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The Bandit Of Port Avon
''The Bandit of Port Avon'' (Italian:''Il bandito di Port-Aven'') is a 1914 Italian silent film directed by Roberto Roberti and starring Bice Valerian.Bertellini p.368 It was made by the Turin-based Aquila Films. Cast * Giuseppe De Witten * Giulio Donadio * Roberto Roberti * Bice Valerian * Oreste Visalli * Claudia Zambuto References Bibliography * Giorgio Bertellini Giorgio Bertellini an Italian-American media historian who specializes in the ways national and racial diversity informed American cinema's representation of citizenship, stardom, and leadership during the era of migrations, fascism, and World .... ''Italy in Early American Cinema: Race, Landscape, and the Picturesque''. Indiana University Press, 2010. External links * 1914 films 1910s Italian-language films Films directed by Roberto Roberti Italian silent feature films Italian black-and-white films {{Italy-silent-film-stub ...
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Roberto Roberti
Vincenzo Leone (24 July 1879 – 10 January 1959), known professionally as Roberto Roberti, was an Italian actor, screenwriter and film director. He made over sixty films, mostly during the silent era. He was married to the actress Bice Valerian. Their son Sergio Leone became a celebrated director. During the 1910s Roberti made a number of films for the Turin-based Aquila Films, often featuring his wife in a leading role. He then moved to Caesar Film where he directed eighteen films starring the diva Francesca Bertini. Selected filmography * '' Tower of Terror'' (1913) * '' Indian Vampire'' (1913) * '' The Mystery of St. Martin's Bridge'' (1913) * '' The Princess of Bedford'' (1914) * ''The Bandit of Port Avon'' (1914) * '' The Danube Boatman'' (1914) * ''Theodora'' (1914) * ''Darkness'' (1916) * ''The Sinful Woman'' (1916) * ''The Cavalcade of Dreams '' (1917) * '' Eugenia Grandet'' (1918) * '' The Conqueror of the World'' (1919) * ''Countess Sarah'' (1919) * '' The Cheerful ...
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Bice Valerian
Bice Valerian (born Edvige Maria Valcarenghi, 8 May 1886 – 1969) Birth name: Edvige Maria Valcarenghi. was an Italian film actress of the silent era. She was the wife of the actor and director Roberto Roberti and the mother of Sergio Leone. Selected filmography * '' The Mystery of St. Martin's Bridge'' (1913) * '' Tower of Terror'' (1913) * '' Indian Vampire'' (1913) * ''The Bandit of Port Avon'' (1914) * '' The Princess of Bedford'' (1914) * '' The Danube Boatman'' (1914) * ''Theodora'' (1914) * ''The Cavalcade of Dreams ''The Cavalcade of Dreams'' (Italian:''La cavalcata dei sogni'') is a 1917 Italian silent film directed by Roberto Roberti and starring Bice Valerian.Moscati p.47 Cast * Piera Bouvier * Antonietta Calderari * Roberto Roberti * Domenico Serra ...'' (1917) References External links * 1886 births 1969 deaths Italian silent film actresses 20th-century Italian actresses Actresses from Rome Italian people of Lombard descent Italian people of Au ...
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Aquila Films
Aquila Films was a Turin-based Italian film production and distribution company of the silent era. It was formed in 1907. The company produced many crime and mystery films, promoting them in a sensationalist way. The company's production expanded rapidly - rising from five films in 1907 to seventy three by 1911. Aquila established strong links with foreign distributors in Britain and France, and enjoyed commercial success in foreign markets. In 1909 it took part in the Paris Film Congress, a failed attempt to create a cartel of leading European producers. It was badly hit by the outbreak of the First World War which closed many of its profitable export markets to it. The company had folded by 1917.Abel p.31 Amongst the directors who worked most frequently at the studio was Roberto Roberti who made several films featuring his actress wife Bice Valerian Bice Valerian (born Edvige Maria Valcarenghi, 8 May 1886 – 1969) Birth name: Edvige Maria Valcarenghi. was an Italian film a ...
