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Women in Italy

221385 12:17:13 - 12:19:41 1900 c SIL B/W [City Street Life w/ Pedestrians, Carriages & Horse Drawn Trams, ca 1900]

Carriages along waterfront, pedestrians walking w/ mountain seen on opposite shore of harbor or river mouth. Women & man carry bundles on heads. Probably Italy or South America.

12:18:02 Street crowded w/ pedestrians, women w/ parasols; horses pulling carriages; Catholic priest in background & walking toward camera. Naples (?).

12:18:51 Square or plaza w/ pedestrians, donkeys & horses pulling carts; large horse pulled trams on rails. Naples (?).

221078-01 12:00:20 - 12:01:03 1903 Si B/W Washing Clothes at Sicily

Edison

Group of women lined up at community washing area in street - washing clothes against flagstones & looking at camera.

1900s - Italy. Daily Life.

A200067 00:01:00 - 00:25:21 1910 - 1950s ? Sd B/W History of Fiat

INCLUDING:

00:15:46 1940s / 1950s Steel works - stamping out body parts - tracking shot through factory showing various processes and workers - some women. Lines of finished cars. Wheels and tyres fitted. Cars off production line. Cars polished and finished - out of factory and tested on velodrome type track. 00:21:24

Note: Tape sold on access basis - permission to use may be required from Fiat

221082 06:13:21 - 06:17:18 1910s SIL B/W [Venice Pre-1914]

INCLUDING:

06:15:08 Workers demo, “red flags”. Men in hats watch. Man on bicycle; women in traditional clothes sell flowers. Stills of Jews (women, men & child in hats). Painting of the “White Knight”.

06:16:34 GVs of street, people, tram, horses & carts.

06:16:58 Women feed pigeons outside cathedral / Basilica in St. Mark’s Square, Venice - includes good CU. 06:17:

Travelogues. Piazza di San Marco, Venezia. Edwardian Fashions.

220497-09 01:33:53 - 01:38:03 1911 Si b/w [1911 - Russian Spoke Carriage Wheel Invented; Ship in Ice; Oxford & Cambridge Race; Royalty]

INCLUDING:

01:36:58 Russian Inter-title: Rome - Italian King receives German Crown Prince.

01:37:03 Ornate carriage arrives w/ officer & wife. Prince sets into a carriage & salutes, followed by King (?). Two women into another carriage, one w/ feather covered hat.

01:37:26

220930 20:14:11 - 20:29:33 1918 SIL B/W Where Italy Meets The Hun R1

INCLUDING:

20:16:44 Women clear Italian mountain roads of snow. Troops clearing snow. Red Cross ambulance drives past. LS troops digging after avalanche. Troops in snow shoes. Troops advance on horse carts and trucks.

20:18:36 Railroad guns put in place and fired at Austrian lines. Artillery emplaced on mountainside

20:21:22 MS convoy of trucks crosses bridge, Italian Alps. Armoured vehicles / early tanks drive past camera. CU troops riding on armoured car mounted w/ large gun, followed by others. Convoy of horse-drawn supply carts and trucks

20:22:53 Pack mules cross pontoon bridge over river, viaduct / rail bridge visible in distance. MCU pack mules being led past camera, mountain village in background.

20:24:50 Dogs loaded w/ ammo to carry across mountains.

20:25:28 Aerials of Italian troops building dam across river. Camouflaged pontoons for bridge hauled over mountain, lowered to river. Troops crossing completed bridge.

20:28:08 Aerial of barbed wire on Italian Alpine border. MS soldiers in mountain hideaway.

20:28:49 Red Cross medics w/ stretchers pulled by horses on Balkan front. Red Cross ambulance past camera.

221721 03:24:32- 03:31:59 1920s SIL B/W [1920s - Fiume & D’Annunzio; Mussolini; Maxim Gorky]

INCLUDING:

03:29:09 Crowd at base of ruins or ?? People, government workers?, marching past Coliseum; thru streets w/ placards & banners, some women. 03:29:57

221143-28 06:24:53 - 06:25:49 1931 SIL B/W Fascist Youths In First Public Appearance Since Controversy (1931) Italy

Large filled stadium w/ youths marching with banners around inside & across field. Mussolini w/ bandage on nose and in suit standing. Young women dancing on field in unison; young men doing callisthenics.

Black shirts;

221540-28 01:40:22 - 01:41:52 1931 SIL B/W Noted Resort Holds Lavish Midsummer Thanksgiving Fiesta

High angle of crowd & large animated floats; MCU w/ people dancing on floats, others follow in street.

01:40:53 Street level w/ musicians, women on float pas. Large paper mache figures walking w/ men guiding. Some w/ army helmets. Clowns on float, dragons, ghouls, etc.

Viareggio, Italy Festival; Celebration; 1930s;

NOTE: Burlamacco clown face was shown for first time in 1931.

221248-08 06:04:37 - 06:05:10 1934 SIL B/W [1934 - Italian Horse Jumping Competition]

Large crowd watching riding contest in park w/ large trees. Riders over jumps. Three women & elegant civilian man beside military officer. Mussolini watching from covered box. Elegant man waves while holding cigarette. LS of arena area looking at crowds beyond jumpers. Mussolini presenting large trophy; crowd applauding. Mussolini gives medal to rider.

Contest; Fascists; 1934; 1930s Italy;

200552-22 03:30:09 - 03:30:50 1936 SIL B/W Rigorous Drills Help Italy Find ?? Women

Women Fascists drill & exercise, Orvieto, Italy. Callsthenics. Very choreographed.

1936; Italian Military;

220769 03:07:41 - 03:08:08 1939 SIL B/W [70,000 Fascist Women Parade]

Huge parade in Rome, Italy. Women in military uniform, in regional costume. Huge crowd cheering. Mussolini on balcony

221549 17:28:59 - 17:44:52 194? SIL B/W S.I. Operations R2 of

INCLUDING:

LS Pan over city square, large number of people (poor quality). POWs marched past. Overhead shot of men packed into square behind barbed wire. Men entered into another pen from high angle.

17:30:25 Jeeps & truck w/ soldiers outside large house. POV following truck & trailer in convoy down rural road, passing jeeps etc. Convoy parking. Soldiers past.

17:31:26 Int. (dark).

17:31:46 Men sitting w/ papers at table, talking. Several women. Man at blackboard describing tank drawn. men & women taking notes. CU lecturer. Ext. Group coming out of building. 17:33:29

AND:

17:38:56 Men & women playing volleyball in field beside village. 17:40:03

NOTE: Poor focus & quality w/ graininess but usable as spy footage. Also occasional shutter problems.

221441 08:10:59 - 08:22:06 194?; 195? SD B/W Zinc Valley

Dir. Joe Falletta, Photography Massimo Sallusti.

Northern Italian foothills w/ mountains beyond. Steep valley, Val Seriana, w/ houses and small villages. Men going to & from work in zinc mine, walk up road carrying lights, up steep path; rail ore cart. Light lamp & enter tunnel & walk down steps cut into rock, to face & put on masks & pick up drills & begin working. Men pushing carts of ore.

08:14:40 View out of tunnel w/ ore carts pulled by small engine around hillside to dump into cable cars & to bottom of valley; POV along aerial cables & dumped into processor shaking out zinc. Women hand picking from conveyor belt. Crusher & large drums turning. Slurry w/ paddles & mud removed to another plant for extraction of zinc.

