Peter Pan (1924 film)

  • Betty Bronson: Peter Pan
  • Mary Brian: Wendy
  • Ernest Torrence: Captain Hook
  • George Ali: Nana, the dog; crocodile
  • Esther Ralston: Mrs. Darling
  • Cyril Chadwick: Mr. Darling
  • Jack Murphy: John Darling
  • Philippe De Lacy: Michael Darling
  • Virginia Brown Faire: Tinker Bell
  • Anna May Wong: Tiger Lily, Indian Princess

Peter Pan is an American film directed by Herbert Brenon in 1924 according to designs from novels by James M. Barrie.

Action

Peter Pan, the boy who would never grow up, arrives in search of his shadow into the house of the Darling family. The three children of the Darling, Wendy, Michael and John to accompany him on the magical island of dreams Neverland, where the lost boys and a people loyal Indians live. In Neverland, the children are kidnapped by the pirate Captain Hook, who wants revenge on Peter, because he lost his hand to a crocodile. But Peter freed the children.

Production, theatrical release and restoration

Herbert Brenons version of Peter Pan is the first film adaptation of Barrie's 1904 stage play of the same name first performance. The film, which emerged exterior shots on right outside Los Angeles Santa Catalina Island Iceland, preserved by his static camera work largely the stage character of the original, which it clearly differs from the later films. The fact that the male title role has been held by a woman, has to do with the fact that this is in the stage version had already become a tradition (eg with Maude Adams). The stage effects of the piece that is included flight numbers, which could be easily implemented with a graceful female actress who was raised on the stage on ropes in the air than with a male lead. Occupied the role - the way of author Barrie himself - with a 17- year-old Betty Bronson, he chose not least because they had received a ballet training with Michel Fokine, they made ​​very convincing in the flying scenes.

While Peter Pan for Bronson already was the seventh film, was almost the same age her partner, Mary Brian, for the first time on camera. The small role of Princess Tiger Lily was occupied by the Chinese-American actress Anna May Wong.

Peter Pan was first performed in the United States on December 29, 1924. The distribution of the film took over Paramount Pictures. In Germany, where the first performance took place in December 1925, he was awarded by the Ufa.

There was no national film archive in the United States and the Paramount in a long- term evaluation of the film had no interest - films are just so long held by the rental in the program, as they bring in money - which most copies of Peter Pan over the years were destroyed. For decades, only significantly defective copies were available until James Card, film restorer and curator of the Eastman House in Rochester, a copy well preserved rediscovered that could be restored in the 1990s at the Walt Disney Studios by David Pierce. Philip C. Carli composed a new soundtrack that was performed by the Flower City Society Orchestra. The restored version was first performed on 8 April 2001 at The El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood.

Criticism

Among film historians and critics Peter Pan is one of the most successful film adaptations of Barrie's play, because on one hand it preserves the effects of the stage version and the other with exterior shots and camera tricks (especially in scenes with the fairy Tinker Bell) enriched.

2000 film of the Library of Congress was " culturally significant" and classified as included in the National Film Register.

Awards

1924 in film Screenplay Willis Goldbeck Film score James Wong Howe Universum Film AG George Eastman House
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