Vita d’Olanda

  • Weitere Titel: Life in Netherlands
  • Genre: Documentary film
  • Dauer: 00:06:31
  • Beschreibung: The panoramic shot opening the film pinponts the true protagonists at once: the canals, water harnessed within circuits planned by man in order to wrench land from the sea. The camera travels at water level, insinuating itself amongst barges, coasting around popular houses, fields and roads. The director and cameraman Piero Marelli wishes to celebrate man‘s peaceful victory in regimenting natural forces, without giving up his decided taste for balance in composition and a pictorial use of light. Mobile bridges close over canals, trains cross bridges, the camera changes its angle to highlight the symmetry of the reflection of houses in the water or the silhouette of an iron bridge recomposing itself in the sunset. In the second part of the film the atmosphere changes, the focus is no longer addressed to the product but to the maker, man. Women intent on sewing are filmed, children, a family posing in the privacy of it home. At the end, nevertheless, the features of man leave the screen again to light play and to the imposing figures of the windmills. The suggestion of clouds rushing between moving sails is accentuated by the classic but always effective combination of blue toning and pink imbibition. The film is a collation by director Piero Marelli of older materials filmed by himself for the Pasquali production company. The video is a copy from the film print held by the National Cinema Museum: 35mm, positive, acetate, 135 metres, colour (Desmetcolor), Italian intertitles, silent.
  • Schlüsselwörter: EFG1914 / World War I / EFG; Museo Nazionale del Cinema; National Cinema Museum; Documentary; Netherlands; Windmills; Silent cinema / World War, 1914-1918
  • Anbieter: Museo Nazionale del Cinema
  • Rechte: Public Domain
  • Produktionsfirma: Tiziano Film, Turin
  • Farbe: Tinted / Toned / Hand coloured
  • Regie: Marelli, Piero
  • Ton: Without sound
  • Sammlung: Museo Nazionale del Cinema Film Collection
  • Language: it