The bound Kino-Riport
Status: missing
Premiere: 17 November 1913 (newsreel No. 1.)
Pesti Napló, 15 November 1913)
Background to film report:
Date:
3 pm 5 November 1913
Location:
In front of Parliament, Budapest
Event:
An over-zealous young police inspector became engaged in a heated argument with Aladár Fodor, one of the founders of Kino-Riport, in front of Parliament. Fodor wanted to film the departing members of parliament from a hackney-carriage for his newsreel. The inspector, who stopped the filming, dragged Fodor out of the carriage and had police officers bind Fodor – who, citing his rights, resisted arrest – and the reporter was bundled away to the police station at Vadász Street in the V. district amidst a mass of pedestrians expressing their indignation at the arrest.
Cameraman:
It is almost certain that cameraman Lajos Szőnyi who was also there filmed the incident.
Kino-Riport footage:
“The police brutality committed by police inspector Béla Jánossi against one of the owners of Kino-Riport, the journalist Aladár Fodor, an employee of Pesti Napló, in front of the National Assembly, advertised the Hungarian film newspaper nationally, about the foundation of which we would like to inform our audience. The dailies marked the grievance suffered by Aladár Fodor in articles expressing their greatest indignation. The incident happened exactly when he was making motion picture photographs for Kino-Riport. (…) we get a picture of the bound Aladár Fodor being bundled away to the police station.”
Photographs relevant to the event:
Tolnai Világlapja, 16 November 1913, Érdekes Ujság, 30 November 1913
Source:
Az Ujság, 1913. november 6.
Világ, 1913. november 6.
Magyarország, 1913. november 6.
Mozi-Világ, 1913. november 16.