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== Film career ==
A 1923 trip to New York and a screening of [[D. W. Griffith|D.W. Griffith]]'s ''[[Orphans of the Storm]]'' inspired Ibsen with the potential of filmmaking. He spent the next two years in Los Angeles, working at [[Metro Goldwyn Mayer]] as a handyman, electrician, and finally in the script department.<ref>Nordic National Cinemas, edited by Gunnar Iverson, Astrid Soderbergh Widding, Tytti Soila, page 105</ref>
Ibsen's return to Norway and directoral debut in 1931 was Norway's first feature-length sound film, ''Den store barnedåpen''. Through the 1930s he would "dominate" the nation's film industry,<ref>Nordic National Cinemas, edited by Gunnar Iverson, Astrid Soderbergh Widding, Tytti Soila, page 105</ref> together with [[Leif Sinding]] (1895–1985) . Ibsen produced conventional melodramas more or less on the model of Hollywood films. In 1940 he returned to active military service against [[Operation Weserübung]] but continued to produce films through 1942.<ref>{{cite web|url= https://nbl.snl.no/Leif_Sinding |title =Leif Sinding|website= Norsk biografisk leksikon|access-date=January 1, 2020}}</ref>
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