The film was an interlude that ran with the performance of the play Máj (May) directed by E. F. Burian at the Prague D 35 theatre. It was shot on 9.5mm film. During the performances, Jiří Lehovec personally operated the projector, but the copy was destroyed by the projection. Therefore, E. F. Burian had a new version made in 1936. The negative of the film is preserved in the archive of Jiří Lehovec, who had it transcribed at the Research Institute for Sound and Picture Technology in Prague (Výzkumný ústav zvukové a obrazové techniky VÚZORT) onto a VHS cassette. Only non-film media VHS, Beta and digital recordings are preserved in the National Film Archive Prague. The sequence of scenes does not correspond to the original version.
Jiří Lehovec, E. F. Burian (režie divadelního představení)
Karel Hynek Mácha (Máj – báseň)
Máj
Máj
May
film
documentarytheatrical distribution
avant-garde, experimental, film-poem, scenic
Czechoslovakia
1935
1935
premiere 16 April 1935 (divadlo D 35, Praha)
no caption
short film
12 min
9,5mm
9,5mm
1:1,33
black & white
silent
Czech
without dialogue
without subtitles
without subtitles
Czech
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