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| Festival Year |
Festival Section |
| 2008 |
Tribute to Vittorio Martinelli - Prog.1 |
| Film Title |
MACISTE IN VACANZA |
| Alternative Title 1 |
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| Alternative Title 2 |
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| Alternative Title 3 |
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| Country |
Italy |
| Release Date |
1907 |
| Production Co. |
Itala Film |
| Director |
Romano Luigi Borgnetto |
| Format |
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Speed (fps) |
| 35mm |
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20 |
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| Footage |
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Time |
| c. 1700 m. |
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c. 75' |
| Archive Source |
Museo Nazionale del Cinema, Torino |
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| Print Notes |
lg. or./orig. l: 1907 m.
col. (imbibizioni e viraggi riprodotti con metodo Desmetcolor / Desmet colour, duplicating original tinting and toning)
Didascalie in italiano / Italian intertitles |
| Cast |
| Bartolomeo Pagano (Maciste), Henriette Bonard (Miss Edith Moak), Gemma De Sanctis (Miss Dolly), Mario Voller-Buzzi (Conte/Count Baiardi), Felice Minotti (Fernando Perez), Derege Di Donato (poeta Dasti, the poet) |
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| Other Credits |
| sogg./story: Alessandro De Stefani; f./ph: Augusto Pedrini |
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| Other Information |
| Visto di censura/ censorship certificate: 16028, 1.5.1921
Restauro a cura di/Restored by Cineteca del Comune di Bologna, Cineteca Nazionale, Museo Nazionale del Cinema |
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| Program Notes |
The stress of the frantic pace of modern life spares no one, not even Maciste, over-burdened with work and besieged by fans. A reinvigorating holiday is what he desires, above all if he can frolic through the countryside in his new little one-seat automobile, baptised “Diattolina” and loved by the giant like a wife. The honeymoon is doomed however by the price of popularity. In the street, the hotel, or the restaurant, everyone has problems to put before the hero of the cinematograph: mischievous brothers, annoying wives, cows that don't give milk, loves not reciprocated .... there is nothing that cannot be solved by Maciste! An abandoned castle seems the only refuge in which to find peace, but even this proves a deception. Like every castle it hides secrets, bandits, and intrigues, and a crazy Miss America in search of a husband, who makes Maciste and his steadfast celibacy waver. Maciste in vacanza (Maciste on Holiday) stands out as one of the most anarchic and amusing titles of the series, one of the few in which Maciste's difficulty in establishing relations with women becomes the object of knowing irony. A mischeivous vein runs through the whole film, thanks to the acting of Henriette Bonard and to the play of overtones implicit in the dilemma which haunts a Maciste who is never just an ordinary man: is it better to elope with a woman or with a motor car?
The film has been restored working with a tinted nitrate positive print with Italian intertitles, conserved in the Cineteca Nazionale in Rome; a dupe safety negative, with sound and without intertitles, and negative fragments conserved by the Filmoteca Española in Madrid; and a safety positive copy derived from the Madrid dupe negative and conserved in the Museo Nazionale del Cinema in Turin. The re-integration of the Italian intertitles and the identification of lacunae have been possible thanks to the production documentation conserved at the Museo. In particular, the colour samples have allowed us to verify the tinting of the Rome print and to reconstruct the tinting of scenes that exist only in the Madrid copy. The restoration was carried out at the Immagine Ritrovata laboratory in Bologna in September 2008.
STELLA DAGNA, CLAUDIA GIANETTO
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