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Italian Language
Italian (''italiano'' or ) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire. Together with Sardinian, Italian is the least divergent language from Latin. Spoken by about 85 million people (2022), Italian is an official language in Italy, Switzerland (Ticino and the Grisons), San Marino, and Vatican City. It has an official minority status in western Istria (Croatia and Slovenia). Italian is also spoken by large immigrant and expatriate communities in the Americas and Australia.Ethnologue report for language code:ita (Italy)
– Gordon, Raymond G., Jr. (ed.), 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Fifteenth edition. Dallas, Tex.: SIL International. Online version
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Silent Film
A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound (or more generally, no audible dialogue). Though silent films convey narrative and emotion visually, various plot elements (such as a setting or era) or key lines of dialogue may, when necessary, be conveyed by the use of title cards. The term "silent film" is something of a misnomer, as these films were almost always accompanied by live sounds. During the silent era that existed from the mid-1890s to the late 1920s, a pianist, theater organist—or even, in large cities, a small orchestra—would often play music to accompany the films. Pianists and organists would play either from sheet music, or improvisation. Sometimes a person would even narrate the inter-title cards for the audience. Though at the time the technology to synchronize sound with the film did not exist, music was seen as an essential part of the viewing experience. "Silent film" is typically used as a historical term to describe an era of cinema pri ...
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Turin
Turin ( , Piedmontese language, Piedmontese: ; it, Torino ) is a city and an important business and cultural centre in Northern Italy. It is the capital city of Piedmont and of the Metropolitan City of Turin, and was the first Italian capital from 1861 to 1865. The city is mainly on the western bank of the Po (river), Po River, below its Susa Valley, and is surrounded by the western Alps, Alpine arch and Superga Hill. The population of the city proper is 847,287 (31 January 2022) while the population of the urban area is estimated by Larger Urban Zones, Eurostat to be 1.7 million inhabitants. The Turin metropolitan area is estimated by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, OECD to have a population of 2.2 million. The city used to be a major European political centre. From 1563, it was the capital of the Duchy of Savoy, then of the Kingdom of Sardinia ruled by the House of Savoy, and the first capital of the Kingdom of Italy from 1861 to 1865. T ...
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Giuseppe De Witten
Giuseppe is the Italian form of the given name Joseph, from Latin Iōsēphus from Ancient Greek Ἰωσήφ (Iōsḗph), from Hebrew יוסף. It is the most common name in Italy and is unique (97%) to it. The feminine form of the name is Giuseppina. People with the given name Artists and musicians * Giuseppe Aldrovandini (1671–1707), Italian composer * Giuseppe Arcimboldo (1526 or 1527–1593), Italian painter * Giuseppe Belli (singer) (1732–1760), Italian castrato singer * Giuseppe Gioachino Belli (1791–1863), Italian poet * Giuseppe Castiglione (1829–1908) (1829–1908), Italian painter * Giuseppe Giordani (1751–1798), Italian composer, mainly of opera * Giuseppe Ottaviani (born 1978), Italian musician and disc jockey * Giuseppe Psaila (1891–1960), Maltese Art Nouveau architect * Giuseppe Sammartini (1695–1750), Italian composer and oboist * Giuseppe Sanmartino or Sammartino (1720–1793), Italian sculptor * Giuseppe Santomaso (1907–1990), Italian painter * Giu ...
