Abstract
Given the sprawling Central European nature of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Austrian film has been transcultural since its inception and has remained so throughout its history. The first Austrians to produce feature films were the team of Louise Veltée (also known as Louise Kolm and Louise Fleck), her husband, Anton Kolm, and their cameraman, Jakob Julius Fleck, and it was their efforts, beginning in 1906, that mark the beginning of a mainstream, Vienna-based Austrian film industry. Traditionally, however, Count Alexander Kolowrat-Krakowsky, known as Sascha Kolowrat, has been labelled the father of the Austrian film industry because of his business successes and discovery of film talent, and early Austrian erotic films have been discovered that predate the Veltée-Kolm productions.
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Dassanowsky, R. (2015). Austria. In: Nelmes, J., Selbo, J. (eds) Women Screenwriters. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137312372_22
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