Leni Riefenstahl sits looking out the window in a still from the German film Der Heilige Berg, 1926.
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Taussig Europe

Taussig European film stills

Thousands of classic European film stills and portraits from the beginning of cinema to the 1930s are now preserved at the NFSA.

A postwar migrant from Austria, Hans Joseph Carlsson Taussig (1907-1989) developed the collection during his early career in film and journalism in Europe. Hans Taussig donated his collection of early film-related photographs to the National Film Library, the forerunner to the NFSA, more than 60 years ago.

Fritz Lang directs two actors on a movie set while the cinematographer peers through the camera. Still from the making of the film Metropolis, 1927.
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Metropolis
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Fritz Lang directing Gustav Fröhlich (centre) in Metropolis (Germany, 1927). From the Taussig film stills collection.

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Vivien Leigh in costume on the set of Fire Over England has her hair adjusted by an assistant holding a comb as two other actors in costume look on
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Vivien Leigh in Fire Over England
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Vivien Leigh in costume on the set of Fire Over England (William K Howard, UK, 1937). From the Taussig film stills collection.

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A woman stands in the distance on a surrealistic street with buildings leaning at odd angles. Film still from The Cabinet of Dr Caligari, 1920.
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The Cabinet of Dr Caligari
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Elsa Wagner in Das Cabinet des Dr Caligari (AKA The Cabinet of Dr Caligari, Germany, Robert Wiene, 1920). From the Taussig film stills collection.

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Josephine Baker holds up two fingers to a man at a ticket window in a still from the French film La Sirene des Tropiques, 1927.
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Josephine Baker
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Josephine Baker in La Sirene des Tropiques (France, Mario Nalpas, Henri Étiévant, 1927). From the Taussig film stills collection.

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Women in evening dresses stand in diagonal rows on a staircase in a scene from the Austrian film Premiere, 1937.
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Premiere
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A scene from Premiere (Austria, Geza Von Bolvary, 1937). From the Taussig film stills collection.

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Designer Gerdago holds a costume sketch and gazes into the camera, 1930.
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Gerdago
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Costume designer Gerdago (Austria, c1930). From the Taussig film stills collection.

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A soldier rides a white horse, against a backdrop of mountains, in a still from the film The White Devil, 1930.
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The White Devil
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Ivan Mozzhukhin in Der weiße Teufel (AKA The White Devil, Germany, Alexandre Volkoff, 1930). From the Taussig film stills collection.

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Ruth Weyher is held and menaced by a man in an ape suit in a still from the German film A Midsummer Night's Dream, 1925.
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
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Ruth Weyher in A Midsummer Night's Dream (Germany, Hans Neumann, 1925). From the Taussig film stills collection.

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Siegfried is clutching a sword and staring at a crocodile across a pool of water in a still from the film The Nibelungs, 1924.
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Siegfried
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Hanna Ralph in Die Nibelungen: Siegfried (AKA The Nibelungs, Germany, Fritz Lang, 1924). From the Taussig film stills collection.

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Emil Jannings as Faust clutches a small wooden box to his chest in a still from the German film Faust, 1926.
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Faust
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Emil Jannings in Faust - Eine Deutsche Volkssage (Germany, FW Murnau, 1926). From the Taussig film stills collection.

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Anna Sten and Anton Walbrook dressed as circus acrobats in a still from the film Salto Mortale, 1931.
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Anna Sten and Anton Walbrook
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Anna Sten and Anton Walbrook in Salto Mortale (Germany, Ewald André Dupont, 1931). From the Taussig film stills collection.

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A man and woman sit around an outdoor fire, drying their clothes and keeping warm, in a scene from the German film The Silence in the Forest, 1929.
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The Silence in the Forest
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Petta Frederick and Wilhelm Dieterle in Das Schweigen im Walde (AKA The Silence in the Forest, Germany, Wilhelm Dieterle, 1929). From the Taussig film stills collection.

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A man and woman cower in the foreground as a menacing skeleton in a cloak looms over them. A still from the Austrian film Irrlichter der Tiefe, 1923.
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Desolation of the Deep
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Ilse Lorm and Josef Peterhans in Irrlichter der Tiefe (AKA Desolation of the Deep, Austria, Fritz Freisler, 1923). From the Taussig film stills collection.

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A woman kneels in prayer before a statue of the crucifix in a cemetery. A still from the German film Melody of the Heart, 1929.
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Melody of the Heart
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Julia Balog in Melodie des Herzens (AKA Melody of the Heart, Germany, Hans Schwarz, 1929). From the Taussig film stills collection.

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Leni Riefenstahl sits looking out the window in a still from the German film Der Heilige Berg, 1926.
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Leni Riefenstahl
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Leni Riefenstahl in Der Heilige Berg (Germany, Arnold Fanck, 1926). From the Taussig film stills collection.

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A young woman in a white dress and matching hair band stands side-on to the camera, looking downwards, in a still from the film Mädchen in Uniform, 1931.
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Girls in Uniform
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Lore Schuetzendorf in Mädchen in Uniform (Germany, Leontine Sagan, Carl Froelich, 1931). From the Taussig film stills collection.

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The Taussig Film Stills Collection at the NFSA
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The NFSA's Taussig Collection includes thousands of classic European and American film stills and portraits from the beginning of cinema to the 1930s.

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