Nov 29, 2019
20 min
Full-HD

Handbook of Movie Theaters’ History (2019)

Handbook of Movie Theaters’ History is a documentary about the history, the development in the present days and the future of movie theaters in the city of Turin, Italy. It mixes the documentary language with comedy and fiction, and is enriched by interviews to some of the most important voices of Turin cinematography. The film follows the evolution of movie theaters by enlightening its main milestones: the pre-cinema experiences in the late 19th Century, the colossals and the movie cathedrals of the silent era, the arthouse theaters, the National Museum of Cinema, the Torino Film Festival, the movie theaters system today and the main hypothesis about its future.

Category

Documentary Comedy

Country

Companies

Fuoricampo Film

Carlo Valli

Cosmic Bob

Martina Donà

Victoria

Giaime Alonge

Professor

Gabriele Bocchio

Everyman

Giorgio Serra

Projectionist

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