Alfredo Donelli was a leading Italian cinematographer who worked on a number of silent films including the largely abandoned Italian-shot scenes of MGM's blockbuster Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925). For Italian studios he worked on big-budget epics such as Quo Vadis (1924) and The Last Days of Pompeii (1926).Souto p. 160
Along with Edmundo Orlandi he invented the Avia compact camera.Souto pp. 159–160
Selected filmography Francesca da Rimini (1922) Quo Vadis (1924) The Fiery Cavalcade (1925) Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925) The Last Days of Pompeii (1926) The Storyteller of Venice (1929) Girls Do Not Joke (1929)
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Bibliography Souto, H. Mario Raimondo. Motion Picture Photography: A History, 1891-1960. McFarland, 2007.
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