Filmzauber, literally 'Film Magic', is a Posse mit Gesang (a kind of popular musical drama) in four scenes by Walter Kollo and Willy Bredschneider, with a German libretto by Rudolf Bernauer and Rudolph Schanzer.[1] A parody of (then popular) silent films, Filmzauber premiered in Berlin in 1912. An English version, The Girl on the Film, translated and adapted by James T. Tanner with additional music by Albert Szirmai, premiered in London in 1913 and was later performed in New York and elsewhere.
- ^ Filmzauber: Posse mit Gesang in 4 Bildern von Rudolf Bernauer u. Rudolf Schanzer ; Vollst. Klavierausz. mit Text Authors Walter Kollo, Willy Bredschneider, Rudolf Bernauer. Dreimasken-Verlag, 1912, Munich