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 one—his film of Largo al factotum—is 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.