Editing Cinema of Italy (section)

==== Proto-giallo (1910s) ====
[[File:Itala Film - Logo.jpg|thumb|upright|The logo of [[Itala Film]]]]

In the first and second decade of the 20th century came a prolific film production aimed at investigative and mystery content, supported by well-assorted Italian and foreign literature that favours its transposition into film. What would later take on the synthesis of the ''[[giallo]]'', in fact, was produced and distributed at the dawn of Italian cinema. The most prolific production houses in the 1910s were [[Cines]], [[Ambrosio Film]], [[Itala Film]], [[Aquila Films]], [[Milano Films]] and many others, while titles such as ''Il delitto del magistrato'' (1907), ''Il cadavere misterioso'' (1908), ''Il piccolo Sherlock Holmes'' (1909), ''L'abisso'' (1910) and ''Alibi atroce'' (1910), breached the imagination of the first cinema users who demanded a greater offer. The popular consensus is remarkable to the point of encouraging the film industry to invest further production resources since these films are also distributed on the French and Anglo-Saxon markets. Thus directors among the most prolific in this field such as [[Oreste Mentasti]], [[Luigi Maggi]], [[Arrigo Frusta]] and [[Ubaldo Maria Del Colle]], together with many others less known, direct several dozen films where classic narrative elements of the silent proto-giallo (mystery, crime, investigation investigative and final twist) constitute the structural aspects of cinematic representation.

[[Elvira Notari]], the first female director ever in Italy and one of the premieres in the history of world cinema, directed ''Carmela, la sartina di Montesanto'' (1916). While in [[Palermo]], [[Lucarelli Film]] produced ''La cassaforte n. 8'' (1914) and ''Ipnotismo'' (1914), the [[Azzurri Film]] ''La regina della notte'' (1915), the [[Lumen Film]] ''Il romanzo fantastico del Dr. Mercanton o il giustiziere invisibile'' (1915) and ''Profumo mortale'' (1915), all films ascribable to the proto-giallo that multiplied in the following decades, becoming preparatory to the subsequent birth of the ''[[giallo]]''.