Introduction
The beginning of colonial film culture in Imperial Germany. From the variety theatre to the German colonial society
Carl Muller: a colonial film maker
The DKG's film shows: the colonies in motion
Addressing the masses. The 'Hottentot election' of 1907
The DKG's Kinematographenkampagne
Rise and fall of the Kinemtographenkampagne
Ethnographic filmmaking in the colonies
Karl Weule in German East Africa
The expedition in context: modern German ethnography
Filming in the Colonies: Training and Improvisation
Tourism, Entertainment, and Colonial Ideology. Colonial Films in Public Cinema
The colonial travelogue
Colonial films in transition: Robert Schumann's comeback
Colonial film propaganda during the First World War. Setting up colonial war propaganda
The Deutsche Kolonial-filmgesellschaft (DEUKO)
Conclusion.