Romolo Bacchini
Romolo Bacchini, also credited as Bachini (11 April 1872 – 27 March 1938) was a filmmaker, musician, painter and Italian dialect poet, who spent his career during the silent film era. Biography. Born Romolo Bachini in Rome, Bacchini, as he later spelled it, was one of the pioneers of Italian silent cinema, directing, and sometimes acting in, more than 50 films. Some have been lost while others were recovered and restored, such as "La leggenda dell'edelweiss", of which coils and the original screenplay have been found by researchers of the (MICS) (International museum of film and entertainment), in 1988 . In 1909 he moved to Naples, where the fledgling movie company gave him the artistic direction of its productions. In the capital of Campania he directed many of his movies, among them the historical short film "", one of the first Italian movies to be set in the Middle Ages. In 1936, as art director for CAIR (Cartoni Animati Italiani Roma), he directed "The Adventures of Pinocchio", which is believed to be the first animated film dedicated to the novel by Carlo Collodi. Music. He graduated in composition and direction at the in Naples, and was a composer (he wrote several  operas), director and conductor of the orchestra. He wrote plenty of accompanying music for films and was the first musician in the history of cinema to have composed – in 1905 – specifically created music to accompany a movie (""La Malìa dell'oro"", by Filoteo Alberini). Poetry. Contemporary and friend of poet and writer , with him he was part of the "Gruppo dei Romanisti" as well as other intellectuals and artists who, during the charming times of Caffé Greco, animated the cultural salons of Rome. He wrote many poetical compositions, revealing himself as particularly inclined into poems, verses and sonnets in Roman dialect . In 1929 he wrote "", a poem in blank verse and quatrains, all in Roman dialect, dealing with the birth of Rome and illustrated by the painter-ceramicist Romeo Berardi.