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Giulio Donadio
Giulio Donadio (5 July 1889 – 15 June 1951) was an Italian actor and film director. Donadio appeared in over forty films between 1912 and 1947, including the historical melodrama ''Red Passport'' (1935).Landy p.155 He also directed several films during the silent era. Selected filmography * ''The Danube Boatman'' (1914) * ''The Bandit of Port Avon'' (1914) * ''Full Speed (1934 film), Full Speed'' (1934) * ''Villafranca (film), Villafranca'' (1934) * ''Red Passport'' (1935) * ''A Woman Between Two Worlds'' (1936) * ''The Anonymous Roylott'' (1936) * ''Manon Lescaut (1940 film), Manon Lescaut'' (1940) * ''Eternal Melodies'' (1940) * ''Inspector Vargas'' (1940) * ''The Happy Ghost (1941 film), The Happy Ghost'' (1941) * ''Beatrice Cenci (1941 film), Beatrice Cenci'' (1941) * ''L'attore scomparso'' (1941) * ''The Prisoner of Santa Cruz'' (1941) * ''Labbra serrate'' (1942) * ''Life of Donizetti'' (1947) References External links * Bibliography

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Oreste Visalli
''Oreste'' ("Orestes", HWV A11, HG 48/102) is an opera by George Frideric Handel in three acts. The libretto was anonymously adapted from Giangualberto Barlocci’s ''L’Oreste'' (1723, Rome), which was in turn adapted from Euripides' ''Iphigeneia in Tauris''.Hicks The opera is a ''pasticcio'' (pastiche), meaning that the music of the arias was assembled from earlier works, mainly other operas and cantatas also by Handel. The recitatives and parts of the dances are the only parts composed specifically for this work. Handel had put together similar works before, fitting the music of pre-existent arias to new words, but this was the first time he had made an opera in this way using entirely his own music. He assembled a collection of his arias from the previous years, ranging from '' Agrippina'' of 1709 to ''Sosarme'' of 1732, binding the pre-existent music seamlessly together with the newly-written recitatives to create a new musical drama. The opera is in Italian, although it ...
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Claudia Zambuto
Claudia Zambuto (23 March 1885–?) was an Italian film actress of the silent era.Goble p.308 Selected filmography * ''Fedora'' (1913) * ''La belva della mezzanotte'' (1913) * ''The Princess of Bedford'' (1914) * ''The Bandit of Port Avon'' (1914) * ''The Danube Boatman'' (1914) * '' When Knights Were Bold'' (1916) * ''Maciste the Policeman ''Maciste the Policeman'' (Italian:''Maciste poliziotto'') is a 1918 Italian silent film directed by Roberto Roberti and starring Bartolomeo Pagano and Claudia Zambuto.Reich p.140 Cast * Bartolomeo Pagano as Maciste * Italia Almirante-Manzini ...'' (1918) References Bibliography * Goble, Alan. ''The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film''. Walter de Gruyter, 1999. External links * 1885 births Year of death missing Italian film actresses Italian silent film actresses 20th-century Italian actresses {{Italy-film-actor-stub ...
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Giorgio Bertellini
Giorgio Bertellini an Italian-American media historian who specializes in the ways national and racial diversity informed American cinema's representation of citizenship, stardom, and leadership during the era of migrations, fascism, and World War II. He is currently Professor in the Department of Film, Television, and Media at the University of Michigan. Life Born in Mantua, Italy, Bertellini studied philosophy at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore and earned his Ph.D. in cinema studies at New York University Tisch School of the Arts. He moved to the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 2001 as a Junior Fellow in the Michigan Society of Fellows and is currently Professor in the Department of Film, Television, and Media at the same institution with a courtesy appointment in the Department of Romance Languages. He was the Sargent-Faull Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies (2007-08) and a Tiro a Segno Fellow in New York University's Italian Studie ...
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1914 Films
The year 1914 in film involved some significant events, including the debut of Cecil B. DeMille as a director.Birchard, Robert S. (2004). ''Cecil B. DeMille's Hollywood''. Lexington, Kentucky: The University Press of Kentucky, p. 1-13, __TOC__ Events * February 2 – Charlie Chaplin's first film, ''Making a Living'' is released. * February 7 – Release of Charlie Chaplin's second film, the Keystone comedy '' Kid Auto Races at Venice'', in which his character of The Tramp is introduced to audiences (although first filmed in ''Mabel's Strange Predicament'', released two days later). * February 8 – Winsor McCay's ''Gertie the Dinosaur'' greatly advances filmed animation movement techniques. * February 10 – Release of the film '' Hearts Adrift''; the name of Mary Pickford, the star, is displayed above the title on movie marquees. * February – Lewis J. Selznick and Arthur Spiegel organize the World Film Corporation, a distributor of independently produced films located in For ...
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