Description
Azienda di Promozione Turistica Di Roma [Published Date: 2002]. Paper covers (booklet), 51 pp. Text in English. Promotional booklet published by the Rome Film Commission to encourage film production as well as tourism. Contents include: Introduction by Walter Veltroni, The Mayor of Rome; Pantheon - Piazza Navona - Plaza Farnese - Piazza Mattei; Via Veneto - Fontana di Trevi - Piazza di Spagna - Piazza del Popolo; Colosseo - Campidoglio - Foro Romano; Aventino; Trastevere - Testaccio - Ostiense - Garbatella; Vaticano - San Pietro - Ponte Sant-Angelo - Piazza Cavour; Flamino - Parioli - Salario - Nomentano; Pigneto - Tuscolano - Piazza San Giovanni Bosco - Cinecitta; Eur - Ostia; List of the mentioned motion pictures; Useful information to film in Rome. Color and black and white photo reproductions throughout.
Condition & notes
In good condition. Black and white pictorial paper covers have some bumping and creasing and light overall scuffing. Binding tight (staple bound). Light spotting to edge of first page and last page where some of the black color of the covers has rubbed off onto the page. Gentle creasing to some pages but otherwise unmarked. NOT Ex-Library. NO remainder marks. [From introduction] Between Rome and the cinema, it was love at first sight. Ever since 1945 and Roberto Rossellini's - Open City, given the circumstances, post war Italian directors had no other choice but to film outdoors, on real squares and streets. The Cinecittà studios bad been bombed out during the war and budgets were insufficient to hire other Studios. But neorealism became famous the world over and, even later, never reverted to conventional production methods again, but continued to work on "location" rather than in Studios. This new system of production was also adopted by a considerable part of the American motion picture industry. From the Fifties on, many directors started preferring the banks of the Tiber to the wealth of Hollywood. Truly, it can be said that it all started with William Wyler's Roman Holidays. Rome had undoubtedly bewitched the motion pictures. So squares and Cinquecento palaces, Trastevere's narrow streets, barges on the Tiber, but also Rome's new suburbs turned into natural settings of numberless Italian and foreign films, from the post-war days to the present. The city's sceneries have inspired Roman directors: Rossellini, Scola, Moretti and Muccino, for one. But also directors who did not live in Rome and were not Roman natives, felt the magic of these settings and, in a way, turned Roman for the love of this city: Fellini, Antonioni, Bertolucci, Germi and Pasolini, just to mention some of the most famous. This feeling of love between Rome and the seventh art did not fade with time. On the contrary, as in all true love- stories in which both partners keep improving and helping each other, Rome, on the one hand, contributed to the great success of Italian motion pictures all over the world, and on the other hand, our cinema made the Eternal City universally known from a decidedly new and very different angle as compared to the usual stereotypes. In writing this guide jointly, the Rome Tourist Promotion Office and the Roma Film Commission, (an institution to support the Roman motion picture industry), have meant to honour this close and vital tie between Rome and the cinema. A tie that will last in times to come.
