Torquato Tasso (1909)

Directed by

Luigi Maggi

Genre

silent film

Country

Italy

Runtime

13 min

Elsewhere

IMDb

The catalogue in 3D

The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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How it feels

This is a short silent film from 1909. It shows scenes from the life of the writer Torquato Tasso, who lived in 1500s Italy and wrote the famous poem Jerusalem Delivered. The movie was directed by Luigi Maggi.

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What happens

Torquato Tasso è un cortometraggio muto italiano del 1909 diretto e interpretato da Luigi Maggi. La pellicola, prodotta dalla Ambrosio Film, è la prima a narrare della vita dello scrittore cortigiano Torquato Tasso, vissuto nella seconda metà del XVI secolo, autore famoso della Gerusalemme liberata. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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