Ernesto Maria Pasquali
Production
Known For
In a scheme that is all the more convincing on silent film, Polydor attempts to fool a high-society mob with a no-talent singer who lip-synchs recordings from a hidden Gramophone. (MoMA)
Polidor's Gramophone
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The Chimney Sweeps Of Val D'Aosta
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Passione tsigana
Only a brief fragment survives from the beginning of this film, which seems to be a moving romantic melodrama: Diana Karenne plays the piano surrounded by a group of admirers in evening dress. She is a beautiful and slightly spoiled heiress, the kind of woman for whom Italian silent cinema reserved unfortunate turns of fate in order to elevate her to the status of tragic heroine. Even the few minutes remaining make clear that she proposes her own reinterpretation of the genre’s themes and motifs: from astonished grief over her father’s death to desperate wanderings through dark and impoverished alleyways. It is an expressive palette around which Pasquali weaves his discreet direction, paying particular attention to lighting effects.
Beyond Life, Beyond Death
Polidor wins the friendship of an elephant whom he liberates from a splinter in his foot
Polidor e l'elefante
In fictional Silistria, a plot is hatched to send the heir to the throne to Paris for a year.
On the Steps of the Throne
A tour of the "ethno-geographical" and "zoological gardens" in Hamburg, Germany, which weaved the global ideas of the end of the century 19th century World's Fair.
Around the World in Two Hours
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Il cervello di Polidor
Hard pressed for funds in his campaign for Mayor, Jim Creelman does not know where to turn, but Olga Bateman, an actress, who has fallen deeply in love with the handsome politician, offers to loan him twenty thousand dollars to insure his election, hoping that in the end he will marry her. He makes good use of the funds and his campaign is carried to a successful termination. A short time afterwards, however, he meets Miss Syble Chatfield, the fiancée of Estaban DeBussy, the editor in chief of the leading daily paper, and falls desperately in love with her.
The Black Envelope
A wife is upon the point of breaking her honor, a bunch of primroses being placed as the signal to a huntsman who will pass through the grounds. Her husband's nobility is suddenly revealed to her, and she scatters the flowers to the wind.
Primroses
Adaptation of the eponymous play.