Due to the virus they've made their entire archive available online for streaming, free of charge! Just need a quick registration. I haven't browsed through it properly yet but there's bound to be lots of rare silents.
https://www.cinetecamilano.it/
Cineteca Milano
that's lovely, grazie. povera italiani!~
watching antamoro's pinnochio
and it was excellent!
watching antamoro's pinnochio
and it was excellent!
just a warning, these prints are the ones held by them and so are not exactly definitive eg medvezhya svadba - utterly gorgeous print, miles better than what's available elsewhere, but chopped to nonsense, so much so that it bears (huh) no relation to what it's meant to be about.
but the print of raskolnikow looks beyond belief improvement to the scratchy blurry pointlessness of the one most people have seen.
but the print of raskolnikow looks beyond belief improvement to the scratchy blurry pointlessness of the one most people have seen.