title: Alfredo Donelli
text: # Alfredo Donelli
  
  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).
  
  Along with Edmundo Orlandi he invented the Avia compact camera.
  
  ## 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)
  