Piccola vedetta lombarda, La
(1915)
Director: Vittorio Rossi-Pianelli – Director of photography: Giacomo Farò – Production: Film Artistica “Gloria”, Torino – Original lenght: 290 m – Lenght: 121 m – Intertitles: Italian – Censorship certificate: 9967, 12/6/1915 – Première: 12/12/1915 –

Cast: Luciano Petrungaro (la vedetta/the look-out), Antonio Monti (un ufficiale/an official)

The film:

"Vedetta Lombarda is one of the tales of the novel  Cuore (Edmondo De Amicis, 1886), that mainly touches and exalts. The heroic act of the Lombard child, sublime in its great simplicity, cannot and will never be able to be deleted from the mind of any reader or spectator."

 

[From the original reviews on Italian silent cinema Serie Cuore - La piccola vedetta lombarda, in “Film”, y. II, n. 34, 29 November 1915, p. 16 - Museo Nazionale del Cinema di Torino, Coll. / Online collections: Documents from Torino's era of silent films: http://www.museocinema.it/collezioni/Muto.aspx]

 

The film restoration:

The preservation of La piccola vedetta lombarda was carried out by the Museo Nazionale del Cinema di Torino, from a fragment of a nitrate copy that was bought in 1943. A dupe negative and a positive print were printed on safety film from the nitrate print.

The preservation work was carried out in 1998 at the Haghefilm laboratory in Amsterdam.

 

Link Vimeo Cineteca MNC:

https://vimeo.com/113495925

 



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