Cines
Cines was an Italian film production company . Along with Ambrosio and Itala, it was one of the most important film companies in early Italian film .
It was founded in 1905 as the first major film studio in Italy by Filoteo Alberini and Dante Santoni under the name "Alberini & Santoni" in Rome and from 1906 it was run under the name "Società italiana Cines". With the film La presa di Roma (1905), Cines created the prototype of the Italian historical film , as it shaped the international film market up to the beginning of the First World War.
The greatest international success was Quo vadis? Produced in 1912 and published in 1913 . by Enrico Guazzoni . This led to the other large-scale productions Marcantonio e Cleopatra (1913) and Cajus Julius Caesar (1914) under the same director.
In 1919 Cines merged into the "Unione Cinematografica Italiana" and in 1923 it finally stopped production.
literature
- Ivo Blom Cines . In Richard Abel: Encyclopedia of Early Cinema , New York 2010, p. 127 f. ISBN 0415778565
- Riccardo Redi La Cines. Storia di una casa di produione italiana , Rome 1990, ISBN 978-88-96013-04-5
- Kimberly Tomadjoglou Rome's premiere film studio: Società Italiana Cines . In Film History , 12.3: pp. 262-275