbaum also sold film equipment and opened in 1906 in the Friedrichstrasse 10 to the Scope Vita - light games his first cinema. In 1907 he founded the Vita Scope Theater -GmbH, which was renamed in 1909 German Vita Scope GmbH.
In 1910, he was directed by Viggo Larsen with Arsène Lupin contra Sherlock Holmes filming his first feature film. His repertoire included detective, Sensations, adventure films, Westerns, several times with Albert Bassermann as the main character. 1913 began the construction of a double studio in Weissensee with the then largest lab in Germany.
In January 1914 merged Greenbaum company with the film company PAGU to the Union -Vita Scope. The Vita Scope studio was sold in July to Pathé Frères, after the outbreak of war but confiscated and returned Greenbaum. In November Greenbaum ended the cooperation with PAGU and founded the Greenbaum -Film GmbH. 1916 joined Greenbaum again with Bassermann a contract that was involved until 1920 in 17 Green Tree Productions.
1922 began a dispute between the Foreign Department of the UFA and the Greenbaum -Film GmbH, which was set in 1924. Green tree itself was already very ill at that time. He was buried after his death at the Jewish Cemetery in Berlin -Weissensee. The company existed until 1932.