Hans Richter-ghosts for breakfast (1927)

[jlovebirch]

FYI: The title is "Ghosts BEFORE (not for) Breakfast". Very much like the French Dada/surrealist films being made at the same time in Paris. Great stuff. Today movies are a computer-generated crap-fest. That's progress.

[grahamlaur]

It seems to me that this would be a huge influence on Terry Gilliam's Monty Python animations.

[TheBigTaste]

I'd suggest watching the version where People Like Us did the soundtrack to it. Supposedly this isn't the real soundtrack.

[RatPfink66]

@TheBigTaste It goes incredibly well with a couple of mid '30s big band sides: "Mr. Ghost Goes to Town" by Woody Herman - segueing to "Cowboy in Manhattan" by Benny Meroff. Not Hindemith by any means, but they add a certain period levity.

[JubalCalif]

As Arte Johnson would say, "VEEEERY INTERESTING"! What do spirits have for breakfast, anyway? I think they have a big bowl of GHOST TOASTIES! :-)

[sgtmcwallace]

great music

[Happyvampirebat]

I thought it was called ghosts before breakfast.

[justinianianian]

@Happyvampirebat it is.

[BobBerkeley]

It all begins with the insubordination of hats.

[francoissarhan]

this movie is great.

you guys might be interested to know that the role of the "fat" man is played by the french great composer Dairus Milhaud, and the "skinny" man is Paul Hindemith himself !

and the music is not hindemith's anymore, unfortunately.

[Psych0d3likkk]

Funny Ass Stuff ... Dope Ass Film

[yaayaay123]

UAU

[miltonibt]

if it goes back in time it is still eleven, therefore time for breakfast.... Rich people wake up late....

[roquefort88888]

This film is totally Richteous.

Just the thing to lay at the feet of a priest, while trimming a virgin's sunday blouse with a dog's flea-collar.

[prensademorelos]

VERY FANTASTIC!!

[Trund27]

Thanks for the great video. I was reading about this and other early art films and was thrilled to see it here. Hurray for utube!

[ToasterKarl]

This is the most hilarious stuff I've seen in a long time. 5/5

[aquaxcamus]

I believe this one has the original bgm.

[RatPfink66]

@aquaxcamus If you mean "background music," nope -- Paul Hindemith wrote that, and the Nazi censors took care to destroy all copies, probably including the original score.

This is obviously commercially recorded music, which fits nicely but isn't at all avant-garde.

[volodya2]

wow!

[Otheresque]

I think the translation would be more correct as "Ghosts before noon" I'm not totally sure because i'm not a native German speaker, but Vor means before not the english For.

It may just be the translation designated to the film even tho its not a real translation which is also possible, and happens frequently. Don't mean to ramble. I love the film though, thanks for posting :)