ITA240Y1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Ugo Falena, Nextdoor, Mario Caserini
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The beginnings of film stardom and the print media of divismo: eugenio ferdinando palmieri, was the first italian to attempt a history of early cinema in italy describes the difficulties he faced: A precise and conclusive history of our old cinema - silent theatre, they used to call it - it is not possible. A more attentive judgement on those films, almost all of them gone to the slaughter house, is not permitted: it is necessary to trust in memory, in the. Impressions" of the time; and the information gathered is not sufficient. The subject matter, as they call i, is extremely vast : he goes to mention: A weekly publication from rome comes to my assistance, il tirso al cinematografo, heir, perhaps, of il tirso, a literacy and theatrical gazette of luca cortese. I found a few issues from 1916 at a bookstall. The old cinema, by now, is there on the bookstalls .
