Il film rivelatore (1914)
Spanish minicard by Reclam Films, Mallorca, card 1 of 6. Photo: Pasquali Film. Gustavo Serena and Maria Jacobini in Il film rivelatore (Umberto Paradisi, 1914). The film was released in Spain as La cinta acusadora.
Spanish minicard by Reclam Films, Mallorca, card 2 of 6. Photo: Pasquali Film. Gustavo Serena and Maria Jacobini in Il film rivelatore (Umberto Paradisi, 1914).
Spanish minicard by Reclam Films, Mallorca, card 3 of 6. Photo: Pasquali Film. Gustavo Serena in Il film rivelatore (Umberto Paradisi, 1914). On this card, Serena is in the foreground with an unknown actress, possibly the actress who plays the cinematographer, Tilly.
The Italian silent drama Il film rivelatore / The Revealing Film (Umberto Paradisi, 1914), with Gustavo Serena, Maria Jacobini, Luigi Mele and Nello Carotenuto, was produced by Pasquali Film and premiered in Italy in July 1914. The film was released in Spain as La cinta acusadora.
Gustavo Serena plays Count de Lys (Jack Daingerfield in the American version of this film, distributed by the Picture Playhouse Film Company), who has lost his entire fortune and is forced to marry a rich heiress, Mary Delmar (Maria Jacobini). Jack recognises her as an old flame and is eagerly willing to marry her.
At the wedding, a rival suitor appears, Count Metzburg (Lord Lytton in the American version), who breaks up the romance by showing Maria a telegram from the usurer Vernier, which confirms De Ly's economic misfortune.
De Lys then decides to start to work in a film company and agrees to film a lion hunt in Africa with his female aide Tilly. Metzburg and Vernier see this as an opportunity to get rid of the man and shoot him in Africa, presuming he died. Yet, De Lys is only wounded, and Tilly has filmed it all. During the betrothal party of Maria and Metzburg, the film exposes the lurid action of the two villains, and Maria consents to marry De Lys.
It's not clear who played the evil Metzburg or Lytton. IMDb claims it was Italian actor Luigi Mele, but our other source, Vittorio Martinelli, contradicts this in his 'Il cinema muto italiano, 1914, Vol. 1'.
Spanish minicard by Reclam Films, Mallorca, card 4 of 6. Photo: Pasquali Film. Gustavo Serena in Il film rivelatore (Umberto Paradisi, 1914).
Spanish minicard by Reclam Films, Mallorca, card 5 of 6. Photo: Pasquali Film. Gustavo Serena in Il film rivelatore (Umberto Paradisi, 1914).
Spanish minicard by Reclam Films, Mallorca, card 6 of 6. Photo: Pasquali Film. Gustavo Serena and Nello Carotenuto in Il film rivelatore (Umberto Paradisi, 1914).
Les enfants d’Édouard (1913)
Spanish minicard by Reclam Films, Mallorca, card 1 of 6. Photo: Cosmograph. Scene from Les enfants d'Édouard (Henri Andréani, 1913). This scene could be the presentation to the court of Crown Prince Edward (Marcelle Fleury) as the future King Edward V by his mother Queen Elizabeth (Jeanne Delvair). Right of them stands the uncle of young Edward, the Duke of Gloucester (Georges Wague), who considers himself to be the righteous future king. The scene could also simply represent the mourning of the deceased King Edward IV.
Spanish minicard by Reclam Films, Mallorca, card 2 of 6. Photo: Cosmograph. Scene from Les enfants d'Édouard (Henri Andréani, 1913). It isn't clear what the gypsies in the old streets of London are supposed to mean.
Spanish minicard by Reclam Films, Mallorca, card 3 of 6. Photo: Cosmograph. Scene from Les enfants d'Édouard (Henri Andréani, 1913). In the back, Georges Wague as the Duke of Gloucester, future Richard III. In the foreground right, Jeanne Delvair as Queen Elizabeth, fearing for the life of her son, crown prince Edward (Marcelle Fleury).
In 1909, André Calmettes directed the first silent version of Les enfants d'Édouard / The Children of Edward for Pathé. In 1913, Henri Andréani, a former assistant to Charles Pathé turned film director, directed a new version. He made his silent version of Les enfants d'Édouard / The Children of Edward for the new company Cosmograph, which was founded in 1912.
Georges Wague played Richard II, Duke of Gloucester, who, after the death of his brother Edward IV (Jean Jacquinet), wants to take the throne.
He therefore has the two young sons of Edward and the helpless Queen Elizabeth (Jeanne Delvair) arrested. The two boys, including the crown prince, are locked up in the Tower and are finally murdered by Tyrell.
Richard crowns himself as King Richard III. A rebellion breaks out, led by the Duke of Buckingham (Jean Toulout). Finally, at the Battle of Bosworth Field, abandoned by all, Richard was killed by the Earl of Richmond, the future King Henry VII.
