Thursday, November 05, 2009

Cretinetti As a Master of Italian Comedy

Cretinetti italialaisen komedian mestarina / Cretinetti som den italienska komedins mästare
From: Il Cineteca di Bologna. Viewed at Cinema Orion, Helsinki, 4 Nov 2009

Cretinetti re dei ladri
[Cretinetti, varkaiden kuningas]
IT 1909. PC: Itala Film. Starring André Deed (Cretinetti). 100 m /16 fps/ 6 min
Restored: L'Immagine Ritrovata (2007) in the project of restoring Italian films at Filmoteca de Catalunya, financed by Museo Nazionale del Cinema, Cineteca di Bologna ja Cineteca del Friuli. No titles.
Cretinetti fails as an amateur thief.

Cretinetti ficcanaso
[Cretinetti työntää nenänsä joka paikkaan]
IT 1909. PC: Itala Film. Starring André Deed (Cretinetti). 99 m /16 fps/ 6 min
Restored: L'Immagine Ritrovata (2005) from a nitrate print.
Cretinetti meddles with things and lands into trouble every time, having his head forged on an anvil and falling into a pit on a construction site.

Cretinetti distratto
[Cretinetti hajamielisenä]
IT 1910. PC: Itala Film. Starring André Deed (Cretinetti). 168 m /16 fps/ 9 min
Source of preservation: American Film Institute. No titles.
Cretinetti wakes up in the middle of his sleep and finds himself in outlandish situations, walking through a mirror and falling through the roof.

Come fu che l'ingordigia rovinò il Natale a Cretinetti
[Cretinetti ja ahneuden palkka]
IT 1910. PC: Itala Film. Starring André Deed (Cretinetti). 237 m /16 fps/ 13 min
Source of restoration: Museo Nazionale del Cinema. Dutch titles.
The greedy boy Cretinetti eats up all his Christmas pastries before Christmas. In Cretinetti's nightmare, Santa Claus takes him into Heaven, where he wreaks such havoc that God commits him into Hell.

Il regalo di Cretinetti
[Cretinettin lahja]
IT 1911. PC: Itala Film. Starring André Deed (Cretinetti), Valentina Frascaroli. 164 m /16 fps/ 9 min
Source of restoration: Archivo Nacional de la Imagen - Sodre (Montevideo). Didascalie italiane
Cretinetti tries to bring a gift to his sweetheart. He loses the flowers. The tableware set breaks into pieces. Finally he buys a piano, but in the great chaos he is stuffed inside it.

Cretinetti s'incarica del trasloco
Müller übernimmt den Umzug / [Cretinetti muuttaa]
IT 1911. PC: Itala Film. Starring André Deed (Cretinetti), Valentina Frascaroli. 150 m /16 fps/ 8 min
Deutsche Zwischentitel
Moving Cretinetti style: a tornado of furniture.

Il Natale di Cretinetti
[Cretinettin joulu]
IT 1911. PC: Itala Film. Starring André Deed (Cretinetti), Valentina Frascaroli. 132 m /16 fps/ 8 min
Source of restoration: Archivo Nacional de la Imagen - Sodre (restored 2002). Didascalie italiane
Cretinetti carries an immense load of gifts, including a Christmas tree, a rifle and a wooden horse. He bumps onto a mailman, and accidentally get with him a package with three bottles: elixir of fear, elixir of mirth, and elixir of fury. At the Christmas party, first Cretinetti and soon everybody else is going amok with the elixir.

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