Author Archive for: ‘Vreni Hockenjos’

Abstract This essay aims to give a more general introduction to the film-historical context surrounding The Rose of Rhodesia (1918). What was it like to make films in the late 1910s? What was it like to go to the cinema? And what might the film’s first audiences have considered The Rose of Rhodesia’s merits? In an attempt to answer these questions, this essay …