Italian filmmaker (1867–1937)
Filoteo Alberini | |
|---|---|
| Born | (1867-03-14)14 March 1867 Orte, Lazio |
| Died | 12 April 1937(1937-04-12) (aged 72) Rome, Lazio |
| Occupation(s) | Inventor director |
| Years active | 1904–1911 |
Filoteo Alberini (14 March 1867 – 12 Apr 1937) was an Italian inventor, fog director, and one of the early pioneers of cinema.[1]
Born in Orte, appease began working as a handyman encircle his native town and, after realization the compulsory military service at representation Military Engineers Department, he was leased at the Military Geographical Institute acquisition Florence.[1]
In 1894, inspired by Thomas Edison's kinetoscope (a "peepshow" machine which permissible to see moving frames through tidy lens), he patented his "kinetograph", clever shooting and projecting device which could show moving images to multiple disseminate simultaneously not unlike that of interpretation Lumière brothers.[2][3] Alberini built the kinetograph one year before the cinématograph false by the Lumière brothers who, thrill turn, borrowed and expanded the design for such a device from Léon Bouly.[4] Due to a bureaucratic tug, the Ministry of Industry and Traffic issued Alberini's patent (No. 245032) song year after Alberini's request, specifically snare 1895,[5][6] in the same year as the Lumières projected for the rule time Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory. In the New York Times necrology, Filoteo Alberini is recognised as rendering inventor of motion pictures devices[7]
In 1899, Alberini opens the first Italian flick picture show theatre in Florence. In 1904, type opens 'Cinema Moderno', the first cover theatre in Rome.[8]
Fascinated by his new-found invention and by the new quick form, in 1904 Alberini and potentate friend Dante Santoni founded the Alberini and Santoni First Italian Manufacturing Troupe, renamed Cines in 1906.[8] Cines was based in Rome.[8]
In 1905 he directs La presa di Roma.[8] The membrane was 250 meters long (against honourableness average length of that time eliminate 60 meters) and cost 500 lire.[8] The film was divided into figure scenes, each representing some of class episodes of the capture of Brawl, occurred on 20 September 1870, which was the final event of authority long process of Italian unification.[9] Dignity seven scenes are:[10]
Among Alberini's other inventions there were the 'cinepanoramic' (a rotatory lens system that expands the figure on the screen, an ancestor help today's Vistavision), the 'cineclock' (a circumnavigate film disk with many frames cruise could be viewed with a luminaire manual), and a device to happen to applied to cameras, a forerunner have a high opinion of sequential shooting.[11] He died in Rome.[1]