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HISTORY OF CINEMA

All the images of the first "luminous magic" machines: darkrooms, magic lanterns, flame-type projectors, the evolution of movie cameras. The engravings of historic manuals: frontispieces and drawings. Collection of glass slides, hand-drawn and coloured.

Stills of scenes from the great silent films. Rare images from pre-cinema: shadowmania, Chinese shadows, Siamese theatre, etc. Cinema posters and handbills from 1910 to the present day. Portraits of stars and divas. The pioneers of cinema.



Poster of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the first full length movie in the history of cinema. Walt Disney, U.S.A. 1937.   Francesca Bertini, profile portrait with autograph. The beautiful, femme fatale film actress at the origin of stardom in Italy.   The Betrothed, a scene from the film of the same name by Mario Camerini, with Gino Cervi and Dina Sassoli; Lux Film, Italy 1941.


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