08:16:59

220993 06:43:57 - 06:52:06 1940 SD B/W Giornale Di Guerra No.68 [R1]

[Luce] Fascist Youth of the Gioventu Italiana del Littorio parade for Party Sec. and officials at Forli; older boys in uniform reviewed; shirtless boys w/ rifles and drums line up for review and march in goose-step style.

06:45:07 AV mountain village near Predil Pass; miners walk to mine, descend in lift; VS zinc and lead mining, miners w/ hand drills and larger pieces of machinery; crates of ore hoisted out of mine and up Teleferica cableway.

06:47:32 ‘Per I Nostri Soldati’ Bus pulls up, vars performers off to entertain Italian troops at request of Ministry of Culture; VS women apply make up, get dressed etc. Soldiers given fruit. Troops watch vars performances on stage w/ ‘OND’ banner above [’Opera Nazionale Dopolavoro’]: female singers and dancers, accompanied by band; vars singers w/ male compere sing w/ lyrics on large sheet for audience; comedy sketch; troops applaud; military band plays among audience.

221207-05 22:05:16 - 22:12:51

1940s sd B/W [Ardentine Massacre]

May be staged. Underground & performing autopsies on deteriiorated bodies; priest gives blessing. Cutting clothes off bodies; People looking at remains of clothing. Men unearthing pile of bodies buried in dirt; coffins carried. CU of list of prisoners killed 24Mar44. Remains of bodies in coffins as camera moves across.

22:07:10 Women over open wooden coffins as priest blesses. CU women’s faces. Woman carried out past crowd.

22:08:24 Ext. of trial building. Int. people; judges. CU of accused photo on card of Donato Carreto & Pietro Caruso. Into court room on crutches. Relatives into courtroom. Lawyers speaking & gesturing violently.

22:09:14 Woman gesturing to policeman. People mob the accused & beat him as he’s led out.

22:09:38 Prison from above. LS of Donato Carreto’s bloody body hanging on exterior of jail. Int. Pietro Caruso in bed; CU of face. Removed from van and walkingon crutches to chair in front of hillside w/ priest. Shot from behind by soldiers.

22:10:22 People walking, checkpoints & papers checked. Partisans reviewed. Archival footage of marching thru street w/ banner.

22:11:23 People moving in rural setting, in small town market, loading bags on trucks & resettling. Soldiers watching. Farmer plowing w/ oxen, planting. Village church, nuns w/ small kids. Title: The End The March of Time.

221693 20:00:06 - 20:16:09 1940s; 1944; SIL COL [1944 - WWII, American Flags in Algeria & Sicily]

Large 48 star American flag at half-staff in El Elia, Algeria cemetery; British flag flying in background. MCU.

INCLUDING:

20:10:33 Slate: Palermo, Sicily 26Apr44 Lt. W.R. Wilson. Sign at entrance to 206th Signal Depot Company w/ sentry posted. Mts behind. Volley ball game w/ soldiers, flag behind. Flag & soldiers past tents, railroad tracks & large building & other buildings behind; large mountains in background.

20:11:32 Sailors on small US naval ship (subchaser ?) in harbor, docked next to another, mts behind. Men cleaning ammunition. USA flag flying from balcony of building, sailors (wounded) & women on balcony.

20:12:08 Slate: Palermo, Sicily 28Apr44 Lt. Wilson. Sign: The Stars & Stripes on balcony w/ flag; Giornale above door. Another Italianate building w/ flag from balcony. American & British flags on Allied Control Commission (?) building. Flying from another unid. building balcony,.

20:13:03 Palermo harbor & US navy ships & amphibious float planes by airstrip. Unid. city location w/ mountains behind.

20:13:31 Slate: Palermo, Sicily 28Apr44 Lt. Wilson. City of Palermo from Monte Pellegrino w/ tall flag pole.

20:14:15 Flag outside stone (?) / stucco building w/ sign: Base Engineer Depot. Man walking past.

20:14:36 Subchasers in harbor w/ US flags, anti-aircraft artillery, sailors lower flags to half staff.

20:14:55 Slate: Palermo, Sicily 29Apr44 Lt. Wilson Flag over white crosses in US military cemeteries at Palmero & San Stefano.

20:15:44 US troops on parade in city, crowd watches from sidewalks. Unid building (airport?) w/ flags.

NOTE: Locations from NARA ARC description. Locations needs to be verified.

220976 13:00:00 - 13:11:12 1941c SD B/W Italian Newsreel Giornale #190

Luce

LS military line streets outside official building, title: ‘Cronaca di Roma’; open-top limo pulls up at University City, Dr. Walter Funk, Reichsminister for Economics, w/ Minister Riccardi greeted by Minister Bottai, German ambassador Mackensen and Rector ? Party reviews lines of troops and women in black dresses.

13:00:56

220591 18:10:48 - 18:15:00 1943 ? Sd B/W Sicily - The British 8th Army Sweeps up East Coast.

INCLUDING:

Off coast of Sicily Allied fleet comes under enemy air attack. Explosions as ships are bombed.

18:11:20 British 8th Army marching with full packs inland. Troops including Scottish walking along road. White flags of surrender flying in Russolini ? Italian officer - British troops drinking wine from pitchers. British troops continue North. Avola , Union Jack raised after being taken over. British army tanks and military equipment down streets of Avola. 8th Army soldiers sharing chocolate with women and children. US airborne troops on horse and cart enter Avola. British troops hand out food from captured German food stores to locals. 18:12:46

221073 04:48:15 - 04:58:22 1944 si B/W [Rome Liberated - WACS in Italy]

05-06Jun44 American soldier greeting junior Roman Catholic priests in St. Peter’s Square, Vatican City. Italian [?] soldier reading something to priests and pointing to balcony. Nun escorted through crowd by US troops - Black priest talking to troops - crowds in square - troops off truck. Close shot two priests talking. St Peter’s Square crowds gathered. Women on steps reading bible. Army chaplain with Italian priests. Young boy with binoculars - people standing on cart for better view.

04:53:18 US soldier sitting w/ arm round little boy, St. Peter’s Square crowds behind. Crowds clapping and cheering - Italian military officers [some soft focus]. Children looking up waiting for Pope Pius to appear [no shots of Pope].

04:54:27 American women soldiers WACS pose for camera on dock - good shots - WACS away from dock past crowd of GIs. Military trucks past shell-damaged buildings. Female troops resting under trees reading letters. WACS clearing ground with pick axe - tents - setting up camp - into shelter / fox hole.

WWII. Italian Campaign. Victory Celebrations. Women at War.

220334 19:25:27 - 19:27:23 1944 Sd b/w General Mud

Film Communique Sixth Issue R1 of 2

US army camp w/ tents in muddy fields in Italy; women walking between tents. Jeep up deep ruts, military equipment & trucks thru deep mud. Truck stuck in mud & hauled out by wrecker / breakdown vehicle. Upside down truck; artillery & trucks off road. Troops digging out trucks up to knees in mud. Tanks stuck in muddy river. Bulldozer pushing mud. Blasting mountain; crushing rocks & roadbuilding. trucks etc on road.

220441 08:16:28 - 08:27:40 1944 si B/W WWII - Italy - Troops Advancing to Front

People by stone buildings. Trucks, jeeps & men through narrow streets. Kids & women walk through rubble. GIs looking at map have maple leaf (?) on helmets. Washing up at pump. Passing out tins of food. MCU of men sitting; smoking cigarette & cigars. Men drinking from pump as man cranks. Jeep & troops walking through village. Walking up dusty road toward camera, both sides of road. Lines of mules lead right to left in foreground & left to right on upper ridge. MCU past camera on bend in road with tarps over packs. Medic jeep past & horse & mule led. GI w/ cigarette riding horse leading mules. Troops moving up. Jeep driver w/ goggles. Trucks & jeeps over filled cut. Men advance down gully tapes; Up hill past camera. Lines on road toward camera moving to front w/ ammo & rifles. Marzbotto sign & men resting. Walking down into town. Eating while walking.

