Nicholas Kaufmann
Production
Biography
Nicholas Kaufmann was a German doctor and film director.
Known For
The perfect body as an object of cult worship. Based on the mass sports and body worship movement of the 1920s, the film propagates physical training and shows in stylized documentary scenes aspects of physical hygiene, gymnastics, sports and dancing as well as scenes in which supposed sportsmen of antiquity pose naked.
Ways to Strength and Beauty
Venereal disease threatens to tear a young couple apart.
Geißel der Menschheit
This short documentary presents an early scientific visualization of X-ray technology, documenting the discovery of Röntgen rays and their application in medical diagnostics. Through staged demonstrations and instructional imagery, the film illustrates the principles of radiographic imaging and its emerging role in modern medicine.
X-rays
This educational film combines medical information and story to teach the viewers about the prevention and treatment of syphilis. The four episodes cover the stories of students looking to pick up prostitutes, a careless medical student, a wet nurse who has infected an infant, and a country girl afraid of seeking treatment.
Falsche Scham
Educational film about the dangers of sexually transmitted diseases.
Die Geschlechtskrankheiten und ihre Folgen
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Natur und Liebe
The short documentary presents the difference between North and South China and also presents footage from several Chinese cities.
Chinesische Städte
Aerial photographs and cityscapes by aviation pioneer Wulf-Dieter Graf zu Castell, who lived in China between 1933 and 1936 and was tasked with setting up an air traffic network for Eurasia.
Unbekanntes China
Short film about light and weather phenomena
Donner, Blitz und Regen
A show booth owner presents "Udine" the mermaid and animals of the sea.
Salon der Meerungeheuer
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Im Lande Widukinds
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Goethe memorial film - 1. The career
Documentary on how the starvation blockade affected the public health.
Die Wirkung der Hungerblockade auf die Volksgesundheit
A German silent documentary film that deals with the controversial and innovative work of Dr. Eugen Steinach, an Austrian physiologist and endocrinologist. The film documents Steinach's research on human biology, particularly his experimental work on the rejuvenation of aging men, which involved a surgical procedure called vasoligation.