Pasquali Film was an Italian

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company of the

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. Founded in 1909 in

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by Ernesto Maria Pasquali, it was later merged into the Unione Cinematografica Italiana in 1919, before closing completely in 1924. It enjoyed its greatest period of success before the

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. In 1910, it hired the French comedian

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who starred in a series of short comedies.Stam & Raengo p.116

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Bibliography

* Robert Stam & Alessandra Raengo. ''A Companion to Literature and Film''. John Wiley & Sons, 2008. Film production companies of Italy {{IT-film-company-stub