220512 04:13:01 - 04:22:40 1944 Si B/W Florence, Italy & destroyed bridges & buildings. August 1944

GVs River Arno, People cross river on Weir. Ponte Vecchio bridge visible in background, only bridge still standing. Street scenes with bicycles and horse drawn carriage and pedestrians, Curfew sign on wall in background. Carabinieri ( police ) checking civilians passes as they walk through No Man’s Land into Florence. People standing on Ponte Vecchio looking across river to ruined houses. Close rear shot old man and small boy on bridge looking at bomb damaged buildings. Sign Ponte Vecchio. Various shots locals walking through rubble. On the outskirts of Florence the Germans are holding 1000 Italian refugees in deplorable conditions in concentration camp. Some are escaping via a sewer. Shots Refugees escorted down road led to safety by patriots. Brigadier Hume 5th Army AMG talking to refugees and giving them cigarettes. Shot of refugees coming out of manhole cover escorted to safety. Top shot River Arno Palestinians (Jewish Brigade? members of RASC) distribute water to peasants - Chianti flasks used as water containers. Women doing laundry at outdoor well

220471 07:34:35 - 07:36:25 1944 SD B/W War Flashes of Action

RAF Strafes Nazi Convoy. Low-level air attack off coast of Holland. POV from planes strafing. Planes shoot rockets (GOOD).

07:35:18 Negro troops In Action. 92nd Regiment in Italy. Firing. Thru small town. Shake hands w/ liberated local women. General Mark Clark decorates wounded Black soldiers in hospital tents. Firing big artillery guns.

07:36:01 New jungle Flame Thrower. Demonstration of new weapon used in Pacific.

220472 09:46:59 - 09:47:50 1944 SD B/W Honour For Men Who Fought And Died At Anzio

Italian women and children bring flowers to American military cemetery. US soldiers choose flowers and place on graves. WACS and army nurses putting flowers and wreaths on graves.

220473 11:16:32 - 11:18:05 1944 SD B/W Tragedy Of War (Italian Refugees)

11:16:37 Title: “Cassino Refugees.”

11:16:40 LS & MCUs Civilian women, children & old men walking w/ bags & boxes thru woods & along mountain road, escaping ruins after battle. Mother and small child. CU feet wrapped in rags. Enter ruined house in nearby town. Child into house. CU kid on parents shoulders.

11:17:07 Title: “Anzio Beachhead.”

11:17:10 Families of refugees on road in carts w/ belongings. Ox-pulled cart. CU crying child hugged by another. Refugees evacuated on American army trucks & onto LSTs to Naples. POV from ship. Families aboard ships eating. View of Mt. Vesuvius over top of army trucks on deck.

11:17:55 MCU Refugees on board in sunshine; waving from shipboard & disembarking w/ belongings in Naples.

220527 23:46:07 - 23:54:56 1944 SD b/w Army Navy Screen Magazine No 32

Normandy Invasion - D-Day

INCLUDING:

23:50:41 4th June - Americans enter Rome. Various signs Roma. Tanks and military vehicles on road. (Briefly out of rack) Crowds outside Colosseum / Coliseum welcome American soldiers. Scots guards playing bagpipes parade. Italian women and girls welcome troops. Various shots as 5th army move towards centre. Good CU happy faces of locals. Local girls riding on tank. Locals tear down German posters.

23:52:52 Crowds in St Peter’s Square - Vatican. Pope Pius on balcony gives blessing. Church bells ringing. 23:53:31

220785 00:21:56 - 00:32:56 1944 SD B/W San Pietro - Reel 3

Dir: John Huston

142nd Regiment. troops advance, reach the summit of Mount Lungo, enter San Pietro and check buildings for German troops and booby traps. Dead are removed, shrouded, and buried in graves dug by civilians. Name plates and dog tags are nailed to grave markers. Villagers reenter San Pietro, remove dead and injured from a collapsed building, clear rubble, and receive food. Women nurse babies and children play. Oxen pull a plow. New crops and religious procession amidst rubble.

200551 09:01:09 - 09:01:57 1944 SD B/W AMG Rescues War Victims in Italy

Italian refugees rescued from Cassino and Anzio. Refugees, mostly women and children struggle along road with belongings. Woman with rags round feet.

09:01:30 Military trucks. Troops giving tins of food to starving refugees. CU small crying boy. More crying children. Military trucks with refugees boarding landing craft which will take them to Naples.

200551 09:10:14 - 09:11:26 1944 SD B/W Bread for Italians

Flour store in Italy with bags of flour from Canada and USA. Italians making bread. Women queue outside shop, Interior shop as bread is weighed. Italian family enjoying bread and wine.

220806 10:20:46 - 10:27:53 1944 SIL B/W [Monte Cassino] - some good aerials

Feb44

US troops on mountainside and vehicles on roadside. Aerial Monte Cassino Abbey. Ammunition. Troops resting. Destruction on road. Troops and vehicle on road. Huge piles of empty shells. Aerial village. Tanks and soldiers resting on tanks. Troops past village women washing laundry. Good aerial village. Aerials monastery.

Troops on road. Destruction in valley.

10:26:15 Troops searching dead German? Pan over valley.

220806 10:34:22 - 10:41:56 1944 SIL B/W [Monte Cassino] - good GVs of area

Feb44

Aerials village. Troops and villagers on road. LS village. Monte Cassino Monastery incl. aerials. Allied troops firing guns in valley and on road. Tanks. Assault on monastery - explosions and flak. Clearing huge piles of empty shells.

High altitude aerials of monastery and village. Mark Clark with troops putting hands up. Men resting on tanks. Men sleeping in ditches by roadside. Troops walk past village women washing laundry. GVs valley and monastery. Troops on mountainside keeping watch.

220806 11:15:50 - 11:25:05 1944 SIL B/W [Cassino Bombardment]

Monastery bombarded. Firing big guns. Soldier in empty, wrecked building. GVs valley and vehicles on road. Snowy mountain. Loading shells into truck. Shelling of castle? Wrecked hangar and ruined houses. Italian women on road carrying bundles on head escorted by US troops (refugees).

220883 21:09:21 - 21:22:13 1944 SIL COL [WWII - 1944, Flight of the Frightful Old Pig R3 Pt 2]

INCLUDING:

21:16:00 San Severo Airfield. Map showing area - Aircraft on field. Brief tracking shot along road. Street scene San Severo. Locals including children in market square. Horse drawn funeral carriage? Men and women on street. CU childrens faces. Pan round buildings. Sign over door 4th Photo. Tech. Sq.

21:19:24 Sign 90th P.W.R. Dispensary. American Military Personnel only. Ambulances outside building. Sign Sergeants Mess. Large building (very dark) 21:20:19

NOTE: Any continuous ten minutes sold at per reel rate.

221210 04:11:33 - 04:19:48 1944 Si b/w [Allied Occupation of Rome & Electrical Power Restoration; Building RR] (Sep44)

INCLUDING:

04:17:28 Military trucks over Bailey Bridge in front of higher bridge under reconstruction. MS of men pouring concrete, moving timbers; women carrying rock in baskets on heads on road project. Dumping on stone pile. Carrying large rocks on head.

