The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari was one of the first horror films and one of the first art films meant for a general audience. The radically Expressionist mise-en-scène–the film's most famous feature today–used flat sets set at sharp angles, painted with jagged shards of light and shade behind the actors. This still, one of a pair from Caligari in the Museum's collection, shows the somnambulist Cesare absconding with the heroine Jane.
Artwork Details
- Title: The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
- Artist: Unknown (German)
- Date: ca. 1920
- Medium: Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions: Image: 20.8 x 27.8 cm (8 3/16 x 10 15/16 in.)
- Classification: Photographs
- Credit Line: Gilman Collection, Purchase, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Gift, through Joyce and Robert Menschel, 2005
- Object Number: 2005.100.1063
- Curatorial Department: Photographs
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