director: Enrico Guazzoni
year: 1916
country: Italy
history notes: Unidentified Film No. 042
alternative titles: Ausschnitte aus einem französischen Spielfilm über die Französische Revolution

This film has been identified thanks to contributions from members of the Lost FIlms community.

A market place in long-shot. In the background stands a platform with Guillotine. Many people [frame scan 1]. / The condemned on a horse-drawn cart, mid-shot [frame scan 2]. / Despite the presence of soldiers with shiny, drawn swords, the people free the condemned ones. / Scene at the grounds of a palace [frame scan 3]. / Arrests in a dark alley [frame scan 4]. / A coppice. Poster: "Fête de la déesse raison" [frame scan 5]. A man with a black hat and black cape tears the poster down and hangs up a new one, the content of which is not distinguishable. / Jubilant people in the streets, armed with clubs and scythes. A drummer. An arrested nobleman, close-up [frame scan 6]. / The Cavalry shoots into the crowd. / People in uproar, a man carrying a sign: "Nous voulons du Pain", "Pain Pain". [frame scan 7] [frame scan 8 with tinting instructions] / Guillotine. / Crowd. A woman is carried atop someone's shoulders [frame scan 9]. / Scenes at the courts [frame scan 10]. / With the revolutionaries. A proclamation is read out. / National assembly [frame scans 11, 12]. / A casualty with head bandage [frame scan 13].

Length: 200m
Format: 35mm, 1.33;1
Picture/Sound: coloured, silent
Notes: 'Agfa' (flat 'A') edgecode.

Source notes
Deutsche Kinemathek - Museum für Film und Fernsehen

Print without main title and inter-titles. Probably early 20's. No indication of the film at first glance in the "Filmographie mondiale de la Révolution francaise" (1989).

More notices about this film:
Negativo originale su supporto nitrato, senza didascalie (original negative nitrate, no titles) Cineteca Italiana Milano.
Copia positiva supporto nitrato, colorata didascalie francesi positive (copy, colored; french titles) Cinémathèque Française
Original length 1833 mt.
VHS restored edition Mondadori/Cineteca Italiana Milano/Cineteca Comune di Bologna/Cinémathèque Française 1995, 1770 metri

The film is Madame Tallien, directed by Enrico Guazzoni,
Palatino Film company, Roma 1916.
The story is from the drama of Victorien Sardou, Madame Tallien.
The man in the stills 4/6 is Amleto Novelli (Tallien), the girl with the hat in the still 2
is Lyda Borelli (madame Tallien), and still 24.

If you have any other questions let me know.