221206 21:21:25 - 21:30:45 1944 si B/W Easter Services for 45th Div Men, Anzio, Nettuno Beachead Area

US Army Field Service seen from rear under large barren trees & beside a few tents. Chaplain standing speaking. Men sitting on ground listening, all White.

21:22:05 Men w/ bowed heads. Longer shot w/ man playing small organ. All bow heads. Mean walking away, others arriving. Windy. More shots. MCU of bowed heads.

21:24:51 Different service, under pine trees. Easter service w/ Catholic (?) Chaplin under draped tarp, w/ organist beside. Much gesturing. Stacks of crates nearby.

21:25:47 Coastal caves & Catholic Mass seen from above. CU w/ some women present. Priest gives wafer. CU of GIs.

21:27:51 Easter Services for 249th QM BN, Anzio.

Blacks w/ Black Chaplin at service. Sitting on blocks & boxes, heads bowed. Singing & praying below canyon wall or quarry. GOOD CUs. White officer speaking.

221206 21:38:35 - 21:40:47 1944 si B/W [Italian Refugee Camp]

Pan over tents - food line alongside barbed wire fence. Italians served food by American army. Refugees eating includes women & children. Red Cross nurses handing out clothes to refugees; refugees get injections. Registration. Man handed blanket.

221418-07 10:42:46 - 10:53:44 1944 Sd/Sil B/W [WWII - Arno River, Florence, Italy, Building Bailey Bridge 03-05Sep44; Lucca; Purple Heart Award]

MCU Men & women watching, bridge partially across. CU sparks from grinding (night?). Day & people on bicycles, jeeps, US army officers inc. Gen. Mark Clark riding across in first jeep. Standing looking. Pinning medal on ?. Men watch as he drives off, saluting. CU man w/ medal, salutes.

10:45:45 Women & men Italian resistance fighters (?) marching w/ Red flag as people watch. Carry sign: Divisione Arno, Brigata Garibaldi Brun Faneiullacci.

10:46:31 High angle of large group. Reviewed by Allied officers, many wounded. British Officer at microphones (MOS) as resistance fighters listen. Man given large bundle of papers.

10:47:23 Flag of ?? Italian at mic. Others listen. Men & women w/ bicycles riding, walking past. US soldiers put food put into pans, when finished young run to get it. Women & children eating. US soldiers trying to get them to leave.

10:49:43 Black troops thru Italian town street carrying rifles & bazookas. Alongside roadside waiting & firing.

CU black firing rifle. Firing bazooka, view of smoke rising.

10:50:50 Slate: Troops in Lucca Girls waving small flags. Captured prisoner put into jeep under guard, waves as they leave. US troops walking up road thru city wall entrance. Looking at wall poster: Hurrah For Te Gallant Fighters For National Liberation. Hurrah for the Fifth Army. Troops talking to people. Girls given cigarettes. POV thru cheering women, men, flags. Dark street.

10:53:03 Slate: 29Aug44 Sd. Gen. Clark talking to patient in hospital bed & awarding Purple Heart as nurse watches.

NOTE: some of reel is dark & soft focus but good action.

X 221287 18:16:16 - 18:41:01 1944 ca SIL COL [Italy WWII Color Home Movies] Pt. 1 of 3

Large Italian monumental fascist Victory Arch. Across it: “Caserta Ai Suoi Eroi” beneath statue of Italian soldier.

18:16:50 Jeep past on rocky road lined w/ olive (?) trees. Jeep approaches camera. Two British sailors (?) & two women walking w/ dog up road on rocky hillside past camera & keep walking. POV from jeep along road, w/ mountains beyond. Meeting truck on narrow road. Three men in horse or donkey pulled wagon down road. Steep rocky hillside.

18:20:33 POV from DC3 (?) past engine flying over land. View from cockpit behind pilots. POV out side window low over Italy countryside & buildings in early morning light. Along railroad. View from cockpit w/ sea visible. Dark. Fighter plane taxiing, another flying over.

18:22:44 Bright sunshine & Army Air Force fighters taxing. Man walking past sign to tent: Transient Personnel Report Here Telephone, Mess, and Transportation. Airman runs up, gets book & runs back (gag?)

Men by runway w/ fighters warming up & taxiing away for take off (not seen). Wrecked plane visible.

18:25:00 Men watching bulldozer alongside runway, planes moving. Heavy smoke in background. Fighters over in formation. Planes on runway. POV from plane past bombers parked w/ wrecked hanger behind. POV from plane over countryside fields, shadow on ground. POV over large farm buildings & along coast.

18:29:04 Posters on wall of FDR, Churchill, an Italian & boot stomping on Italy. Two women along front of building past barbed wire barricade. City square w/ pedestrians & traffic (dark). Men towards camera. Large statue on pedestal w/ people sitting at base, pan around park. Bus stop for Pompeii.

18:30:43 Men & women (black market?) on sidewalk (brief).

18:31:16 Ext. building w/ crest above door (very dark. Street from upper window w/ pedestrians; buildings dmagaed. American military women walking. Carved sone on top of church (?). Large buildings w/ heavy bomb damage. US servicemen past in horse cart. Soldier shaving seen from behind w/ small mirror hanging on window.

18:33:26 Large ash cloud from volcano eruption, Vesuvius (?); servicemen watch from across valley.

18:35:32 Pan over bombed village on hillside. View along & from. US army jeep w/ two men. Villagers shoveling rubble. Jeeps & trucks on road. Mine warning sign. Heavy rubble along coast; bombed town & docks. Army trucks past w/ sodliers in back. Women & men walking past. POV from jeep along damaged stone walls. Women carrying packages on head. Large cart pulled by horse. Overhead shot of couple riding in horse cart.

18:38:45 Large building w/ 3 flags on tall poles: U.S., British & Italian (?). Many military vehicles parked & passing; civilian & military pedestrians. US sailors & soldiers; view around square & buildings. (GOOD)

X 221287 18:41:16 - 18:57:47 1944 ca SIL COL [Italy WWII Color Home Movies] Pt. 2 of 3

Woven straw souvenirs of Naples on monument base; women sitting beside table w/ woven bags hanging on wall. Street sign pointing ahead: BR. C.M.P Infm. Bureau, Salerno, Avellino, Caserta, Capua

18:41:47 Elaborate hearse past pulled by two horses w/ attendant on back. Fruit sellers beside road w/ stands. View beneath front of fighter airplane w/ RAF (?) markings; LS of man warming it up & taxiing across pasture field.

18:42:47 Large ornate Italian building. US airmen look at wrecked military equipment, artillery, shells. Bullet marked sign; Roma 52.6 Terracina 50.2 (opposite directions), heavy damaged buildings behind. Views of destroyed buildings along road & traffic past. GOOD destruction shots. Planes flying low behind. Road sign Cisterna. Two AAF men walk past; traffic on road.

18:44:12 Flooded farm house. POV from car along buildings & destruction. Bullet marks on buildings, windows blown out, collapsed. Tanks in water at edge of road & sea. Road sign: Terracina; seen (leaving). Following jeep or ? pulling artillery. Shot of wheel turning on pavement (upside down).

18:46:12 Soldiers taking picture outside basilica, two women walk past; boy standing nearby. Roof dome w/ ornate statues & tiles. Priests walk past. Woman in shawl carring child. School children. Church school (?).

Wrought iron gate: Conotredome d’Afrique and Catholic church building w/ towers. African woman in robes entering. Old men sitting on foundation. Town from hilltop.

18:50:20 US airmen beside small monoplanes w/ ? markings. Tents around small airstrip. City on hillside. French advertising sign on building. View of city buildings from room window. Backlighted clouds; other cumulus clouds over tile rooftops. Men repairing top of chimney.

