Esperanto and Cinema. Part One

Sadly, the only Esperanto event filmed during those five years of carnage was the funeral of Zamenhof himself in 1917. The newsreel was shown in Warsaw cinemas.

After that there is a long gap (in my knowledge, at least) and I cannot find anything else to do with Esperanto and Cinema until Jan Fethke began to really make his presence felt in 1931. But I have so much to say about Jan Fethke, better known to Esperantists as Jean Forge, that I will have to devote an entire Topic article to him.

Join me in two weeks to learn more about this very talented author and film-maker!

(Acknowledgement. Some of the information contained in this and in some subsequent Topic articles has been derived from an essay called Filmo en la Historio de Esperanto written by Arpad Abonyi-Nagy. It was published in the May 1982 issue of the journal Monato. More recent issues of this journal can be consulted here: http://www.esperanto.be/monato/index.html )

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