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Cristina Prasso

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Editorial director at astoria edizioni. ░ Book reader by day, (silent) film buff (and knitter) by night. ░ «It isn't mink! It's kolinsky!» ░ Lermontov: Interesting quotes and book excerpts about (mostly silent) movies https://crispra.substack.com/

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Cristina Prasso @criprasso.bsky.social · 6d

«The first man on either side of the water to be hired for no other purpose than to write pictures.» - The birth of screenwriting: crispra.substack.com/p/the-first-...

«The first man on either side of the water to be hired for no other purpose than to write pictures.»

The birth of screenwriting

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Cristina Prasso @criprasso.bsky.social · 13d

A stick in front of the screen - Asta Nielsen, Danish Actress in America
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A stick in front of the screen

Asta Nielsen, Danish Actress in America

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Cristina Prasso @criprasso.bsky.social · 20d

A great way to have fun and get paid for it
Roscoe «Fatty» Arbuckle and Mabel Normand's knack for talent - crispra.substack.com/p/a-great-wa...

A great way to have fun and get paid for it

Roscoe «Fatty» Arbuckle and Mabel Normand's knack for talent

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Cristina Prasso @criprasso.bsky.social · 25d

Fritz Lang during the shooting of Metropolis, 1926. (Collection de la Cinemathèque française).

Cristina Prasso @criprasso.bsky.social · 27d

All the screens in the universe are awaiting you -
Abel Gance's battle cry and the first day of filming «Napoléon»: crispra.substack.com/p/all-the-sc...

All the screens in the Universe are awaiting you

Abel Gance's battle cry and the first day of filming «Napoléon»

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Cristina Prasso @criprasso.bsky.social · Sep 8

A sick actress, a boa-constrictor and a dress that wouldn’t fit -
Just another day in the production office (1914): crispra.substack.com/p/a-sick-act...

Cristina Prasso @criprasso.bsky.social · Sep 3

A very proper, soft-spoken young woman - Anne Bauchens, the DeMille brothers and the art of cutting pictures: crispra.substack.com/p/a-very-pro...

A very proper, soft-spoken young woman

Anne Bauchens, the DeMille brothers and the art of cutting pictures

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Cristina Prasso @criprasso.bsky.social · Aug 29

I knew Fitzgerald very well in person - David O. Selznick, Francis Scott Fitzgerald, a biography and «Gone With the Wind» crispra.substack.com/p/i-knew-fit...

I knew Fitzgerald very well in person

David O. Selznick, Francis Scott Fitzgerald, a biography and «Gone With the Wind»

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Cristina Prasso @criprasso.bsky.social · Aug 20

The Literary Secret Service: How to find a good story: crispra.substack.com/p/the-litera...

Cristina Prasso @criprasso.bsky.social · Aug 15

No laughs, no money - Dreiser, Sennett and jokes crispra.substack.com/p/no-laughs-...

No laughs, no money

Dreiser, Sennett and jokes

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Cristina Prasso @criprasso.bsky.social · Aug 8

The canny German - Carl Laemmle, Larry Cohn and «Traffic in Souls»; crispra.substack.com/p/the-canny-...

Cristina Prasso @criprasso.bsky.social · Aug 5

«If Joe Breen tells you to change a picture...»
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«If Joe Breen tells you to change a picture...»

The Catholic Chruch and the movies, 1930s

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Cristina Prasso @criprasso.bsky.social · Aug 3

Perhaps a little cutting - Louis B. Mayer, his family and the previews: crispra.substack.com/p/perhaps-a-...

Perhaps a little cutting

Louis B. Mayer, his family and the previews

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Cristina Prasso @criprasso.bsky.social · Aug 3

Most sorry to have to say no - Selznick, Brown and «Gone with the Wind»: crispra.substack.com/p/most-sorry...

Most sorry to have to say no

Selznick, Brown and «Gone with the Wind»

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Cristina Prasso @criprasso.bsky.social · Aug 3

A parable of modern anxiety: Melodrama and early cinema crispra.substack.com/p/a-parable-...

A parable of modern anxiety

Melodrama and early cinema

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Cristina Prasso @criprasso.bsky.social · Jul 27

The kino cannot do other than represent facts
... however uncomplimentary the facts may be, or seem. crispra.substack.com/p/the-kino-c...

The kino cannot do other than represent facts

... however uncomplimentary the facts may be, or seem.

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Cristina Prasso @criprasso.bsky.social · Jul 26

«What is he, a dumbbell?» - When Samuel Goldwyn hired a Nobel prize. crispra.substack.com/p/what-is-he...

Cristina Prasso @criprasso.bsky.social · Jul 24

A criminal injustice - Darryl F. Zanuck, John Ford and Jean Renoir's La Grande Illusion crispra.substack.com/p/a-criminal...

A criminal injustice

Darryl F. Zanuck, John Ford and Jean Renoir's La Grande Illusion

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Cristina Prasso @criprasso.bsky.social · Jul 23

Margaret Booth owns your negative: The editing queen of MGM crispra.substack.com/p/margaret-b...

Cristina Prasso @criprasso.bsky.social · Jul 21

Chaplin/Keaton outsider/insider crispra.substack.com/p/chaplinkea...

Chaplin/Keaton outsider/insider

When Chaplin began to act like Keaton

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Cristina Prasso @criprasso.bsky.social · Jul 20

Resources for studying the Hollywood Studio System: wcftr.commarts.wisc.edu/index.php/20...

Resources for studying the Hollywood Studio System, with thanks to dear friends

An extraordinary gathering is taking place this week at the University of Southern California’s School of Cinematic Arts. Over 200 scholars, teachers, archivists, and creators will be participating in...

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Cristina Prasso @criprasso.bsky.social · Jul 19

A spot lacking some of the modern amenities crispra.substack.com/p/a-spot-lac...

A spot lacking some of the modern amenities

The birth of the Hal E. Roach Studios

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Cristina Prasso @criprasso.bsky.social · Jul 17

Laurel and Hardy and Cavell: crispra.substack.com/p/laurel-and...

Laurel and Hardy and Cavell

«Back together, together again»

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Cristina Prasso @criprasso.bsky.social · Jul 15

Mack Sennett, the oddity: crispra.substack.com/p/mack-senne...

Mack Sennett, the oddity

The taste of «the average working guy»

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Cristina Prasso @criprasso.bsky.social · Jul 14

Very little extra trouble: crispra.substack.com/p/very-littl...

Very little extra trouble

California, an hypnotist and Monte Cristo

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