"documentario narrativo"/narrative or avant-garde documentary
"a soggetto"/fiction
"In addition to these there are others that would appear subject but the plot is so tenuous and unclear that we do not hesitate to place them among the documentaries (The Chained Bow; Zoo; Hunters of the Alps or 65 O.M.)"-Cinegiorniale, 1936
documentario/documentary
"...ci presenta con una dinamica visione quelle che è una delle più superbe opere compiute dal Fascismo in Liguria"
"...presents us with a dynamic vision what is one of the most superb works accomplished by Fascism in Liguria."
—I littoriali del cinema a Venezia, Cinegiornale, 1936
"a soggetto breve"/short fiction based on the eponymous novel by Edgar Allan Poe
"doc. a fantasia"/avant-garde documentary Risveglio, regista Vittorio Cossato, collaboratore tecnico Antonio Marzari. Il film presenta in una successione di inquadrature rigorosamente fisse, il contrasto tra il passato e il presente espresso talora attraverso simboli (come nella prima parte l'uomo che, visto di schiena cammina per un terreno paludoso, triste e squallido) ma quasi sempre per visioni di natura, di nuove generazioni al lavoro nel traffico dei porti, delle strade e nelle adunate. Vi sono dei passaggi freschi e il film nel complesso non manca di una certa omogeneità ritmica. Awakening, director Vittorio Cossato, technical collaborator Antonio Marzari. The film presents, in a succession of rigorously fixed shots, the contrast between the past and the present, sometimes expressed through symbols (as in the first part, the man who, seen from behind, walks through a sad and bleak, marshy terrain), but almost always through visions of nature, of new generations at work in the traffic of ports, roads and rallies. There are some fresh passages and the film in its entirety does not lack a certain rhythmic homogeneity. —Il Ventuno 29 (Review of the G.U.F. of Venice), June 1935, p. 16
"At the Old Berkeley for the Point to Point race for hunting horses, crowds have gathered, some people stand whilst others sit on carts to watch the event. The entertainment includes marching Scottish bagpipers. There is a line of tote stands for betting. The riders mount up and line up at the starting point. The race begins, the horses and jockeys complete the course. Many of the jockeys are seen following the race, and the horses are wiped down. The second film is of another Berkeley Hunt, a fox is in the bushes, panting heavily. The fox hounds are exercised and returned to their kennel. Fox hound puppies, the next generation, come out of their kennel to feed. At Solesbridge the riders and hounds gather for the hunt. The hunt progresses across the land until the bugle is blown, the fox has gone to ground and the men dig up the earth in search of the fox. The fox hounds suddenly surround the hole, the fox has been caught. A rider taunts the hounds with the foxes head. Several other hunts are featured, the riders and hounds crossing the countryside attempting to track down the foxes. Crowds, riders and hounds gather outside Latimer House, awaiting the start of a November hunt and there are similar scenes at Bovington. At Scatterdell youngsters are blooded as is the tradition for novice riders. A race is about to begin at Amersham Broadway, as the riders and hounds make there way through the streets and into the nearby countryside. At Great Hampden crowds and riders and hounds gather, similarly at Hartwell House, crowds, hounds and riders meet before setting off. The film ends with the cutting up of a fox, the body is tossed up in the air for the hounds leaving a young boy left holding the fox's tail" (EAFA Database).
"Short film recording a wreath laying ceremony at the Cenotaph from a high vantage point in Parliament Street" (EAFA Database).
Total Pages: 299
Amateur Cinema