Italo Pacchioni

Italo Pacchioni (29 March 1872 – 11 July 1940) was an Italian inventor, photographer and filmmaker, pioneer of Italian cinema, inventor of a camera and projector inspired by the cinematograph of Auguste and Louis Lumière.

Biography Early life, career and legacies Italo Pacchioni was born on 29 March 1872, in Mirandola, Italy. In 1896, he witnessed the first public screenings of the Lumière brothers in Paris where he wrote down and memorized the detailed operation of the Lumière cinematograph. With the help of his brother Enrico and a mechanic whose surname is only known, Veronelli, he assembled a camera and projector similar to the cinematograph of Auguste and Louis Lumière.

After the first screening performed on 31 October 1896 in Mirandola,

Filmography

1896: Arrivo del treno alla Stazione di Milano 1896: Ballo in famiglia 1896: La battaglia di neve 1896: Le gabbie dei matti 1896: Il finto storpio al Castello Sforzesco 1898: La Fiera di Porta Genova 1898: Il vecchio Verziere 1898: I ginnasti della Mediolanum 1899: Il Re Umberto I in visita alla Marina 1900: I funerali di Umberto I 1901: I funerali di Giuseppe Verdi