Totò a tre dimensioni. Il più comico spettacolo del mondo e la stereoscopia degli anni Cinquanta
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Keywords
- The conflict between television and the cinema of the Fifties hides the conflict between widescreen and stereoscopic movies
- for the revival of cinema itself as a movie-theatre experience. At first
- 3-D spread across the world for its practicality
- it was offered both as an exhibition technology
- for the screening of Hollywood productions
- and as a production technology
- for the screening of local productions. This essay reflects on the penetration of 3-D cinema in Italy
- through the study of the only national feature film shot and projected using 3-D technology at the time: Il più comico spettacolo del mondo (1953) by Mario Mattioli
- produced by Carlo Ponti and Dino De Laurentiis
- for Antonio Altoviti's Rosa Film company. This essay presents an attentive film analysis
- together with the results of archival research based on film journals and production documents
