Giovanni Vitrotti Movies

Italian short drama

Early special effects film in which a woman throws a basket of flowers in the air, upon which the flowers create different shapes and figures and...

The Merry Farmer is based on the 1907 operetta of the same name.

This one-reel documentary is pretty much what it says in the title. Cavalrymen ride their horses, first over low hedges, then over increasingly rough...

Robinet wants to try out to be a jockey, but has to go through a lot of exercise to reach the weight needed.

While making fun of the frailty of an old lady in the street, a little devil is immediately taken home by the offended policeman who catches him...

Short video showing the funeral of Don Michele Rua (1837-1910), the first Rector Major of the Salesians of Don Bosco. Don Rua's funeral procession...

Fricot is sent out to buy a bottle of horse medicine. Fricot drinks it himself, and begins acting like a horse.

A short comedy for the actor Marcel Perez

Early biopic of Dante. From the Cineteca Milano collection.

The Queen of Nineveh plots with Prince Canach to destroy the King. Hidden behind a curtain they see the King drink poisoned wine. The High Priest...

A cruel game between the disdainful Kunigund and the passionate Delorges.

During the carnival in Pont Canavese a polenta is prepared in the square and the whole town finds itself rejoicing around the stage and the big pot....

A woman says good evening through moving flowers in stop motion animation.

It was traditional for picture house screenings to begin with a short welcoming sketch, this one featured Lydia De Robertis writing Good Evening on a...