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Preferred term

Universum Film  

Synonym(s)

  • UFA
  • UNIVERSUM-FILM AG

Note

  • Date: f.1917

Scope note

  • before 1945 in two locations; film studio popularly called UFA created 18 Dec.1917 in Berlin-Tempelhof, Oberlandstr.(later Viktoriastr.), then part of it moved to Potsdam-Babelsberg, where most of the film production, including the transition from silent to 'talking movies', took place. After WW II the smaller UFA entity in Berlin was gradually rebuilt, while the Potsdam UFA was taken over by the East Germans and renamed becamed DEFA (for Deutscher Film A.G.). The W. Berlin UFA went bankrupt ca.1964 , with the BUFA (Berliner Union Film) taking over film production for tv and movie theaters.

Notation

  • 57035

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URI

http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/BQ7-N322W33M-6

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