Cyrano de Bergerac (1925 film)
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Cyrano de Bergerac | |
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![]() Pierre Magnier as Cyrano de Bergerac | |
Directed by | Augusto Genina |
Starring | Pierre Magnier |
Distributed by | Unione Cinematografica Italiana |
Release date |
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Running time | 104 minutes |
Country | France and Italy |
Language | Silent |
Cyrano de Bergerac is a Franco-Italian silent film directed by Augusto Genina in 1922 based on the play of the same name by Edmond Rostand.
Genina began filming in 1922, at age 30, with the help of his cousin Mario Camerini.
Nearly the entire film was colored using the Pathé Stencil Color process, which took three years to complete, delaying the film's release until 1925. This involved cutting stencils for each frame of the film, one for each of up to four colors. This was done in Paris by Mme. Thullier, the most famous stencil-color artist, by projecting each frame onto a ground glass screen, and tracing with a Pantograph. These stencils were then used to apply colors to black-and-white prints in a process similar to silk-screening. Each shot was processed separately, so different color palettes could be used for each shot.[1]
References[]
- ^ "Cyrano de Bergerac (1923)". The Little Theatre. 16 September 2014. Retrieved 12 November 2019.
External links[]
- Cyrano de Bergerac at IMDb
- Cyrano de Bergerac (1925) A Silent Film Review
- Museum, George Eastman (1 September 2015). "Cyrano de Bergerac". Retrieved 13 May 2018.
- Misek, Richard (2010). Chromatic Cinema: A History of Screen Color. John Wiley & Sons. p. 21. ISBN 9781444320084. Retrieved 13 May 2018.
- 1925 films
- Silent films
- 1920s color films
- Films based on Cyrano de Bergerac (play)
- French silent feature films
- 1925 drama films
- Italian silent feature films
- Silent films in color
- French films
- Italian films
- French drama films
- Italian drama films
- Early color films