Filter

 

Videos
(98 Results)

Robinet chauffeur miope
Feature film
1914
Museo Nazional del Cinema
Other title(s):
- Robinet bijziende chauffeur
- Tweedledum, a Short-Sighted Chauffeur

Tweedledum, suffering from a strong myopia, decides to take driving lessons in order to escape from boredom. After reading an announcement on the newspaper, he goes to the driving school and after pay...

Details
La cameriera è troppo bella
Feature film
Museo Nazionale del Cinema

The young waitress is the object of unwanted attention first of the son, then of the father of the bourgeois family at which she is in service. Eventually she is thrown out by the mistress of the hous...

Details
Al cinematografo, guardate… e non toccate
Feature film
1912
Museo Nazionale del Cinema
Other title(s):
- In de cinema - wel naar kijken maar niet aankomen

While walking on the street, a man meets a beautiful woman and decides to follow her to the cinema where, taking advantage of the darkness of the room, he tries to make advances to her. But eventually...

Details
La signora dall'eterno sorriso
Feature film
1912
Museo Nazionale del Cinema
Other title(s):
- Sorriso eterno

By the seaside, a lady fascinates with her smile two admirers who follow her to the beach. But while she continues to smile with delight, suddenly a male figure appears: it is the woman's husband, who...

Details
Lea e il gomitolo
Feature film
1913
Museo Nazionale del Cinema
Other title(s):
- Lea and the Bobbin
- Léa et sa pelote

Lea likes to read but her parents believe that the right occupation for a girl is to knit. But Lea doesn’t seem to have a feel for knitting: soon she loses the ball of wool and has to look for it al...

Details
Polidor e i gatti
Feature film
1913
Museo Nazionale del Cinema

When the householder decides to go on a journey, he recommends the house and his beloved cats to the waiter Polidor, but he cannot imagine the unexpected turns events will take in his absence: distrac...

Details
Polidor vuol suicidarsi
Feature film
1912
Museo Nazionale del Cinema
Other title(s):
- Polidor Wishes to Kill Himself
- Le suicide de Polidor

Harassed by creditors, Polidor decides to put an end to his existence. After a first failed attempt, he decides to jump off the roof. So he climbs along the facade of the building, but at the third fl...

Details
Fricot e l’estintore
Feature film
1913
Museo Nazionale del Cinema
Other title(s):
- Fricot et l’extinteur

Fricot, when left alone in his office, takes the new fire extinguisher into the street to test its functioning. With the excuse of preventing fires, he invests everyone he meets with jets of water. Bu...

Details
Un cuore ferito
Feature film
1912
Museo Nazionale del Cinema
Other title(s):
- Cuore spezzato
- Een gewond hart

Anastasio receives a letter from his girlfriend Cunegonde, who is arriving the next day: if he has no money, she will never be his wife. Anastasio is desperate and decides to commit suicide. But the b...

Details
Il cavallo del reggimento
Feature film
1911
Museo Nazionale del Cinema
Other title(s):
- The Horse of the Regiment
- De regimentsknol

Totò is the mayor of his hometown; the citizens decide to give him a horse. It's a great day when the mayor, after making an involuntary fall in a puddle of mud, mounts for the first time the horse. ...

Details
Auto di Robinet, L'
Feature film
1911
Museo Nazional del Cinema
Other title(s):
- Naukes Auto
- Auto de Robinet, L'
- Tweedledum's Motor Car

As Tweedledum gets on his motor car and grabs the steering wheel, a guard, passing by, notices that the car has no plate. He shouts at Robinet and tries to stop him, but he runs away laughing. However...

Details
Addio Giovinezza! [frammento 3]
Feature film
1918
Museo Nazional del Cinema
Other title(s):
- Adiós juventud
- Goodbye Youth [fragment 3]

The melancholy story of a juvenile love in the early twentieth century Turin: the student Mario meets and gets engaged to the seamstress Dorina, his landlady’s daughter. A beautiful and bored lady d...

Details
Addio Giovinezza! [frammento 4]
Feature film
1918
Museo Nazional del Cinema
Other title(s):
- Adiós juventud
- Goodbye Youth [fragment 4]

The melancholy story of a juvenile love in the early twentieth century Turin: the student Mario meets and gets engaged to the seamstress Dorina, his landlady’s daughter. A beautiful and bored lady d...

Details
Una tragedia al cinematografo
Short film
1913
Museo Nazionale del Cinema
Other title(s):
- Een treurspel in de bioscoop
- Cinema Tragedy at Carnival Time

Antonio is jealous of his wife Clara and follows her everywhere; one day he sees her walking with a man on the street. He immediately becomes convinced that they went together to the movies (instead t...

Details
Totò senz’acqua
Short film
1911
Museo Nazionale del Cinema
Other title(s):
- Totò Without Water
- Totò sans eau

At Totò’s home the water supply suddenly stops. In fact workers in the street are fixing the pipes and meanwhile the water pumps have been shut up. Unaware of the fact, Totò opens all the taps, ho...

Details
Totò entusiasta della nuova moda
Short film
1911
Museo Nazionale del Cinema
Other title(s):
- Totò critico della nuova moda
- Totò is aanhanger van de nieuwe mode

Totò is very enthusiastic about the new women’s fashion garment: the “jupe-culotte”. Now he wants to marry only a woman who wears this modern and seductive garment. So he goes in search of the ...

Details