RARE ELECTRIC: Titta Ruffo Credo in un Dio Crudel Otello 1929

It s not widely known that Ruffo recorded three short films for Metro Movietone don t know why I used the Vitaphone logo here). Only onehis film of Largo al factotumis confirmed to have been presented on screen (as part of the reels before showings of Madame X at the Sam H. Harris Theatre, New York). Though none of the kinescopes are known to exist, the disc incisions of the films audio have survived.