
An Italian street dancer rises to stardom and is shot by her jealous lover..
Rowland Talbot
United Kingdom

Rowland Talbot’s one-reel fever dream, From Gutter to Footlights, survives only in scattered stills and a brittle 35-mm catalogue description, yet its pulse can still be felt if you press your imagination against the sprocket holes. Shot in the winter of 1912 on the back-lot of Napoli’s defunct Teatro Mercadante, the...

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Bert Haldane

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" Rowland Talbot’s one-reel fever dream, From Gutter to Footlights, survives only in scattered stills and a brittle 35-mm catalogue description, yet its pulse can still be felt if you press your imagination against the sprocket holes. Shot in the winter of 1912 on the back-lot of Napoli’s defunct Teatro Mercadante, the film is a gutter-baroque aria that compresses an entire social ascent—poverty, art, adoration, annihilation—into eleven soot-black minutes. Fred Paul, later hailed for his Dickens..."


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