Vittorio Calcina

Vittorio Calcina (31 December 1847 – 31 December 1916) was the first Italian filmmaker in history.

Biography Born in Turin, Calcina was a photographer by profession, he was the Lumière brothers' representative for Italy from 1896. In that year: on 23 October 1896, Calcina asked the municipality of Brescia for the concession of the San Luca Hospital to carry out, in the rooms of the "Forza e Costanza" gymnasium, the screening with cinematograph of Il bagno di Diana by Giuseppe Filippi; on 7 November 1896 he organized a screening of about 20 films by the Lumière brothers in the former Hospice of Charity in via Po 33 in Turin.

He ended his career as a short film director in 1905, when he resumed the activity of representative of the Lumière brothers in Italy. 1896: Sua Maestà il Re Umberto e Sua Maestà la Regina Margherita a passeggio per il parco a Monza 1897: Le principi di Napoli a Firenze 1898: Varo della Emanuele Filiberto a Castellammare 1898: L'entrata dell'esposizione di Torino 1898: Ciclisti romani in arrivo a Torino 1899: Il re alla rivista delle truppe reduci dalle grandi manovre l'8 settembre 1899 1899: La passione di Cristo 1900: Il corteo funebre di accompagnamento alla salma di re Umberto 1901: La nave Stella Polare del Duca degli Abruzzi 1905: Il terremoto in Calabria