USA 1939 | Director: Victor Fleming | Fantasy, Musical | 102 minutes | 35mm | OmU

Thursday, October 10, 2024, 7 pm

Blue Salon, Room 012, HfG Karlsruhe

Free admission, donation requested

"There's no place like home"... In the opening film of our CINEMA OF COLORS series, Dorothy and her dog Toto are whisked away by a tornado into a vibrant, colorful world. On her quest to find the Wizard of Oz, she encounters a scarecrow without a brain, a tin man without a heart, and a cowardly lion, who all help her in her journey back home. Based on L. Frank Baum's book "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz," this fantastical musical was nominated for an Oscar for Best Original Song ("Over the Rainbow") and Best Original Score. The cult classic dazzles with its iconic use of color and groundbreaking special effects, continuing to influence pop culture, including musicals and animated films.

The transformation, as Dorothy steps from her drab black-and-white world into the suddenly vibrant Technicolor realm of Oz, must have been a breathtaking experience in 1939. The process of splitting light into its primary colors—red, green, and blue—recorded on separate film strips and then combined into a single, richly colored image, significantly contributed to the film's timeless appeal and marked a revolution for both cinema and television.

Supporting film: Le voyage dans la lune (A Trip to the Moon)

Director: Georges Méliès | France 1902 | 15 minutes | 16mm (hand-colored) | original version

The Kino im Blauen Salon, the student cinema of the Hochschule für Gestaltung, has been run by students since 2017 and has been a registered association since the beginning of 2024: https://kinoimblauensalon.de/de/news.

More about the film series in winter semester 2024/25:

Welcome to our new series CINEMA OF COLORS, in which we are dedicating ten films to the fascinating phenomenon of color in cinema: how does it come about, how does it work, what does it tell...? After all, apart from time, there is probably nothing more essential than light and color, which feed our lives and our projectors. While black and white dominated early cinema for decades, the introduction of Technicolor in the 1930s ushered in a new era for our viewing habits: Color sticks deep in our memory as an emotion. Who could forget the girl's coat in SCHINDLER'S LIST? Why can you immediately recognize a Wes Anderson film by its look, and what color is the MATRIX again?

Our program spans the entire winter semester like a rainbow and shows that the Blauer Salon is not resting on its monochrome reputation. Come along and immerse yourself in a colorful palette of classics and rarities from the international cinema landscape: 10 films of various genres from 10 different production countries and 10 decades will chase the grey season away from your eyes and hearts!

21.10.24 Zendegi va digar hich (1992)

04.11.24 Enter The Void (2009)

18.11.24 Profondo Rosso (1975)

02.12.24 Kult Sneak

07.12.24 Nachtwache

16.12.24 Beau Travail (1999)

10.01.25 Giorgio Moroder’s Metropolis (1984)

15.01.25 All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (2022)

17.01.25 Double-Feature: Le monde du silence + The Life Aquatic

20.01.25 Lady Snowblood (1973)

25.01.25 Aktwechsel - 35mm Workshop

03.02.25 Fallen Angels (1995)

14.02.25 Jazz im Blauen Salon

17.02.25 Faust (1960)

22.02.25 Aktwechsel - 35mm Workshop

03.03.25 The Love Witch (2016)