Major Changes in the Mid-to-Late 1920s

 Major Changes in the Mid-to-Late 1920s

Technology updates swift by Germans
1)Unlike the French, German filmmakers swiftly updated their technology during the 1920s.
2)Because inflation encouraged film companies to invest their capital in facilities and land,
   many studios were built or expanded.
3)Ufa, for example, enlarged its two main complexes at Tempelhof and Neubabelsberg and
   soon owned the best-equipped studios in Europe,
4)with an extensive backlot at Neubabelsberg that could accommodate several enormous sets.
5)Here were made such epic productions as Lang’s The Nibelungen and Murnau’s Faust.
6)Foreign producers, primarily from England and France, rented Ufa’s facilities for shooting
   large-scale scenes.
7)In 1922, an investment group converted a zeppelin hangar into the world’s largest indoor
   production facility, the Staaken studio.
8)The studio was rented to producing firms for sequences requiring large indoor sets.
9)Scenes from such films as Lang’s monumental Metropolis were shot at Staaken.

The Staaken Studio