Wednesday, July 02, 2008

Cento anni fà: i film del 1908: 9: Italia 1908 - catastrofi

Curated by Luigi Virgolin. Grand piano: Antonio Coppola. Viewed in Bologna, Cinema Lumière 1, 2 July 2008.
Tremblement de terre de Messine. FR 1909. PC: Pathé. Newsreel on the terrible earthquake of Messina and Reggio Calabria: the ruins.
L'orfanella di Messina / Die Waise von Messina. IT 1909. PC: Ambrosio. D: Giovanni Vitrotti. Fiction: a lost child replaced by an orphan from Messina.
Cocò e il terremoto. FR 1910. A funny farce of Cocò's terrible nightmares of earthquakes.
Gli ultimi giorni di Pompei. IT 1908. PC: Ambrosio. D: Luigi Maggi. Starring Lydia De Roberti. An impressive NFM print with strong colours of the first significant film adaptation of the Bulwer-Lytton novel.
Visit to Pompei. FR [1913?]. Newsreel of the contemporary Pompei site.

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