The Black and White Translation project immediately made me relate to the film “Ghosts Before Breakfast” by Hans Richter, who was a German Dadaist. The abstraction of forms and the use of montage delivered a anti-Nazi image. With tight control from the government, many artists had to resort to creative solutions to deliver anti-government messages on screen. Although all films in the 1920s were Black and White, the deliberate use of this fact is also very apparent in the film.
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