VITTORIO DE SICA
At the half of 30s Cines film company tries to launch Vittorio De Sica in the USA: in this fragment, found at UCLA of Los Angeles, he sings Blue Moon in English!

TEN MINUTES WITH THE DUBBERS
Wonderful sound documentary set in the Scalera laboratories and telling the story of the golden age of dubbing. In the last sequence the face of Oliver Hardy’s dubber is revealed: Alberto Sordi.

ADMISSION TEST FOR THE CENTRO SPERIMENTALE DI CINEMATOGRAFIA: 1950 Sofia Scicolone (Sophia Loren was still a long way off) seeks access to the C.S.C. with a fragment of classical Neapolitan theater, Assunta Spina.

ACTING TEST BY THE STUDENTS OF THE CENTRO SPERIMENTALE DI CINEMATOGRAFIA: BIENNIUM ’53-’54
Director: Luigi Zampa. Actor: Domenico Modugno. 120m. D.: 4’.
Long before Volare became one of Italy’s most loved songs, Domenico Modugno was an unknown student actor at the experimental cinematographic school in Rome.
The two pieces presented this evening include a fragment of La Patente and an enjoyable comic sketch.

ACTING TEST BY THE STUDENTS OF THE CENTRO SPERIMENTALE DI CINEMATOGRAFIA: BIENNIUM ’57-’58
Director: Dr. Petrucci. Actress: Claudia Cardinale. 125 m. D.:4’.
This is perhaps the first film footage of Claudia Cardinale.
In the first of two fragments the actress participates in a scene with a strong French accent and an offstage prompter that feeds her the lines. She does not act but simply lives the role which she quickly slips into.
In the second brief fragment the actress does not have any lines. The movie camera remains fixed on her face revealing her disconcerting beauty. Her expression moves from smiling to dramatic without her speaking.

FILM TEST OF STEFANIA SANDRELLI AND CATHERINE SPAAK
for Io la conoscevo bene (1965) di Antonio Pietrangeli