Ernesto Vaser
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Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: March 31, 1876
Deathday: November 23, 1934
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Soap Bubbles
1911-05-16
Soap Bubbles
Overview: 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 carrying out his nasty prank. Arriving at the child’s home, the keeper of order vehemently lists the facts. However the scallywag doesn’t bow to authority and stands up to the policeman, even mocking his mother who he leaves in despair. But soap bubbles with a strange divinatory power help him to make amends. A film from the catalogues of the company founded by Arturo Ambrosio in Turin in 1904.
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Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1911-05-16
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The Last Days of Pompeii
1908-01-02
The Last Days of Pompeii
Overview: Pompeii 79AD, mere days before the Vesuvian eruption. Glaucus and Jone are in love with each other. Arbaces, the Egyptian High Priest, is determined to conquer Jone. Glaucus purchases Nydia, the blind and long-suffering slave. Nydia falls in love with Glaucus and asks Arbaces for his help. He gives her a potion to make Glaucus fall in love with her-- In fact, a poison which will cause violent insanity.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1908-01-02
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The Hostage
1909-06-01
The Hostage
Overview: A young man sentenced to death manages to postpone his execution because of the impending wedding of his poor sister, who is to be married off. His best friend vouches for his return. After taking care of his sister, the young man hurries back, but is delayed by numerous unexpected obstacles. Nevertheless, he continues the journey, determined to join his now-presumably dead friend.
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Original Language: it
Release Date: 1909-06-01
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The Hornet
1911-01-01
The Hornet
Overview: Comedy short starring Ernesto Vaser and Eleuterio Rodolfi
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1911-01-01
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Fricot Drinks a Bottle of Horse Embrocation
1910-08-03
Fricot Drinks a Bottle of Horse Embrocation
Overview: Fricot is sent out to buy a bottle of horse medicine. Fricot drinks it himself, and begins acting like a horse.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1910-08-03
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Fricot Has a Distracted Wife
1915-03-21
Fricot Has a Distracted Wife
Overview: Fricot is married, but his wife combines an incredible series of troubles that make life hard for Fricot.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-03-21
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La mala pianta
1912-01-01
La mala pianta
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Original Language: it
Release Date: 1912-01-01
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The Faun
1917-06-01
The Faun
Overview: The model Fede loves the writer Arte, but he is enmeshed by the beautiful Femmina. Fede takes comfort in the Faun, a mythological creature who becomes animated from the stone sculpted by Arte. The love story with the Faun represents a return to a dreamt wildness impossible by now, for the modern man, to reach and maintain.
Genres: Mystery Drama Fantasy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1917-06-01
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Madame Fricot è Gelosa
1913-04-18
Madame Fricot è Gelosa
Overview: Mrs. Fricot catches her husband with another woman on his lap and demands that he commits suicide. He sneaks out of the house and asks two friends for their cooperation. When he returns home, Mr. Fricot shoots a gun in the air. His wife bursts into the room and the two friends come to collect Mr. Fricot with a coffin. Only then does Mrs. Fricot read the letter that her husband had received, stating that his niece would be visiting. Full of bewilderment, she realizes that the woman on his lap was Fricot's niece. She sits down by a painting of Mr. Fricot and asks him for forgiveness. At that moment Mr. Fricot steps out of the painting. Everything is forgiven with a toast.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1913-04-18
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A Blind Retribution
1911-12-11
A Blind Retribution
Overview: Italian short drama directed by Luigi Maggi.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1911-12-11
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Wide Brimmed Hats Are Fashionable
1912-09-12
Wide Brimmed Hats Are Fashionable
Overview: A Italian comedy with Ernesto Vaser.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-09-12
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La meridiana del convento
1917-05-02
La meridiana del convento
Overview: Italian short comedy directed by Eleuterio Rodolfi.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-05-02
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Didone abbandonata
1910-03-24
Didone abbandonata
Overview: After seven years of traveling, Aeneas and the other Trojans are surprised by a storm that wrecks their ship on the African coast. Here they are led by the Amazons to the Queen of Carthage, Dido, who soon falls in love with Aeneas. When the King of Numidia, Iarbas, comes to marry Dido, she rejects him. But in the meantime Anchises appears to Aeneas in dreams, and commands him to leave to found Rome. So, while Iarbas’ army surrounds Carthage, Aeneas embarks secretly for Rome.
