Title: Grand tour italiano 61 film dei primi anni del '900 = 61 films from early 1900s /
Authors: Meneghelli, Andrea, 1971-; Furlati, Daniel.
Publisher: Cineteca di Bologna,
Year: 2016
Subjects: Italy Description and travel
Abstract: Do you want to see beauty? Over a century ago, swarms of Italian and foreign cameramen travelled far and wide throughout Italy to film landscapes, villages, cities, events, factories, customs and traditions of our country, for the benefit of a whole new category: the cinema-goers of the world. With this collection of 61 films restored by the Cineteca di Bologna and other prestigious film libraries, we hop aboard a machine traveling through space and time, reaching hundreds of places, from Sicily to the Matterhorn. Italy as we've never seen it before, suspended between the nineteenth century and modernity, in the old and rare images that have survived. A Grand Tour, a journey of pleasure, of course, but it also helps us to better understand the country today. Piano accompaniment composed and performed by Daniel Furlati.