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Brady Completes Making of Alcott’s “Little Women”

su da theain Cronologia 1918, Film
Little Women 1918
Little Women 1918

November 9, 1918. William A. Brady announces the completion of his picturization of “Little Women” and the bringing to life on the screen of four of the most famous characters in American literature — the four little women — Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy. For forty years Louisa M. Alcott’s famous story has been read and loved the world over. “Little Women” has been translated into more languages than the works Of Dickens, and its appeal continues as strong to-day as it was when first published.

“Little Women” was filmed in and about the actual house in Concord, occupied by the Alcott family, and which has been preserved and stands to-day exactly as it was when “Little Women” was written, thanks to the Alcott Memorial Committee. Every one of the famous characters which will appear on the screen in “Little Women” was passed upon by the surviving members of the Alcott family before a foot of film was taken. The players selected for the various roles met with unqualified approval also of several of the residents of Concord who knew Louisa M. Alcott and the little women of whom she wrote.

The four “Little Women,” Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy. are portrayed respectively by Isabel Lamon, Dorothy Bernard, Lillian and Florence Flinn. Henry Hull is John Brooke and Conrad Nagel is Laurie.

Harley Knoles directed “Little Women.”

The picture is in six reels and is announced for release on a territorial basis.
(Moving Picture World)

Louisa May Alcott’s Site: Orchand House: Home of Little Women

La prima multisala di Roma è del 1914

su da theain Cronologia 1914
Modernissimo
Locandina dell’inaugurazione della multisala Modernissimo (frammento)

Roma, novembre 1914. Inaugurazione del cinema Modernissimo.

Si tratta di un locale centralissimo, assai vasto, decorato ed illuminato con vero sfarzo. Costruito appositamente per gli spettacoli cinematografici, è fornito di due sale gemelle, ciascuna delle quali è capace di circa mille posti a sedere, proporzionatamente ripartiti tra la platea, i palchi e la galleria.

L’orchestra, posta in una specie di cassa armonica, che trovasi tra le due sale, accompagna le proiezioni che in queste si vanno svolgendo simultaneamente.

La Società Romana di Pubblici Spettacoli, che ne ha assunta la gestione, affidandone la Direzione a Bixio Alberini, nipote del Cav. Filoteo Alberini del Cinema Moderno, ha offerto, quale spettacolo d’inaugurazione, il San Marco dell’Ambrosio. Questa film – alla buona riuscita della quale hanno gentilmente concorso, sia il Municipio di Venezia che le Gallerie, i Musei e gl’istituti dello Stato – è destinata certamente, sopratutto per la sua verità storica, a costituire, ovunque si proietti, un avvenimento di non comune valore artistico.

L’Ambrosio può bene a diritto vantare di aver compiuta un’opera vera d’arte. Essa, difatti, nel San Marco, ha voluto dare al mondo la visione intera delle bellezze di Venezia, di quella che Byron definì “il sollievo dei tumulti dell’anima” e Carducci “la religione del cuore” cogliendola nel tempo del suo massimo splendore, allorquando il leone di S. Marco sventolava glorioso sulle spiagge dell’Oriente.

Il San Marco ha avuto la virtù, non certo trascurabile, di tenere, per più giorni di seguito ed a tutto esaurito, lo schermo di questo nuovo cinema, al quale ben si confà l’appellativo di superlativamente moderno.

Cines Rome International Dramatic Competition

su da theain Cronologia 1913, Produzione
cines
Cines trademark by Duilio Cambellotti

The Italian Society “Cines” of Rome, is studying the strongly educative influence of the cinematograph on the people with a view to elevating its productions and has decided to open an international competition for cinematograph dramas with prizes of considerable value. The Honorable Ferdinando Martini, Prof. Albert Besnard, Director of the French Academy at Rome, and the Honorable Vittorio Emanuele Orlando have agreed to head the commission, on which will figure the names of the most conspicuous personalities in the world of art and letters of different countries.

The prizes which will be awarded by the Society “Cines” are as follows : First, 25,000 francs; second, 5,000 francs; third, 2,500 francs; fourth, 1,000 francs; fifth, 500 francs. Other prizes of 100 francs will be awarded as arranged in the conditions.

The competition will be opened in the first days of November, 1913, and will close on April 30, 1914. All those, desiring to compete, can demand the conditions of the competition from the directors of the Italian Society “Cines,” 51 Via Macerata, Rome.