Fifty years of Italian cinema (1955)

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Record Details:

Title:
Fifty years of Italian cinema
Date:
1955
Publisher:
Rome : Carlo Bestetti
Volume:
Fifty years of Italian cinema
Leaf #:
00057
Language:
English
Collection:
Books and Italy
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Date Added:
May 02, 2025
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:ix ANDRE DEED THE FIRST FILM COMEDIES Even if the Commedia dell'Arte, with its traditions of improvisation, was the basis of our cinema, the first comedians in Italy were of French origin, while those whom the French tradition inspired included Tontolini (Fernando Guillaume, later known as Polidor), Cretinetti (Andre Deed), Robinet (Marcel Fabre), Toto (Emilio Verdannes). It is impossible to speak of an Italian comic style; the sources are Parisian: the world of the vaudeville, the music hall and the circus, with their jokes, stunts and absurd adventures. This is the world that a highly amused Rene Clair was later to observe so brilliantly. Cretinetti al cinema (Gribouille au Cinema Cretinetti at the Cinema Cretinetti geht ins Kino) Int. Andre Deed (1909).