Tobis Film was a German film production and film distribution company . Founded in the late 1920s as a merger of several companies involved in the switch from silent to sound films , the organisation emerged as a leading German sound studio. Tobis used the Tri-Ergon sound-on-film system under the Tobis-Klang trade name. The UFA production company had separate rights to the Tobis system, which it used under the trade name of Ufa-Klang. Some Tobis films were released in Germany by the subsidiary Europa Film .
6-658: Its principal production studios were the Johannisthal Studios in Berlin . During the Nazi era , Tobis was one of the four major film companies along with Terra Film , Bavaria Film and UFA . In 1942 all these companies were merged into a single state-controlled industry bringing an end to Tobis' independent existence, though films continued to be released under the Tobis banner. From 1933 until 1938, Tobis controlled
12-459: A film production company or film distributor is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Johannisthal Studios The Johannisthal Studios were film studios located in the Berlin area of Johannisthal . Founded in 1920 on the site of a former airfield , they were a centre of production during the Weimar and Nazi eras . Nearly four hundred films were made at Johannistal during
18-590: The silent period . The first production was the 1920 silent Verkommen starring Maria Zelenka . Sometimes known as the Jofa Studios , in 1929 they became the base of the newly established German major studio Tobis Film at the beginning of the sound era . After 1945 the studios fell into the Soviet Zone of Germany, and later into the Communist state of East Germany . The studios were used by
24-551: The 1930s. Among the directors under contract to the company was René Clair who produced the films Under the Roofs of Paris and Le Million during the early sound era. One of the studio's employees Horst Wendlandt later (1971) founded a new distribution company which is also known as Tobis Entertainment . In 2016, the present-day Tobis became an investor in Globalgate Entertainment. This article about
30-578: The dominant Austrian producer Sascha-Film which was known as Tobis-Sascha . From 1932, it also owned a majority share of one of the main Portuguese producers known as Tobis Portuguesa , a name which the company kept even after the German participation was terminated at the end of world War II. Tobis established a Paris subsidiary and produced French-language film at the Epinay Studios during
36-595: The new monopoly film company DEFA . Although the first postwar German film The Murderers Are Among Us was shot at Johannisthal, they were used less than the Babelsberg Studios in Potsdam . It was often used for dubbing foreign films into German for their release. From the 1960s East German television increasingly used the site. Following the fall of the Berlin Wall the studios were acquired by
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