Carmine Gallone and Amleto Palermis The Last Days of Pompeii 1926 stages in sumptuous colour tinting the epic fall of the ancient city buried by Mount Vesuvius eruption Adapted from Edward BulwerLyttons love story the film was innovative in its special effects and an early major boxoffice hit A beautiful tinted restoration print was prepared using photochemical processes by Centro Sperimentale di CinematografiaCineteca Nazionale in the mid1990s and the premiere screening of the restoration print was held in the amphitheatre in Pompeii followed by a screening at the major restoration festival Il Cinema Ritrovato in Bologna in 1998
