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The end of SS Veronese but the making of Invicta Film
This really rather impressive "disaster" short produced by Alfredo Nunes de Matos has a very particular importance in the history of Portuguese (and European) cinema. Coming as it did just a year after the Titanic disaster, when "wreck-disaster" films were very much in vogue (August Blom's feature Atlantic comes out the same year), this short documentary enjoyed a very considerable international success. It permitted Nunes de Matos to expand his horizons, creating the fully fledged production company Invicta Film in 1917, employing a French director (Gorges Pallu) and technicians and making 1917-1923 some of the first classic of Portuguese realistic (naturalistic) cinema.
Of the three luxurious sister-ships of the Lamport and Holt Line (Liverpool-Spain-Latin America) built in 1906-1907, the SS Veronese was not the first to be wrecked, the SS Velasquez having been wrecked also off the coast of Spain as early as 1908. The SS Verdi would survived to be torpedoed by the Germans in 1917.
Invicta Film would run into bad weather from about 1923 and sink irrevocably beneath the waves in 1928.
Of the three luxurious sister-ships of the Lamport and Holt Line (Liverpool-Spain-Latin America) built in 1906-1907, the SS Veronese was not the first to be wrecked, the SS Velasquez having been wrecked also off the coast of Spain as early as 1908. The SS Verdi would survived to be torpedoed by the Germans in 1917.
Invicta Film would run into bad weather from about 1923 and sink irrevocably beneath the waves in 1928.
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- kekseksa
- Jul 18, 2017
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By what name was O Naufrágio do Veronese (1913) officially released in Canada in English?
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