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1911-1915

     
     
  1911  
     
    L'Inferno (1911)
     
  22/3 - L’Inferno, Italy’s first full-length feature film (at 71 minutes) is released.   Francesco Bertolini and Adolfo Padovan direct. [MORE] [ADD]
     
     
    Italy 1911: Other Films of Note
     
    La Caduta di Troia
     
   

La Caduta di Troia (Giovanni Pastrone) [MORE] [ADD]

     
   

Gerusalemme liberata (Enrico Guazzoni/Cines) [MORE] [ADD]

     
   

Nozze d’oro (Luigi Maggi) [MORE] [ADD]

     
   

La portatrice di pane (Romolo Bacchini) [MORE] [ADD]

     
     
     
  1912  
     
   
     
  16/4 -

Enrico Guazzoni’s epic 12-reel saga, Quo Vadis? is premiered in Stockholm, Sweden.   The film is made on a grand scale with massive sets and numerous extras. [MORE] [ADD]

     
  5/8 -

Film director Giovanni Pastrone invents the Carello, a device which allows a film camera to be moved around without jolting. [MORE] [ADD]

     
   

– The Ambrosio Film Company wins Grand Prix prize of Ffr 25,000 for After Fifty Years at Film Awards held at the International Exhibition in Turin. [MORE] [ADD]

     
     
     
  1913  
     
  7/2 -

A cinema for the clergy is opened in the Vatican after the pope bans catholic priests from attending public cinemas. [MORE] [ADD]

     
     
    Italy 1913: Other Films of Note
     
   

Addio giovinezza! (Nino Oxilia)  [MORE] [ADD]

 

Marcantonio e Cleopatra (Enrico Guazzoni) [MORE] [ADD]

 

I promessi sposi (Eleuterio Rodolfi) [MORE] [ADD]

 

I promessi sposi (Ubaldo Maria Del Colle/Ernesto Maria Pasquali) [MORE] [ADD]

 

Gli ultimi giorni di Pompei (Eleuterio Rodolfi) [MORE] [ADD]

 

Bonifacio series (Milano) [MORE] [ADD]

 

Checco series (Cines) [MORE] [ADD]

 

Cocciutelli series (Milano) [MORE] [ADD]

 

Cuttica series (Cines) [MORE] [ADD]

 

Dick series (Milano) [MORE] [ADD]

 

Florindo series (Milano) [MORE] [ADD]

 

Fricot series (Ambrosio) [MORE] [ADD]

 

Fringuelli series (Itala) [MORE] [ADD]

 

Gigetta series (Ambrosio) [MORE] [ADD]

 

Kir-Kri series (Cines) [MORE] [ADD]

 

Lea series (Cines) [MORE] [ADD]

 

Polidor series (Pasquali) [MORE] [ADD]

 

Robinet series (Ambrosio) [MORE] [ADD]

 

Tartarin series (Centauro) [MORE] [ADD]

     
     
     
  1914  
     
    Francesca Bertini
     
  24/1 -

Histoire d’un Pierrot, directed by Count Baldassarre Negroni and starring Francesca Bertini, is distributed with music. [MORE] [ADD]

     
    Cabiria (1914)
     
  18/4 -

Giovanni Pastrone’s Cabiria is released in Turin.   The film took six months to shoot and runs for nearly three hours.   Making use of technical accomplishments such as overhead cranes, special effects, lighting and cameras mounted on trolleys, the film resembles nothing that has come before.   The intertitles are written by celebrated writer Gabriele d’Annunzio. [MORE] [ADD]

     
     
     
  1915  
     
    Francesca Bertini
     
   

Nelli the Gigolette, the first of a series of films based on the detective Za la Mort, premieres in Rome.   Emilio Ghione produces the film, which stars Francesca Bertini. [MORE] [ADD]

     
    Luigi Pirandello
     
   

Luigi Pirandello writes Shoot! The Notebooks of Serafino Gubbio, Cinematograph Operator, believed to be the first novel set in the movie industry. [MORE] [ADD]

 

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