Domenico Scala (cameraman)

Domenico Scala (born March 26, 1903 in Turin , Italy , † December 25, 1989 in Italy) was an Italian cameraman .

Live and act

Scala received his photography training in the 1920s and initially worked as a camera assistant and simple cameraman during the silent film era . Since 1931 he can be proven as chief cameraman. In this role, he photographed an abundance of entertainment films from the Mussolini era, which were directed by experienced directors such as Mario Camerini , Guido Brignone , Nunzio Malasomma , Gennaro Righelli , Luigi Zampa Mario Bonnard and the regime favorite Goffredo Alessandrini . Artistically, only the only feature film by the German documentarist Walter Ruttmann , Acciaio - Arbeit macht Glück , made at the end of 1932 , and the forerunner of the neorealist cinema Ossessione - Obsessed by love by the young director Luchino Visconti , shot in 1942 , with Scala at the side of his colleague Aldo Tonti took over the picture guidance.

Ossessione (1942) with Clara Calamai and Massimo Girotti . At the camera: Domenico Scala

Even before the end of the war in 1945, along with the fall of the "Duce", Domenico Sala was able to continue his briefly interrupted work as a cameraman undiminished. Born in Turin, he and his Czech colleague Václav Vich received the Italian film prize Nastro d'Argento in 1947 for his work on Mario Soldati's film adaptation of Daniele Cortis . Scala's other post-war films are, apart from two collaborations with the directors Renato Castellani (the time image from the transition from World War II to Peace Under the Sun of Rome ) and Luciano Emmer (the semi-documentary everyday story A Sunday in August ), artistically largely insignificant. In 1949 Scala brought together a collaboration with the South Tyrolean filmmaker Luis Trenker ( duel in the mountains ). In the course of the 1960s, Domenico Scala gradually withdrew from active camera work.

Filmography

• 1931: La segretaria privata
• 1932: The Celestial Fleet (L'armata azzurra)
• 1932: Gli uomini, che mascalzoni!
• 1933: work makes you happy ( Acciaio )
• 1933: Fanny
• 1934: Ragazzo
• 1934: Seconda B
• 1936: The big roll call (Il grande appello)
• 1937: Gli ultimi giorni di Pompeo
• 1938: Il destino in tasca
• 1938: L'ultimo scugnizzo
• 1938: Fuochi d'artificio
• 1939: La voce senza volto
• 1939: Il barone di Corbò
• 1939: Il cavaliere di San Marco
• 1940: Il ladro sono io
• 1940: Scarpe large
• 1941: Le due tigre
• 1941: L'attore scomparso
• 1942: Signorinette
• 1942: Ossessione - Obsessed with love ( Ossessione )
• 1943: Tre ragazze cercano marito
• 1944: Processo delle Zitelle
• 1945: Vivere ancora
• 1945: La signora è servita
• 1945: Porte chiuse
• 1946: L'angelo e il diavolo
• 1947: Daniele Cortis
• 1948: Escape to France ( Fuga in Francia )
• 1948: Under the Sun of Rome (Sotto il sole di Roma)
• 1949: A Sunday in August ( Domenica d'agosto )
• 1949: Duel in the mountains ( Barriera a Settentrione )
• 1950: Sangue sul sagrato
• 1951: Falsari
• 1951: Miracolo a viggiù
• 1952: Io, Amleto
• 1953: Dangerous Beauty ( La provinciale )
• 1953: We women (Siamo donne)
• 1953: Sun in the eyes ( Il sole negli occhi )
• 1954: Violence at the lake ( Violenza sul lago )
• 1954: Totò e Carolina
• 1956: Sangue di Zingara
• 1957: Io, Caterina
• 1960: Un eroe del nostro tempo
• 1962: Maciste against the bounty hunters ( Maciste contro i cacciatori di teste )
• 1967: His profile is not an image of a saint (El hombre que mató a Billy el Niño) (only second-unit cameraman)

literature

• International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF) (ed.): Direttori di Fotografia, Scenografi i Costumisti del Cinema Italiano. Vol. 7: Italia. KG Saur-Verlag, Munich 1988, p. 344 ff.

Web links

• Domenico Scala in the Internet Movie Database (English)