The Cinema of Italy
The beginning of the cinema industry (1903-1909)
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During the period between 1903 and 1909 the cinema, seen until then as circus act belonging to traveling shows, became an industry of its own, with production houses in the major Italian cities such as in Turin with the Societ? Anonima Ambrosio, Aquila Film, and Itala Film, in Rome with Cines, Milan with the best equipped movie productions of the times and built by Luca Comerio who also founded a production company with his name, later called Milano Film; in Naples the Partenope Film, in Venice and subsequently a vast network of movie theatres in the urban centers. This transformation brought a new production of movies, called "subject movies", and during the "silent movie" period were shown along documentaries and finally replacing them at the dawn of WWI. The first "subject movie" was created by Alberini in 1905, the historical piece "La presa di Roma", but the most popular genres along the public were drama, romance and history, followed by the show-closing comedies, as it was already done for decades in plays performed in theatres. The first Italian movie with sound was shown on October 19th, 1906 at the cinema Lumiere in Pisa by Professor Pietro Pierini and it was produced by Fabbrica Pisana di Pellicole Parlate.
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