Continental-Kunstfilm

Continental, with offices and studios at 123 Chauseestraße, began by releasing a mix of documentaries and comedies, together with serious melodramas by directors such as Max Mack.

The company produced the first feature film about the sinking of the RMS Titanic, (In Nacht und Eis) in August 1912, directed by Mime Misu.

In early 1914 the company constructed a small glasshouse studio in the Berlin suburb of Weißensee where Reicher continued to film many of his 'Stuart Webbs' detective dramas before removing to Munich in 1918.

Fritz Lang used the studios for some sequences of his early productions, and Robert Wiene shot the classic expressionist horror Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari there in 1919.

The building at 123 Chauseestraße still exists, having survived World War II; the studios in Weißensee were demolished in 1928 to make way for residential apartments which are still standing as of 2021.

Schmidthässler and Max Rittberger, an engineer and businessman, signed their partnership agreement on 5 February 1912, with a share capital of 150,000 marks.

The popular 'Bumke' short comedies written, starring and directed by Gerhard Dammann as the eponymous hero appeared throughout 1913, sometimes at the rate of one a week.

His father, Christoph Mülleneisen [de] had signed Asta Nielsen in May 1911 for Deutsche Bioscop (Greenbaum had departed for good in September 1909) and PAGU.

[17] Having formed their own production company, Stuart Webbs-Film GmbH, they made the next in the detective series, Das Panzergewölbe (The Armoured Vault) in June 1914, using Continental-Kunstfilm's studios for the filming.

In the summer of 1914 Continental-Kunstfilm built a new studio at 9 Franz Josef-Straße (now Max Liebermannstraße) in Weißensee, a north-eastern suburb of Berlin.

[18] Decla used the studio during the production of at least three titles: Otto Rippert's historical spectacular 7-reeler Die Pest in Florenz, with a script by Fritz Lang (some interior scenes only); likewise some interiors in Part 2 of Lang's own Die Spinnen; and the whole of Robert Wiene's oppressive horror Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari, from December 1919 to January 1920.

[21] Decla merged in April 1920 with Bioscop-Film (which had been sold by Jules Greenbaum to Carl Schleussner in 1908–09) to form Decla-Bioscop, before being taken over by Ufa in 1921.