Isak Thorsen is Research Assistant in the Section of Film and Media Studies at the University of Copenhagen and holds a PhD in Film Studies. He contributed to the anthology "100 Years of Nordisk Film" (DFI 2006) and has written for the journals Film History, Kosmorama, 16:9, Mifune and Sentura. He is editor and author of the Danish entries in the Historical Dictionary of Scandinavian Cinema (Scarecrow 2012).

Introduction

The Research Tradition

The Film Historical Tradition Approach The Structure of This Book

1906-1909

Ole Olsen Biograf-Theatret

Olsen's First Films

The International Film Industry Open and Closed Markets

From Entrepreneur to Modern Industrial Enterprise

The Printing Laboratory

The Technical Quality of the Films Colourization of the Films Actualities

The First Fiction Films

The Studio in Valby

The Artistic Quality

The Polar Bear on the Globe Nordisk's Protection of its Films Pathé Frères and Gaumont Nordisk's Distribution Network Agents and Distributors

A Tiny Little Mosquito against a Big, Big Elephant

The Congress of Fools

1910-1914

Reorganization of the Company Den hvide Slavehandel

The Dangerous Age

The Founding of the Limited Company The Bank Syndicate

"Long and Artistic Films are our Future Motto"

Opposition to the Long Films

Exclusive System, Monopolfilm and Distribution

The Script Department Censorship and Self-Regulation Guidelines for Scriptwriters The Censorship Memoranda Russian Endings

Nordisk's Positioning of its Films Actors and Stars

Autorenfilm

The Organization of the Film Factory Bureaucratization

Hollywood in Copenhagen Capital Gains

Olsen's Sale and Stockjobbing Expansion in the USA

1914-1917

The Outbreak of World War I

Russische Schreckensregimente an der Ostgrenze

"Nordisk Films Kompagni Will Now Become the Biggest in the World" Fotorama Filmsbureau A/S and Swedish companies

Nordisk's Expansion Policy in Germany Expansion in Russia

"They Thought We Were German" Ban on Luxury Goods in Germany

The Second Expansion of the Share Capital Aubert and the Black List

The European Shareholding Company The Black Lists

The July Letter

1918-1924

After the War Artistic Decline?

New Trade Conditions The Estate after the War

The European and the American Film Industry

The New Production Method Universum Film Aktiengesellschaft Colosseum in Flensborg

DAFCO

Famous Players

A New, Big Combination

The Liquidation of DAFCO and the UFA

Capital

Metropolteatret and Fotorama

The Depreciation of the Share Capital

The Shareholders' Group

Recapitulation

Sources and Bibliography