18:53:20 View of very straight road across park like field running to mountain beyond. Soldiers talking to women & men on rooftop. One in soldier uniform w/ beard; pan across. Other shots over roofs. Soldier taking still picture of another; one turns around, motion picture camera mounted on tripod.

18:54:43 CUs flowers, pan to stone wall & two soldiers walk along, stop for cigarette & leave. Two young boys wave to camera.

18:55:56 Small building: Foyer Soldat Douanes (customs?). CU GI smoking, looking & camera bag. Sitting on wall w/ sea behind & several other officers. Pose & look at their still cameras.

H1491-09 04:11:15 - 04:19:35 1944; SIL B/W USA; Belgium; Italy; WWII - 1944, Belgium: Infantry Attack, Beffe; Christmas Party for Italian Orphans, Montecatini, Italy]
LIB 1974. Infantry dug into deep snow; kneeling, standing & firing from hilltop. MS & MCU.
04:14:36 Soldier crawling in snow. CU wounded (?).
04:14:55 Two soldiers behind barbed wire fire bazooka & rifle; man crawls to wounded or dead.
04:15:36 GIs w/ Italian orphans at table giving gifts of cookies or ??. Pose w/ girl holding present & nuns and other children.
04:17:03 MCU GIs w/ girl w/ present & cookies or candy.
04:17:24 MS of others w/ woman & soldiers; MCU boy eating, another drinking from tin cup.
04:19:03 GI playing piano w/ kids beside & soldiers singing (MOS).
WW2; Winter Fighting; Battle; Children; Kids; Belgium; Italy;

H1149-01 02:00:09 - 02:11:05 1944; SD B/W [WWII - 1944, German Newsreel, Monte Cassino, Italy; Vatican; Russian Front]

Titles.

02:00:30 New recruits in the Dutch Workers Service presented w/ symbolic shovels to work for “New Germany”

02:00:49 Greek Orthodox (aka Greek Catholic) religious ceremony in Serbia. Serbian national dance in courtyard marks end of Slav festival.

02:01:24 Yacht race off Malaga in Spain.

02:01:33 Czech soldiers demonstrate skiing in High Tatras mountains; officers watch.

02:01:47 French fishing boats set sail, leaving harbor; under German motor torpedo boat protection. Commentary suggests PT boat protection is to prevent the French from escaping across Channel. Twin anti-aircraft guns on larger ship (GOOD CUs) fire at Allied bomber.

02:03:10 On board French fishing boat, herring sorted & salted. Drying fish in ovens.

02:03:27 Trieste - Italian army celebrate Catholic mass on parade ground. Men swear allegiance to flag. MCU Officer speaking (MOS), kissing flag.

02:04:10 Map of Italy & Corsica. Southern Italian front. German reenforcements moving up, supplies. Provisions by donkey along ridge, to mountain positions. Bread taken into foxhole. German artillery & planes overhead.

02:05:16 OSS commentary says following footage in German newsreel is religious propaganda. Monte Cassino monastery before bombing. Bombing & ruins of Abbey at Cassino. OSS commentary says the Abbey was being used as an observation post for German military purposes. Monk, Abbot of Monte Cassino walking w/ German officers, into car, arriving Vatican City. Sign.

02:06:29 Castel Gandolfo in ruins, OSS commentary says German commentary said there were 15,000 women & children refugees lost in the raid. Bodies of dead children on roadside. Stretcher carried from rubble of village.

02:06:58

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220471 07:15:37 - 07:16:10 1945 SD B/W G.I.s Relax In Venice

GIs in uniform & civilian clothes on gondolas. Man on gondola holds two women in uniform w/ gondolier at back poling & musician playing accordion. Larger boats full of American soldiers on grand canal. DUKWs w/ soldiers on canal.

220685 00:20:25 - 00:26:30 1945 SIL B/W 92nd Div. Parade and Ceremony - Genoa / Fascists Surrender

Troops march towards camera. Legs marching. Italian resistance ? in parade. Top shot Italian escorting prisoner - walking along with hands raised. Officers standing on street. Women in car - prisoners ? .

00:22:59

221034 09:24:39 - 09:25:46 1946 c SIL B/W [Italian War Brides ? Boarding Ship]

Line of women - Italian war brides ? - boarding ship, some with babies, checked off list. VS women waving from decks.

250082-08 19:01:56 - 19:08:31 1947; SIL B/W Italy; Trieste; Yugoslavia; USSR; [Post-War - 1947, Italy: Communist Graffiti; Party Meeting in Trieste.]
CU Torino, Italy. Former Fascist inscriptions & new Communist ones. Large wall graffiti: Duce E Italia. VLA Republica D’Stalin; man walks past; walks past other. Various shots of graffiti on walls w/ hammer & sickle, lamppost w/ traffic & pedestrians. Wall w/ St. Peter’s Basilic & pedestrians. Graffiti: Tito This is Yugoslavia. Aquaduct w/ Tito letters above supports. Building: We will live in Jugoslavia. Christian Democratic posters w/ symbol bearing word Libertas behind the Vatican.
19:04:29 slug
19:04:31 Trieste. LS 1930s office building, home of new Communist Party of Trieste, Communist & flags of Italy, Slovenia & Croatia on roof; crowd in street below. Inscription in Italian & Slovenian.
19:05:51 Interior: Stage w/ Communist Party Committee on stage below banner of Stalin, Engels, Marx & Lenin w/ speakers at podium, MOS.
19:06:38 Principal members of committee at table, l-r: Oliva Adriano (Italian), Drasic Carlo (Slovenian), Bernetic Marina (Slovenian women), Lipovec Francsco (Slovenian), Bajo Giovanni (Croatian). Audience shots w/ LS, MS & CUs.
19:08:02 Picture of Tito above flags; picture of Palmiro Togliatti, leader of Italian Communist Party.
19:08:11 Flags draped from balcony, CU w/ slogan: Long Live To the Italo-Sloven Fraternity.
Post-WW2 Communism; Soviet Influence; Cold War;

220706-09 03:20:14 - 03:25:35 1947 SIL B/W [Post-WWII - 1947, Allied Occupation of Italy - Morgan Line

Castle of Gorizia with US flag flying. Rear view US soldier sitting on high wall of castle using field telephone. Front view same. Two soldiers in street talking to local women in upstairs window. Large sign at demarcation line in three languages “Limit of Zone of British-American occupation”. This is the Italian - Yugoslavian border. Man having suitcase searched by US soldiers. Woman crossing border having papers checked. Other people & cars thru border - US soldiers & Italian Customs officers. Lorry / truck across border. US flag flying. Troops search in field - US Sgt. showing two soldiers the limit of their jurisdiction.

03:24:50 British outpost - Union Jack flying - soldiers relax at tables. Italian customs men and English soldier checking papers of women.

250011-02 21:07:31 - 21:09:15 1948 SD B/W Title.

21:07:37 Large crowd in square. Many men & women from sidewalk thru doorway; other old people to polls, carried on stretchers as people watch outside.

21:07:56 Two Italian soldiers w/ microphones in turret of tank, others run to jeeps.

21:08:01 Interior w/ voting.

21:08:05 Large freighter in harbor; overhead of demonstrators marching w/ placards, banners thru city streets.

21:08:26 MCU Prime Minister Alcide De Gasperi voting; Catholic monks in robes. Others into polling place.

21:08:43 Communist candidate Palmiro Togliatti at microphone; demonstrators out of truck; CU of poster. Montage of crowds voting & people waiting for results.

