15,000 SOLDIERS IN FILM
CARTHAGE REBUILT ' ;^v ROME. Aug. 8. i The Italian film industry has decided to * try to recapture its lost laurels. Tno« Rome studios are to start immediately on* nn historic fd.in of grandiose proportions.- ■ It is to be called "Scipionc Africano" and s to. set forth, the triumph of the member - of ..the family of Scipio who conquered '. Hannibal but died in exile owing to successful intrigues of bis enemies at * home. ■■■"■"• The cast will consist of ICO principal, actors and actresses, 15.0C0 soldiers. 2CCO .•; live horses and 40 real elephants. The, ] estimates amount to £.300.0(50 sterling.at., j nominal rates of exchange. Aur'ienv Rome and Carthage are to" To' reconstructed somewhere near mode l ii Dome. The Rofljans have been promised ' that they will be able to see the film by '. next Christmas. "-'
The War Office is to "lend" the 15.009 soldiers for the battle of Zama in which Hannibal was defeated in 202 B.C.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19124, 19 September 1936, Page 3
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