Mister Radio

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  • Genre: Feature film / Extract
  • Year: 1924
  • Runtime: 06:57 min
  • Description: The video shows the first five minutes of the film. Film synopsis: When banker Joe Swalzen, his secretary, Swalzen's daughter Marion and her governess, Edy are threatened with an accident during a hike, athletic physicist Gaston de Montfort comes to their rescue. Gaston, popularly known as Mister Radio, lives secluded in the mountains with his mother, as she wants to protect her son from the truth about his father's violent death. Marion falls in love with Gaston and arranges funding for his invention to help prevent railroad collisions using radio waves. But Joe Swalzen, Marion's father and financier for this project, turns out to be Gaston's father's murderer.
    "Mister Radio" was digitized by DFF - Deutsches Filminstitut & Filmmuseum as part of the film heritage funding program "Förderprogramm Filmerbe" (FFE) in 2020. filmportal.de, the central internet platform for German cinema and a department of DFF - Deutsches Filminstitut & Filmmuseum, documents the progress and results of "Förderprogramm Filmerbe", which is funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, the German federal states and the German Federal Film Board. The first five minutes of feature-length films digitized with funding from the FFE are presented on filmportal.de to document the successful completion of the respective project.
  • Provider: DFF – Deutsches Filminstitut & Filmmuseum
  • Rights: In Copyright
  • Production company: Phoebus-Film AG (Berlin)
  • Director: Nunzio Malasomma
  • Language: de