NOTE: Very anti-communist narration.

X 221640 15:27:36 - 15:37:39 1949 SD COL Ancient Rome

Coronet Instructional Films

15:27:55 Woman teacher writing on blackboard: “Our Heritage from Ancient Rome.” & pulls down map showing Rome & Italy.

15:28:20 LS across Rome from hilltop; boy looking at ruins; pan over city & bridge over Tiber River. Mouth of Tiber River & docks.

15:29:00 Pan over Ostia rooftops & ruins.

15:29:12 Map of Mediterranean & Europe. Stone paving blocks of Roman road, Appian way. Cart & cart along road.

15:29:56 Museum exhibit of Roman war chariot; frieze or carving of Roman soldiers. Monument, triumphal arch & people walking thru. Large ruins of Roman Forum. Model of ancient roman forum.

15:30:50 LS of Forum w/ city beyond; MS & CUs of ruins of temples; statues of vestal virgins.

15:31:56 CUs & MSs: statue of Emperor Trajan; statue of Marcus Aurelius on horseback; statue of Caesar Augustus; Palentine Hill ruins; public baths ruins & model.

15:33:28 Aquaduct remains, w/ MS of arch. CU & tilt up column. Domed roof on columns.

15:34:16 Pan across large ruins; other vistas & details.

15:34:47 Museum displays of furnishing, kitchen utensils, cooking containers, oil lamps, decorative dishes.

Roman warehouse & jugs for storage; scales & abacus.

15:35:37 Tilt up sculpture showing toga robes; women’s dress. CU statue heads of man, children, wax tablet & letters. Enscribed base of ??.

15:36:22 Amphitheater ruins; model of theatre w/ covered stage. Open air amphitheater.

221537 20:37:16 - 20:38:19 1950 SD B/W [Warner Pathe News Magazine Of The Screen] title missing

Ancient Volcano Erupts Again, An

Villagers watch molten lava running down Mt. Etna hillside setting brush fires. Refugees leave w/ cars, women cry, trucks loaded w/ household goods. People praying. Dramatic & good footage.

Volcanic Eruption; Peasants; Catholic; Natural Disaster; 1950s; 1950;

221104 10:22:00 - 10:32:54 1950 SD B/W Emilia [Part 2 of 2]

INT factory - workers making ? w/ American machines - Italian foreman trained in Detroit speaks to camera re how machines funded by ECA have speeded up manufacturing, trans. by narrator; CUs machine tools at work. INT tractor factory - rows of finished vehicles.

10:24:45 Fishing village on sea coast of Emilia region south of Po River estuary - boats w/ white sails - CUs fresh fish, eels, shrimp etc. Marshy area - fisherman push boats through mudflats. Sign ‘Comacchio’ - fishing village on marshes - CUs villagers. Land reclamation in process - drainage channels being built - water pipes fitted etc. Women preparing soil in reclaimed field. Water control station; CU sign ‘Quest’Opera E Finanziata Con Il Fondo Lire E.R.P.’ Sluice opened - drainage channel fills up - bulldozers at work. New housing settlement for workers - Regional Director at window of office, turns to talk to camera - pan to workers & trucks passing by.

10:31:21 Row of women tilling soil. Planting of first vines. Fields full of first crops.

221552 23:10:24 - 23:20:42 1950 ca. SD B/W Aquila R1 of 2

23:11:39 Tilt down ornate columned town hall, small group of people gathered in front. Int. employment office w/ men in, present card to man reading newspaper at desk who stamps, initials & takes down binder, shakes head & man leaves, walks street. Children on carousel w/ man past. Dock gate closed w/ guards. 23:14:17 People walking, gather in rain for demonstration in city square; speaker, flags, pan women listening holding umbrellas. MCU speaker; listeners applauding.

23:16:01 MCU feet walking on pavement, thru grass.

23:16:33 Man at construction site, watches man arrive; gestures no work. Man walks thru war ruins along coast. Kids playing around beached boat, deserted warehouses. Man walks off w/ boy to woman holding baby. Shipyard cranes behind. They go into house, wash for meal, wife serves bowls at table to man & son. CU boy eating; MCU baby crying in basket. CU parents picture; wife cries; boy drinks from bowl; father leaves.

Marshall Plan Film; Neo-Realism; Neo-Realist; Italian; Italy; Trieste (?); ca 1950; 1940s; 1950s; Documentary;

221552 23:21:02 - 23:31:51 1950 ca. SD B/W Aquila R2 of 2

Man walking, docks & railroad yards behind; thru empty city streets. Ext. Perugina store w/ well-dressed woman & boy out, into new Ford car, wooden station wagon. Man breaks window, steals book. Chased by policeman thru streets as people watch. Others join chase & caught by policemen in jeep who take him away.

23:23:11 Police station & policeman at desk looks at book, then man; checks his papers & contents of billfold; sends him away. Man down endless steps.

23:24:58 Italian newspaper headline. CU ECA symbol on building. Men looking at table top plans w/ flags & cameramen; man signing aid check.

23:25:44 MCU brass band playing. Ship crane unloading crates marked ECA Aquila from ship, USNS Pvt. William H. Thomas, w/ US flag in CU. Women watching, laughing. Crates moved on dock.

23:26:43 Fuel trucks past, large oil storage tanks. Men unloading crates, sacks of flour or cement, men sawing boards. Steel plates hoisted & placed for petroleum storage tanks; welded. Construction of oil refinery.

23:28:39 Man presents papers & hired, others wait & watch. Tilt up completed refinery, man walking among pipes & tanks, turning handles.

23:30:20 Workers leaving refinery; man walking home past election sign; runs greeting wife & children.

23:30:58 Fuel trucks leaving refinery; along highway thru countryside & towns w/ Aquila on trucks. The End.

221010 02:18:40 - 02:29:12 1950s Sd b/w Land of Apulia

Pan down whitewashed village church tower to row of women sitting at tables cracking nuts / shelling almonds and singing. Narration re poverty in region.

02:20:32 Accordian player walking through mountains with group of unemployed young men w/ farm tools looking for work. Village street, statue of Roman poet Horace, women drawing water from well, bucket of water used to water plants - irrigation / water shortage.

02:21:55 Crowds gathered in village square to celebrate the opening of water standpipe. Dignitory walking through square and getting water from tap. Running water to Italian villages has been made possible by Marshall Plan. Horse drinking water; girl drinking water from running tap.

02:22:38 Drought - dried up river beds. River in full flood two months a year. Sign ‘Torrente Sanore’. Flooded countryside.

02:23:10 Work being carried out on river beds, building walls to contain flood water - Construction work. Building houses. Woman getting bucket of water from standpipe. Salt marshland.

02:24:35 Village - church bell ringing. Religious procession - villagers carrying statue of Jesus and farming tools. Catholic Priest holds service on edge of marshes. Men sowing by hand on newly reclaimed land. Rain / storms. Men in streets watching rain; faces up to sky. Salvaged areas once again salt marsh - crops lost.

02:28:04 New agricultural machinery courtesy of the Marshall Plan. Bulldozers in line moving into area to reclaim land permanently.

220847 08:23:22 - 08:34:00 1950s Sd b/w Italy Today

Police man on point duty directing traffic. Heavy traffic - street scenes - pavement cafes. Pedestrians / shoppers. Magazine stall. Tourists - buildings.

08:25:00 Fashion - model showing cocktail dress. Woman trying on jewellery - diamonds.

08:25:29 Night shots streets ( short ) Interior nightclub, people dancing to Latin American band.

