Filoteo Alberini

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Filoteo Alberini (* 14. March 1867 in places , Papal States , today Lazio , Italy ; † 12. April 1937 in Rome , Italy) was an Italian engineer , inventor and filmmaker .

As a result, after serving in the army in Padua , where a superior supported his skills as a photographer, Alberini was employed as an engineer at the Istituto Geografico Militare . In 1891 he received a gold medal for his phototechnical developments for the reproduction of maps . After coming into contact with the kinetoscope in 1894 , he developed his own kinetograph , a combined camera with projector and printer, which received an Italian patent on November 11, 1895. However, there is no evidence that a functioning machine could ever be produced.

Alberini became a major exhibitor and filmmaker in the early years of Italian cinema . In 1897 he produced the "Cinesigrafo" with Anchise Cappelletti and Lionello Ganucci-Cancellieri , a device that used wide rolls of film, similar to the American "Biograph". It was first exhibited in Florence in May 1899 . In the early 1900s he opened cinemas in Florence and Rome (the “Moderno”), and in 1905, together with Dante Santoni, he founded the production company “Alberini & Santoni” with which he produced Italy's first dramatic film La Presa di Roma . The following year the company was renamed " Cines " and soon developed into one of the most influential production companies, not only in Italy but worldwide.

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literature

  • Giovanna Lombardi: Filoteo Alberini. L'inventore del Cinema. 2008, 205 pages.