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Stanley D. Reid
Sergeant
Username: Sreid
Post Number: 14
Registered: 4-2005
| | Posted on Saturday, April 16, 2005 - 1:25 pm: | 
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Greetings
Although it probably doesn't qualify as a true Ripper movie, the 1907 Edwin S. Porter film, "Jack the Kisser", surely was inspired by Jaunty Jackie at the very least as a parody in the title. Do you think there are any earlier productions that might have been influenced by our subject?
Regards,
Stan |
Chris Scott
Assistant Commissioner
Username: Chris
Post Number: 1913
Registered: 4-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, April 16, 2005 - 3:56 pm: |
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Hi Stan
This would appear to be the case as I found this comment:
Jack the Kisser involves a considerably higher degree of narrative motivation, and yet simultaneously provides a wider variety of spectacles than can be found in its generic predecessors. I will also investigate the ways in which the film opens up men's ambivalent and problematic attitudes toward women in public spaces in a more overt and less monolithic way than in earlier films such as Personal and Meet Me at the Fountain. I will suggest that this is largely because Jack the Kisser is heavily informed by the 1888 `Jack the Ripper' murders - working both to reflect and deflect fears about modern(ist) sexuality dangers highlighted and heightened by those murders and the publicity surrounding them.
More about this at
http://www.nmsi.ac.uk/nmpft/film100/panel8d.htm |
Chris Scott
Assistant Commissioner
Username: Chris
Post Number: 1914
Registered: 4-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, April 16, 2005 - 4:01 pm: |
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Here are the details of a 1909 film that may be of interest as well:
Berlin Jack the Ripper
Release date: 18 October 1909
Duration in feet: 445 to 500
Production Company: Comerio
Distribution Company: Empire Film Co.
Country: Italy
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Stanley D. Reid
Sergeant
Username: Sreid
Post Number: 15
Registered: 4-2005
| | Posted on Saturday, April 16, 2005 - 4:27 pm: |
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Hi Chris
Yes, I've done a little investigation into "Berlin Jack the Ripper" although, going only by the title, I mistakenly, at first, believed it to be German rather than Italian. Perhaps it's a proto-giallo film.
Thanks for the input.
Stan |
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