08:25:52 Day shots - smoking chimneys - industry. Man using acetylene. Interior - women sorting wool ? for weaving. Men and women with weaving looms. Fashion industry - sewing room - designer. Men making shoes. Dentist inspecting false teeth

08:26:57 interior shop, couple feeling blanket before buying. Man paying money into bank ?

08:27:27 Couples on motor scooters - seven scooters drive off. Man on scooter getting petrol. Parking area for scooters. Parking area for cars. Crowds entering football stadium. Football match - starts to rain - umbrellas put up.

08:28:21

X 221391 03:52:09 - 03:01:40 1951 SD COL Venice: Queen City of the Adriatic (main title missing)

Encyclopaedia Britannica Films (title missing)

Small vessels on canals - VO re wooden pilings used to form foundations for city. Historical map of Italy showing invasions, trade routes & growth of Venice.

03:54:09 St. Mark’s Square & Doge’s Palace seen from canal - St. Mark’s Cathedral in Byzantine style. Venetian Arsenal where warships built. High angle shot Grand Canal. Rialto Bridge. Merchants’ palaces. 03:56:21 Map showing reduction of Venice’s power & incorporation into new nation of Italy.

03:56:56 Venice street / canal scenes, bridges, pedstrians, goods & freight moved in barges. Steam launch ferry along Grand Canal - canalside market. Farms on Venetian islands. Fishing.

03:58:30 Making Venitian ornamental glass. Lacemaking. Freighters & docks loading. Causeway from mainland & garage for tourists to store cars. PoV from gondola. Palaces converted into museums & hotels.

04:00:14 Man feeding pigeons in St. Mark’s Square - huge flock. Beach on Venice Lido - women & children in swimming costumes. High shot St. Mark’s Square. Montage canal scenes, lace & glass making etc.

221260 05:58:08 - 06:07:26 1951 SD B/W Trieste To Lampedusa R1 of 2

Pan over harbor of Trieste w/ fishing boats leaving dock. Marshall Plan built fishing boats. Map showing route to Lampedusa between Sicily & Africa. Village rooftops & harbor, sheep grazing; shepherd boy w/ lamb around neck. Stone village w/ women spinning wool, CU w/ kids. Family making cheese. Fishermen mending nets beside cactus, grass. Men carry nets to water to work on Trieste boats, kiss wife goodbye, walk past stone walls.

06:02:08 Fishing boats tied togetehr in harbor, seen from water; men working on boats getting ready to sail. Rigging, boats out to sea, thru water; kids wave from shore. CUs. Men rowing in rowboats, pulling in nets & gathering small catch.

06:04:05 Men working on boats, at wheel, smoking cigarettes, cooking in galley, grinding coffee, reading, working on engine. Putting out nets & pulling in. Glass floats. Nets onto ship & raised & opened. Octopus, squid, small fish gathered into boxes & wire buckets, hosed & sorted. Sea gulls behind boat. Tieing glass floats to net.

221687 08:19:16 - 08:20:10 1951 SD B/W Title: News In Brief

08:19:20 CU rapids. LS Lake Como w/ people around shore where river has washed out land. CUs women & men.

08:19:35 Partially destroyed house, men removing broken wall. Woman looking at ruined home. CU destroyed water pipe wrapped around tree. Man shoveling mud out of house or barn.

08:19:52 Dead cattle. CU sorrowful woman holding child. Running water passed washed out foundation. Men moving large rocks in river.

08:20:06 People walking along street littered w/ boards, rocks & mud.

250082-03 18:21:17 - 18:29:10 1952 SD B/W Italy; R3 of 3
Large ship at dock under construction; men w/ metal sections & pounding rivet by hand. Men construction buildings; building housing; apartment houses.
18;22:12 Modern designed Rome Termini railroad station; street newspaper kiosks,men reading newspapers. MCU. Faces listening to various political speakers at microphone. Loud speaker. Long shot of large crowd filling street.
18:23:39 Magazine kiosk, bookstore & people browsing / shopping for books,
18:24:12 Delivery truck w/ movie advertisement on side. Large film poster being put on wall.
18:24:22 Film set w/ Anna Magnani, Jean Renoir and Vittorio De Sica at work. Film sound recording; actors on set. Gina Lollobrigida recording ono tape recorder in her home (?) w/ voice over translation to Engllish on the arts in a free country & how they are attracting world-wide audiences. Images of Carlo Levi & Alberto Moravia; ??; De Sica looking at 35mm film held up to the light. speaks on the Italian film industry. Scenes of Anna Magnani, Jean Renoir and Vittorio De Sica at work.
18:26:39 Crowded street w/ truck & buses, man pulling cart, people riding motorscooters & bicycles.. Camra moving thru textile factory past looms. Men & women pulling rope; men working at heavy industry, in steel mill; machine tools; farmers in CU.
18:28:13 title: Strength For The Free World over industry & military scenes., fishing, eating, working. Abrupt end.
Italy Daily Life; 1950s; Post-WWII Economic Rebuilding; Post-WW2 Economy; Slums; Poverty; Agriculture; Heavy Industry; Motion Pictures; Actors; Directors; Propaganda; Aid;

X 221218 19:28:29 - 19:44:54 1952 SD COL Italy: Peninsula of Contrast

Encyclopaedia Britannica Films

Map of Mediterranean Sea & Italy, country outline fades to picture of boot. Montage: coastal village, snowy mountains, farming, modern apartments, Roman ruins of the Forum w/ Victor Emmanuele Monument in BG. Map of Italy, Alps. Highland farmers on mountain slopes, restaurant sign in Italian & German. CUs children of region. Winding mountain road, railway, cable car. Hydroelectric plant.

19:31:44 Map of Po Valley region showing Turin & Milan. Factories in Milan, Cathedral, railway station. Railroad & highway across flat region. Farming in Po Valley; modern machinery.

19:33:07 Appenine mountain region running down centre of Italy, farming scenes on slopes, oxen pulling plow; farmer’s wife w/ geese carrying water to house. Outdoor oven & baking bread. Walled city, narrow streets, women washing outdoors.

19:35:05 Cathedral in Siena; INT stained glass windows.

19:35:25 High shot across Florence & street scenes; Michaelangelo’s statue David. Ponte Vecchio w/ Florentine craftsmen working w/ leather & silver.

19:36:32 Map. Rome - ancient ruins - Coliseum. Map showing growth of Roman Empire. Paintings of Ancient Rome. Colosseum / Coliseum & Forum. Vatican City w/ Swiss Guard at gate & St. Peter’s Cathedral. Rome street scenes.

19:39:11 Map. Naples, high pan across harbor. Dock & street scenes. Ruins of Pompeii w/ archaeologists excavating ashes. Fishing village on Amalfi Coast - nets mended - swordfish caught - fruit & vegetable market. Terraces built into hillside - intensive cultivation.

19:41:51 Map comparing size of Italy to US & population.

19:42:29 Tourists off liner in harbor w/ ship unloading. Summary montage of different regions tourists can visit. Florence Duomo. King Victor Emmanuele memorial, Rome.

