Home movie. Shooting of two children with a cat and a woman during a mountain trip in the Alps. The video is a copy from the film print held by the Museo Nazionale del Cinema: 9,5mm, positive, acetate...
In 1911 Mario Piacenza climbed the top of Mount Cervino with some partners. Apart from the back pack, he was carrying the film camera and the tripod. Considering the conditions of the shots, the quali...
The film is a miscellany of life shooting, related to the first conflict, showing: scenes of provisions using military vehicles with engine or pulled by horses in country and city roads; shootings of ...
The film documents the ascent of the Dente del Gigante (mountain in the Mont Blanc massif). The great ability of Mario Piacenza (April 1884 - Biella, April 16, 1957), together with the particular moun...
The film shows the city of Asti celebrating the fellow citizen Umberto Cagni Count of Bu Meliana, who was an admiral and a explorer. His most famous expedition led him in 1897, together with his frien...
Rome, from a balcony of Piazza Venezia is displayed the gathering of the officers on leave. The amateur footage is interspersed with clips from documentaries concerning the fascism. The video ends wit...
Home movie, Christmas 1939: a child receives from his great-grandparents a crib and the Christmas-tree. The video is a copy from the film print held by the Museo Nazionale del Cinema: 9,5mm, positive,...
Home movie showing the merry-go-round in Piazza Vittorio Veneto during the winter season, and then the urban area of Fioccardo, where the family finds refuge after Italy's declaration of war in the su...