The film script by Paul d'Ivoi was based on William Shakespeare's play 'Richard III' (c. 1595), which enjoyed wide diffusion in France at the time, and on Casimir Delavigne's tragedy, 'Les Enfants d'Édouard' (1833). There is also a famous oil on canvas painting by French painter Paul Delaroche, which focuses on the theme of the Princes in the Tower and was created in 1830. The painting is held in the Louvre in Paris. While Les enfants d'Édouard / The Children of Edward (Henri Andréani, 1913) was made in France in 1913, its release in France and beyond was in 1914.
Spanish minicard by Reclam Films, Mallorca, card 4 of 6. Photo: Cosmograph. Georges Wague as the Duke of Gloucester, Marcelle Fleury as Crown Prince Edward, and an unidentified young actor as his brother Richard in Les enfants d'Édouard (Henri Andréani, 1913).
Spanish minicard by Reclam Films, Mallorca, card 5 of 6. Photo: Cosmograph. Jeanne Delvair as Queen Elizabeth and behind her Jean Toulout as the Duke of Buckingham in Les enfants d'Édouard (Henri Andréani, 1913).
Spanish minicard by Reclam Films, Mallorca, card 6 of 6. Photo: Cosmograph. Jean Toulout (right) as the Duke of Buckingham in Les enfants d'Édouard (Henri Andréani, 1913).
Faedrenes synd (1914)
Spanish minicard by Reclam Films, Mallorca, card 1 of 6. Photo: Nordisk. Scene from the Danish film Fædrenes Synd / The Father's Sin (August Blom, 1914), released in Spain as La inquidad de un padre. Marie Dinesen as the poor mother with her two children.
Spanish minicard by Reclam Films, Mallorca, card 2 of 6. Photo: Nordisk. Scene from Fædrenes Synd / The Father's Sin (August Blom, 1914). Daughter Elisa (Ragnhild Lykke) [?] and the astronomer Dr. Levin (Thorkild Roose).
Spanish minicard by Reclam Films, Mallorca, card 3 of 6. Photo: Nordisk. Scene from Fædrenes Synd / The Father's Sin (August Blom, 1914). Brother and sister: Victor (Nicolai Johannsen) and Elisa (Ragnhild Lykke).
The Danish drama Fædrenes Synd / The Father's Sin (1914) was directed by famous film pioneer August Blom for the Nordisk Kompagni. It was scripted by Sven Lange and cinematographed by Johan Ankerstjerne. The first screening in Denmark was on 1 June 1914.
The attorney Franz Muller (Carl Lauritzen) and his wife (Marie Dinesen) and two children live in humble circumstances. He meets an usurer, Abel Simon, who suggests he forge a signature, but he refuses.
His wife gets ill, and in his delirium, Muller projects the life of his son and daughter: Elisa (Ragnhild Lykke), a poor creature and his son Victor (Nicolai Johannsen), a criminal. When his wife dies, for his children's sake, Muller accepts Simon's proposal to become his associate as a banker.
Fifteen years later, he has become an established banker, and his children have grown up. Elisa is betrothed to an astronomer, Dr. Levin (Thorkild Roose), who is about to become a professor. Yet, Levin suspects there is something wrong with Elisa's father. His own father once killed himself because of the usurer Abel Simon. Elisa is shocked but soon finds out that Simon is the associate of her father.
Elisa's brother, who has become an officer and is about to marry into a renowned military family, discovers a document which proves the bond between his father and the usurer. All the intense and caring help Muller has given to his children when growing up vanishes when the secret comes out. Son and daughter flee the town. Muller, cursed and abandoned by his children, dies in pain.
Spanish minicard by Reclam Films, Mallorca, card 4 of 6. Photo: Nordisk. Scene from Fædrenes Synd / The Father's Sin (August Blom, 1914). Victor (Nicolai Johannsen) and his well-to-do future bride (possibly Gyda Aller).
Spanish minicard by Reclam Films, Mallorca, card 5 of 6. Photo: Nordisk. Scene from Fædrenes Synd / The Father's Sin (August Blom, 1914). Brother and sister realise their father's stain on their reputation (Nicolai Johannsen and Ragnhild Lykke).
Spanish minicard by Reclam Films, Mallorca, card 6 of 6. Photo: Nordisk. Scene from Fædrenes Synd / The Father's Sin (August Blom, 1914). Kevin tells Elisa of his father's death (Thokild Roose and Ragnhil Lykke). Or is it Elisa telling the terrible secret of her father?
Sources: Vittorio Martinelli (Il cinema muto italiano, 1914, Vol. 1 - Italian), DFI, Ciné-Ressources, Wikipedia and IMDb.
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