250082-01 18:00:02 - 18:12:25 1952 SD B/W Italy; Title.
18:00:09 Industrial montage; rearmament.
18:01:05 Titles.
18:01:18 Montage: Italian policeman directing Rome traffic; Italian buildings, cars, tram, pedestrians, buses, crowded sidewalk. Via Venato, sidewalk cafes, tourists, newspaper boy, magazine kiosk, St. Peters & soldiers having taking picture, women window shopping. Coffee shop & chocolates, gelato, sandwiches. Luxury goods, handbags, shoes, cloth & dressmaking. Models posing & photographer, people watch.
18:05:08 Bulgari exterior; jewelry window; CU music box; rings; CUs.
18:05:57 Night, neon signs. Dancer; well-dressed people dancing to Latin orchestra music, maitre de.
18:07:03 Factory chimneys, steel mill & workers, cutting torch. Women work in cotton warehouse, looms.
18:08:17 Seamstresses, shoemaker, clothing salesmen.
18:08:58 Family at dinner table eating; teenage girl on telephone, couple shopping for bedding; money deposited at bank. Advertising signs, billboards GOOD.
18:10:27 Family w/ Vespa motorscooter w/ sidecar; Others in traffic, Lambrettas, at gas pump. Car parking alongside road.
18:11:12 Crowd outside sports stadium, entering. Grandstands cheering soccer match; CUs & game.

250082-02 18:12:27 - 18:21:14 1952 SD B/W Italy; R2 of 3
Narrow alley, laundry lines w/ clothes hanging. Roman ruins; man bricking up underneath for living. High angle of shanty village. Old woman cooking outdoors behind shack / house w/ sheet metal roof. Kids playing in dirt. Interior w/ bed, bicycle & newspapers on wall as insulation. Boiling water on hot plate (?).
18:14:02 Woman w/ kids watched by unemployed men; sitting on bench.
18:14:27 Women washing clothes in Southern Italy; sitting in doorways,kids lookout. Boy feeding pig. Pan of rocky hills w/ erosion. Man & boys hacking / hoeing ground. Picking rock.
18:15:37 Hand draw hammer & scythe / sickel w/ chalk. Prime Minister De Gaspari talking to camera. Political wall poster in Italian.
18:15:55 Men surveying in valley; timber falling; bulldozer clearing. Men w/ picks & shovels. Plowing subsoil. Men drawing lots for plots of ground for farming. MCU winners coming forward smiling. Farmers driving equipment.
18:17:57 Pan of industry buildings; gas storage, pipeline shown on map. Men working on natural gas pipelines; commercial service stations & fuelling trucks & cars. Large steel mill, pouring & small locomotives moving. Construction of steel mill. Building w/ steel. Tractors parked.
18:20:53 Shipyards & construction.

220944 11:01:10 - 11:33:44 1953 SD COL The World Dances Pt. 3 of 4

Continued from 220943

Musical intermission intro over black screen.

INCLUDING:

11:29:32 Italy montage: pan across Vatican City to St. Peter’s Cathedral; Venice, gondola along canal, man crooning Italian love song to woman in garden. Dancers in arena perform Tarantella Siciliana; man dressed as gypsy playing guitar & whistling. [Phyllis Bloom’s Village Folk Dance Group.]

Good vibrant colour.

220444 11:49:16 - 11:50:26 1955 Si B/W Fur Fashions Jump Season In Old Rome

Women model fur trimmed coats outdoors in Rome gardens. Astrakhan and full fur coats.

221088 16:04:12 - 16:04:53 1955 SIL B/W News In Brief: Italy

Archaeologists digging on site near Roman ruins where pre-Christian treasure found - statue pulled out off earth [staged?] - underground pipes cleaned - women show off intact-looking pottery & earthenware.

Archaeology. 1950s

221679 16:38:32 - 16:39:36 1956 SIL B/W [1956 (?) - Earthquake Aftermath in Italy (?)]

People outside church. Narrow street w/ collapsed building; others w/ roofs & walls collapsed; crosses painted on walls noting deaths.

16:39:11 People watch dismantling of roofs. Field w/ tents; standing buildings behind.

16:39:29 Men, women & children standing in tent. LS of tents.

220511-15 02:19:40 - 02:22:15 1958 Sd b/w Mid East Crisis - Area Quiet Pending UN Summit Talks.

President Nasser walking in group, crowds cheering Nasser on 6th anniversary of the overthrow of Farouk. Nasser speaking from podium - microphones.

02:20:17 Lebanon - Robert Murphy, US negotiator, meets President Chamoun.

02:20:37 Rome - American evacuees from Iraq arriving at airport - men women and children down aircraft steps

02:20:53 Jordan - street scene - flags flying at half mast for King Faisal II and government leaders killed by Iraqi rebels nine days previously. King Hussein addressing press conference. US airlift vitally need fuel to Jordan - unloading gas cans from globemaster plane.

02:21:50 United Nations - Khruschev calls for summit talks. Top shot New York - UN building

221625-18 01:16:23 - 01:17:28 1959 SD B/W Italy

01:16:25 Women in beauty parlor in chairs for hair washing. MCU woman having hair washed.

01:16:34 MCU hands sudsing dog w/ soap; washing small chimpanzee or gorilla.

01:16:48 Hands fixing rollers in woman’s hair in beauty shop.

01:16:54 CU hands clipping dogs hair.

01:16:59 Three women in large hair driers, manicurist working w/ several.

01:17:01 Combing yawning gorilla (?); combing poodle.

01:17:15 Model in hair dryer pouring tea & sipping.

01:17:20 Gorilla drinking from baby bottle.

221629-16 06:55:58 - 06:57:26 1960 SD B/W Fashion Parade (Italy’s 1961 New Look)

06:56:02 Statue & pan to photographer & fashion model, women & girls watching. Model in fringed pants poses. Evening stole modeled in front of mirror; evening dress w/ long train. Glittering fabrics. Gloves & ribbons on gown, model strokes statues. Odd coats, skirts. Fur on dresses.

221629-22 07:03:59 - 07:06:09 1960 SD B/W 25 Years Ago (Wiley Post & Will Rogers; Mussolini & Victor Emmanuel; Royal Garden Party; Howard Hughes) ca 1935

07:04:03 Wiley Post & Will Rogers on float plane. CUs.

07:04:37 High angle of Mussolini, King Victor Emmanuel & Italian troops in mountains. MCU talking. Troops & equipment along mountain road. Troops marching to/from ship. Kissing men, children, women. Boarding ship.

07:05:14 High angle of Royal garden party; Indian troops in dress uniforms, formally dressed men & women. Princess Elizabeth kisses Queen Mary, Duke of Kent to be George VI, Prince of Wales to be King Edward VIII & Duke of Windsor. King George & Queen Mary shaking hands w/ guests.

07:05:46 New monoplane landing on dirt field flown by Howard Hughes. MCU in cockpit. GOOD.

1935; Comedian; Aviation Heroes; Fascist Dictator; Italian Royalty; English Royalty; Playboy;

250070-21 18:21:24 - 18:22:52 1960 SD B/W Italy [1960 - Fashions: Italy’s 1961 New Look]
18:21:29 Statue, pan to photographer & fashion model, women & girls watching. Model in fringed pants poses. Evening stole modeled in front of mirror; evening dress w/ long train. Glittering fabrics. Gloves & ribbons on gown, model strokes statues. Odd coats, skirts. Fur on dresses.

221722 05:21:07 - 05:21:46 1967 SD B/W Title: Italy

05:21:09 Low angle of Neptune statue outside the Uffizi silhouetted below Italian tower in Florence, Italy Piazza della Signoria; statue above fountain.

05:21:14 Interior of Pitti Palace w/ three models in Spring & Summer dresses on runway watched by crowd of buyers & press. CU people watching. Lydia (?); Aleria (?) knit dresses, tights & tunics. Patterns.

05:21:38 Formal gowns by Val d’ Cavera (?).

1967; Jan67; Women’s Fashion

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