Ubaldo Arata

Ubaldo Arata (1895–1947) was an Italian cinematographer. Arata worked on more than a hundred films between 1918 and his death in 1947. Arata entered cinema in the silent era, and worked prolifically during the 1920s including on one of the final entries into the long-running Maciste series. He was employed on the first Italian sound film The Song of Love (1930). Until the fall of Fascism, he was one of the leading Italian cinematographers working on propaganda films such as Scipione l'africano (1937) and Luciano Serra, Pilot (1938) as well as more straightforward entertainment films.

Arata worked with Roberto Rossellini on the 1945 neorealist drama Rome, Open City. He was instrumental in securing the backing of the distribution' company Minerva Film for the production's release.^[1] Following the Second World War, Arata worked on several co-production with Britain and the United States.

Selected filmography

• Zingari (1920)
• Maciste in Hell (1925)
• The Courier of Moncenisio (1927)
• The Carnival of Venice (1928)
• Rails (1929)
• Judith and Holofernes (1929)
• The Song of Love (1930)
• Singing Naples (1930)
• Before the Jury (1931)
• The Charmer (1931)
• Everybody's Woman (1934)
• Red Passport (1935)
• Ginevra degli Almieri (1935)
• Aldebaran (1935)
• A Woman Between Two Worlds (1936)
• Scipione l'africano (1937)
• Luciano Serra, Pilot (1938)
• The Widow (1939)
• Bridge of Glass (1940)
• The King's Jester (1941)
• The Story of Tosca (1941)
• Girl of the Golden West (1942)
• Carmen (1944)
• Life Begins Anew (1945)
• Rome, Open City (1945)
• The Adulteress (1946)
• Teheran (1946)
• Call of the Blood (1949)
• Black Magic (1949)

References

Bibliography

• Liehm, Mira. Passion and Defiance: Film in Italy from 1942 to the Present. University of California Press, 1984.
• Wagstaff, Christopher. Italian Neorealist Cinema: An Aesthetic Approach. University of Toronto Press, 2007.

External links

• Ubaldo Arata at the Internet Movie Database