L'Inferno (1911)
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L'Inferno is a 1911 silent film by Giuseppe de Liguoro, loosely adapted from Dante's The Divine Comedy.
L'Inferno was first screened in Naples in the Teatro Mercandante on March 10, 1911. The film took over three years to make and was the first full-length Italian feature film ever made. The film was an international success, taking more than $2 million in the United States alone.
DVD Release
The film was released on DVD in 2004 by Snapper Music, with a score by [Tangerine Dream] The DVD runs 71 minutes (including restoration credits) and features, unusually, a [PCM] stereo soundtrack (making the music CD-quality) The image quality, in untinted black & white is, mostly, very good and the high bitrate (almost 10mb/s) means there are practically no digital-artefacts. The DVD was created from two archival prints and is believed to be almost complete (missing only one intertitle, and missing 3 seconds from one shot) The DVD was released in both Britain and America as Region 0, NTSC
External links
- ((http://www.silentera.com/DVD/infernoDVD.html) DVD Review at SilentEra.com)
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