Romolo Bacchini

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Romolo Bacchini
File:Romolo Bacchini.jpg
Romolo Bacchini in the 1920s
Born Romolo Bacchini
(1873-09-13)13 September 1873
Rome, Italy
Died 27 March 1938(1938-03-27)
Rome, Italy
Occupation Director, musician, writer, painter
Years active 1893–1938
Spouse(s) Cleofe Salvetti (1882–1964)

Romolo Bacchini, also credited as Bachini (Rome, 13 September 1873 – Rome, 27 March 1938) was a filmmaker, musician, painter and Italian dialect poet, who spent his career during the silent movies era.

The cinema

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

He was one of the pioneers of Italian silent cinema. Director of over fifty films, he played the role of actor in some movies. In 1909 he moved to Naples, where the fledgling movie company Vesuvio Films 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), one of the first Italian movies to be set in the Middle Ages.[1]

Back in Rome, he went on acting as a director, making dozens of films. Some movies 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 MICS (International museum of film and entertainment), in 1988.

In 1936 – as art director for CAIR (Cartoni Animati Italiani Roma) – he directed The Adventures of Pinocchio, which is believed to be the first cartoon movie dedicated to the novel by Carlo Collodi.[2]

Complete Filmography

Directed movies

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

Director of photography

Starred movies

Music

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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 in Naples, and was a composer (he wrote several operas), director and conductor of the orchestra.[3] 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).[4][5][6][7] At that time, having not yet been adopted the synchronized sound to images, music from the orchestra were performed directly in the movie hall.

List of musical works (partial)

Directed operas

  • Wanda (Fermo, Teatro dell'Aquila, 27 agosto 1896, libretto by Enrico Golisciani)
  • Elki lo zingaro (Roma, Teatro Quirino, 12 luglio 1899, libretto by Augusto Turchi)
  • L'abito fa il monaco (Parigi, Teatre Europeen, 22 maggio 1902, choreography by Rossi)
  • Estropiados (Marsiglia, 7 novembre 1902, choreography by Gautier, Rossi e Trave)
  • Aprile d'amore (Roma, Teatro Argentina, 25 marzo 1905, libretto by Augusto Turchi)
  • Incantesimo (lyrics by Conte di Lara, pseudonym of Domenico Milelli, music by Romolo Bacchini)

Poetry

Contemporary and friend of poet and writer Augo Jandolo, with him he was part of the "Gruppo dei Romanisti" as well as other intellectuals and artists who, during the charming times of Caffé Greco, animated the cultural salons of Rome. He wrote many poetical compositions, revealing himself as particularly inclined into poems, verses and sonnets in Roman dialect. In 1929 he wrote "Er Natale de Roma",[8][9] a poem in blank verse and quatrains, all in Roman dialect, dealing with the birth of Rome and illustrated by the painter-ceramicist Romeo Berardi.

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