Filoteo Alberini
Filoteo Alberini | |
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Born | |
Died | 12 April 1937 Rome, Lazio Italy | (aged 72)
Occupation(s) | Inventor director |
Years active | 1904–1911 |
Filoteo Alberini (14 March 1867 – 12 April 1937) was an Italian
Biography
Born in Orte, he began working as a handyman in his native town and, after completing the compulsory military service at the Military Engineers Department, he was hired at the Military Geographical Institute of Florence.[1]
In 1894, inspired by
In 1899, Alberini opens the first Italian movie theatre in Florence. In 1904, he opens 'Cinema Moderno', the first movie theatre in Rome.[8]
Fascinated by his new invention and by the new art form, in 1904 Alberini and his friend Dante Santoni founded the Alberini and Santoni First Italian Manufacturing Company, renamed Cines in 1906.[8] Cines was based in Rome.[8]
In 1905 he directs
- 1. The battle of Ponte Milvio
- 2. The rejection of surrender by the pontifical general Hermann Kanzler
- 3. The arrival of the Bersaglieri
- 4. The breach of Porta Pia
- 5. The entrance of the Bersaglieri in the City
- 6. The surrender of Pope Pius IX with the display of the white flag on the St. Peter's Basilica
- 7. The celebrations of Italian troops.
Among Alberini's other inventions there were the 'cinepanoramic' (a revolving lens system that expands the image on the screen, an ancestor of today's
Selected filmography
Director
- La Malia dell'oro (1905)
- Un Colloquio disturbato (1905)
- Ginnastica moderna (1905)
- La Presa di Roma (1905)
- Nell'assenza dei padroni (1905)
- Vendetta di suonatori (1906)
- Pierrot innamorato (1906)
- La Merca del bestiame nell'agro romano (1906)
- Concorso ippico (1906)
- La Cascata delle Marmore presso Terni (1906)
- L'Albero di Natale (1906)
- Visita dei reali di Grecia a Roma (1906)
- Inaugurazione dell'Esposizione di Catania (1907)
Cinematographer
- La presa di Roma (1905)
- Tom Butler (1906)
- Pranzo provvidenziale (1906)
- La pila elettrica (1906)
- La gitana (1906)
- Dopo un veglione (1906)
- Cuore e patria (1906)
- La confessione per telefono (1906)
- Nozze tragiche (1906)
- Il dessert di Lulù (1906)
- Il ratto di una sposa in bicicletta (1906)
- Le ore di una mondana (1906)
- Il pompiere di servizio (1906)
- Onore rusticano (1906)
- Otello (1906)
- Triste giovinezza (1907)
- Povera madre! (1909)
- Don Carlos (1909)
- Messalina (1910)
- Dramma alla frontiera (1910)
Producer
- Raffaello e la Fornarina (1907)
- Siegfried (1909)
- Il piccolo garibaldino (1909)
- Parsifal (1909)
- Lo stretto di Messina (1909)
- Brutus (1911)
References
- ^ a b c "ALBERINI, Filoteo" (in Italian). Retrieved January 10, 2022.
- ^ "Filoteo Alberini". Retrieved January 9, 2022.
- ^ "Fernaldo Di Giammatteo (1999), "Un raggio di sole si accende lo schermo", in I Cineoperatori. La storia della cinematografia italiana dal 1895 al 1940 raccontata dagli autori della fotografia (volume 1°)" (PDF) (in Italian). Archived from the original (PDF) on September 29, 2013. Retrieved January 9, 2022.
- ^ "L'industria cinematografica e la localizzazione delle multisal" (in Italian). Retrieved January 9, 2022.
- JSTOR 3815430.
- ^ "Alberini's kinetograph — Italianmedia".
- ^ "FILOTEO ALBERINI; Invented Motion-Picture Devices—Perfected Miniature Film". The New York Times. April 1, 1937.
- ^ a b c d e "Filoteo Alberini" (in Italian). Retrieved January 10, 2022.
- ^ "Ricorda 1870: la presa di Roma" (in Italian). August 4, 2020. Retrieved January 10, 2022.
- ^ "Il cinematografo in Italia" (in Italian). October 14, 2014. Retrieved January 10, 2022.
- ^ "Filoteo Alberini, l'inventore del cinema" (in Italian). Retrieved January 10, 2022.