serial &mdash; settima https://write.underworld.fr/settima/tag:serial @settima@zirk.us Mon, 20 Apr 2026 12:39:03 +0200 Le avventure straordinarissime di Saturnino Farandola [The Extraordinary... https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-jwlg <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Le avventure straordinarissime di Saturnino Farandola [The Extraordinary Adventures of Saturnino Farandola] (Marcel Perez + Luigi Maggi, 1913)/div div class="month" Dec/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 6/div div class="occasion" hot air balloons/div div class="img" Le avventure straordinarissime di Saturnino Farandola (1913).jpg)/div div class="caption" A fantastic hot air balloon fight, with machine gunners perched on top of one of the buoyant giants (via). DP: Ottavio De Matteis./div div class="txt" A hot air balloon &nbsp; &nbsp; the Bales 2025 Film Challenge for December has a few dateless themes. This is one of them. /div div class="tags" ##### #Bales2025FilmChallenge #balloons #MarcelPerez #LuigiMaggi #AlbertRobida #NildeBaracchi #AlfredoBertone #FilippoCastamagna #OresteGrandi #LucianoManara #OttavioDeMatteis #adventure #SciFi #serial #Bookadaptation #Italy #1910s/div /section ]]>

Le avventure straordinarissime di Saturnino Farandola [The Extraordinary Adventures of Saturnino Farandola] (Marcel Perez + Luigi Maggi, 1913)

Dec

6

hot air balloons

Le avventure straordinarissime di Saturnino Farandola (1913)

A fantastic hot air balloon fight, with machine gunners perched on top of one of the buoyant giants (via). DP: Ottavio De Matteis.

A hot air balloon*

 

 

* the Bales 2025 Film Challenge for December has a few dateless themes. This is one of them.

#Bales2025FilmChallenge #balloons #MarcelPerez #LuigiMaggi #AlbertRobida #NildeBaracchi #AlfredoBertone #FilippoCastamagna #OresteGrandi #LucianoManara #OttavioDeMatteis #adventure #SciFi #serial #Bookadaptation #Italy #1910s

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-jwlg Sat, 06 Dec 2025 13:05:00 +0100 Les Vampires [The Vampires or, The Arch Criminals of Paris] (Louis Feuillade,... https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-0c4x <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Les Vampires [The Vampires or, The Arch Criminals of Paris] (Louis Feuillade, 1915/1916)/div div class="month" Aug/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 24/div div class="occasion" black/div div class="img" Les Vampires (1915)/div div class="caption" A signed promotional photograph of Irma Vep (Musidora) in her iconic black catsuit. DPs: Georges Guérin & Manichoux./div div class="txt" description Black, in food or fashion "It is vital to be photogenic from head to foot. After that you are allowed to display some measure of talent." ### – Musidora Possibly the first, and definitely the most, iconic catsuit in cinema is worn by Musidora as Irma Vep in Les Vampires. Skintight and scandalous, Musidora's screen presence in the serial further cemented the popularity of the vamp and set the scene for many man-eaters to come. &nbsp; /description the Bales 2025 Film Challenge for August is not date-related but lists, for the most part, the colours of the rainbow./div div class="tags" ##### #Bales2025FilmChallenge #black #colours #LouisFeuillade #Musidora #ÉdouardMathé #MarcelLévesque #JeanAymé #FernandHerrmann #StaciaNapierkowska #GeorgesGuérin #Manichoux #SilentFilm #vamps #serial #drama #thriller #crime #mystery #Paris #France #1910s/div /section ]]>

Les Vampires [The Vampires or, The Arch Criminals of Paris] (Louis Feuillade, 1915/1916)

Aug

24

black

Les Vampires (1915)

A signed promotional photograph of Irma Vep (Musidora) in her iconic black catsuit. DPs: Georges Guérin & Manichoux.

Black, in food or fashion*

“It is vital to be photogenic from head to foot. After that you are allowed to display some measure of talent.”

– Musidora

Possibly the first, and definitely the most, iconic catsuit in cinema is worn by Musidora as Irma Vep in Les Vampires. Skintight and scandalous, Musidora's screen presence in the serial further cemented the popularity of the vamp and set the scene for many man-eaters to come.

 

#Bales2025FilmChallenge #black #colours #LouisFeuillade #Musidora #ÉdouardMathé #MarcelLévesque #JeanAymé #FernandHerrmann #StaciaNapierkowska #GeorgesGuérin #Manichoux #SilentFilm #vamps #serial #drama #thriller #crime #mystery #Paris #France #1910s

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-0c4x Sun, 24 Aug 2025 15:30:00 +0200 Homunculus, 4. Teil - Die Rache des Homunculus (Otto Rippert, 1917) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-q2db <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Homunculus, 4. Teil - Die Rache des Homunculus (Otto Rippert, 1917)/div div class="month" Feb/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 3/div div class="occasion" finance/div div class="img" Homunculus, 4. Teil - Die Rache des Homunculus (1917)/divdiv class="caption" Richard Ortmann, the homunculus (Olaf Fønss). DP: Carl Hoffmann./div div class="txt" A film about finance because "the Commonwealth of Massachusetts issues the first paper money on February 3, 1690". The oldest surviving paper bill in what is now the United States bears the date February 3, 1690. The first documented paper money was issued during the Tang and Song dynasties in China, starting in the vulgar year 618. Who would have thought those new colonies were not the center of world history… sigh… &nbsp; In the fourth instalment of the Homunculus saga, the artificial man callously heads the nation's financial powerhouse while secretly goading the workers in revolt against the ruling class. Soulless and unable to love, he aims for the annihilation of mankind. &nbsp; Some claim that Die Rache des Homunculus, "The Wrath of the Homunculus", foreshadows Hitler. I say, beware of businessmen enthralling the working classes./div div class="tags" ##### #Bales2025FilmChallenge #finance #OttoRippert #OlafFønss #FriedrichKühne #TheodorLoos #AudEgedeNissen #MariaCarmi #LupuPick #CarlHoffmann #capitalism #serial #drama #Germany #1910s/div /section ]]>

Homunculus, 4. Teil – Die Rache des Homunculus (Otto Rippert, 1917)

Feb

3

finance

Homunculus, 4. Teil - Die Rache des Homunculus (1917)

Richard Ortmann, the homunculus (Olaf Fønss). DP: Carl Hoffmann.

A film about finance because “the Commonwealth of Massachusetts issues the first paper money on February 3, 1690”. The oldest surviving paper bill in what is now the United States bears the date February 3, 1690. The first documented paper money was issued during the Tang and Song dynasties in China, starting in the vulgar year 618. Who would have thought those new colonies were not the center of world history… sigh…

 

In the fourth instalment of the Homunculus saga, the artificial man callously heads the nation's financial powerhouse while secretly goading the workers in revolt against the ruling class. Soulless and unable to love, he aims for the annihilation of mankind.

 

Some claim that Die Rache des Homunculus, “The Wrath of the Homunculus”, foreshadows Hitler. I say, beware of businessmen enthralling the working classes.

#Bales2025FilmChallenge #finance #OttoRippert #OlafFønss #FriedrichKühne #TheodorLoos #AudEgedeNissen #MariaCarmi #LupuPick #CarlHoffmann #capitalism #serial #drama #Germany #1910s

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