Genres: Drama Romance Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1910-03-24
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The Royal Tigress
1916-11-09
The Royal Tigress
Overview: "Tigre Reale" (1916) was the film that consolidated Frau Menichelli's stardom, a film more than suitable for her performing skills and silent idiosyncrasy that any silent diva would kill to star in… In "Tigre Reale", Frau Menichelli performs the part of Frau Natka, a Russian countess with a troublesome past and an uncertain future. She was married to a revolutionary and the matrimony ended in tragedy. She likes to flirt with men but due to her traumatic sentimental past, she doesn't allow herself attachments. That is until she meets a young diplomat who will help her to make up her mind and exorcize her old sentimental traumas.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1916-11-09
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The Golden Wedding
1911-10-27
The Golden Wedding
Overview: A grandfather recalls how he and his wife met and fell in love during the Second Italian War of Independence.
Genres: Romance War Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1911-10-27
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Nero, or The Fall of Rome
1909-10-28
Nero, or The Fall of Rome
Overview: Roman emperor Nero is used to getting what he wants. He has grown tired of his wife Octavia, and has become infatuated with Poppea. He succeeds in making Poppea the new empress, but soon he faces opposition from an outraged populace. Informed of the danger of an imminent popular uprising, Nero orders to set fire to the city, which he watches from a terrace, rejoicing and playing his lyra.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1909-10-28
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Fricot impara un mestiere
1910-04-27
Fricot impara un mestiere
Overview: Ernesto Vaser gets a job as a shop assistant in a draper's, where every bolt of fabric must be examined before the lady chooses the first one she looked at. Vaser's erratic and weird course of actions indicate he is the only employee in the store, so he has to do everything himself, including serenading the clientele.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-04-27
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Fricot in Love
1912-08-30
Fricot in Love
Overview: Short comedy with Fricot. He is in love with the foster daughter of a certain Ducormaid, but this guardian does not approve of their love. Fricot dresses up as a woman and gets a job as the guardian's maid, but then the guardian falls in love with Fricot.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1912-08-30
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Robinet padre e figlio
1912-01-31
Robinet padre e figlio
Overview: Tweedledum goes out dining with a girl. He discovers that his worthy father is out on a little lark and is in the next booth to him. Many amusing complications result and in the end the old man buys his son's silence by paying both checks.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-01-31
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A Friendly Vengeance
1911-12-31
A Friendly Vengeance
Overview: Two friends are both in love with the lovely widow Gigetta Moreno. When they duel and one is victorious, he is happy with his conquest for about sixteen frames. After that, the dressmaker, hatmaker and other tradesmen present their bills for the wares sold her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1911-12-31
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Grenadier Roland
1911-05-03
Grenadier Roland
Overview: This film shows the realistic battle scenes of the Siege of Moscow, with the sensational defeat of Napoleon, with the belching cannon, the battling soldiers, scenes of heroism and daring reproduced in the most exquisite photography.
Genres: War History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1911-05-03
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La ballata della strega
1910-01-01
La ballata della strega
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Genres: Fantasy Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1910-01-01
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The Slave of Carthage
1910-11-02
The Slave of Carthage
Overview: Italian silent film
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1910-11-02
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Robinet’s White Suit
1911-08-10
Robinet’s White Suit
Overview: In this play on the symmetry of black and white, Robinet leaves home in his bright new suit for a stroll through a blackening industrial landscape. (MoMA)
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1911-08-10
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The Queen's Jewel
1913-09-01
The Queen's Jewel
Overview: A prime minister tries to compromise the queen by preventing her from recovering the jewel miniature which she had given to her former lover.
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Original Language: it
Release Date: 1913-09-01
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