Romolo Bacchini

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Born
Romolo Bachini

(1872-04-11)11 April 1872
Rome, Italy
Died(1938-03-27)27 March 1938
Rome, Italy
Occupation(s)Director, musician, writer, painter
Yearsactive1893–1938
Romolo Bacchini
Romolo Bacchini in the 1920s
Born
Romolo Bachini

(1872-04-11)11 April 1872
Rome, Italy
Died(1938-03-27)27 March 1938
Rome, Italy
Occupation(s)Director, musician, writer, painter
Years active1893–1938

Romolo Bacchini, also credited as Bachini (11 April 1872 – 27 March 1938)[1] was a filmmaker, musician, painter and Italian dialect poet, who spent his career during the silent film era.

The processing of the cartoon "The Adventures of Pinocchio".

Born Romolo Bachini in Rome, Bacchini, as he later spelled it, was one of the pioneers of Italian silent cinema, directing, and sometimes acting in, more than 50 films. Some have been lost while others were recovered and restored, such as La leggenda dell'edelweiss, of which coils and the original screenplay have been found by researchers of the Museo internazionale del cinema e dello spettacolo [it] (MICS) (International museum of film and entertainment), in 1988.

In 1909 he moved to Naples, where the fledgling movie company Vesuvio Films [it] gave him the artistic direction of its productions. In the capital of Campania he directed many of his movies, among them the historical short film Corradino di Svevia (L'ultimo degli Hohenstaufen) [it], one of the first Italian movies to be set in the Middle Ages.[2]

In 1936, as art director for CAIR (Cartoni Animati Italiani Roma), he directed The Adventures of Pinocchio, which is believed to be the first animated film dedicated to the novel by Carlo Collodi.[3]

Complete filmography

Directed movies

"Lo Spettro Vendicatore" (1914), in which Romolo Bacchini played both as actor and director.
Wearing top in "Lo Spettro Vendicatore" (1914).
The playbill of "La portatrice di pane" (1911).

Director of photography

Starred movies

Music

An advertising playbill for the operetta "L'incognita dell'oasi" (1920 ca.).

He graduated in composition and direction at the Conservatorio di San Pietro a Majella [it] in Naples, and was a composer (he wrote several operas), director and conductor of the orchestra.[4] He wrote plenty of accompanying music for films and was the first musician in the history of cinema to have composed – in 1905 – specifically created music to accompany a movie ("La Malìa dell'oro", by Filoteo Alberini).[5][6][7][8]

List of musical works (partial)

Poetry

References

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