Life of Verdi
gIGNS of the recent Italian 'bid for film prominence were seen in a picture founded on the life of Verdi, the great Operatic composer, and a picture in which Italian airmen were the dominant interest was of high quality. This was made under the direction of Vittorio Mussolini, son of tire Duce.
One work of outstanding merit was of inconvenient length, the film made by Leni Riefenstal from the Olympic Games in Berlin. Fraulein Riefenstal will be remembered as the maker of one or two remarkable mountaineering pictures, the most famous of which was “The Blue Light.” Her film of the Olympic Games occupied two evenings, and is over 1,300,000 feet in length. This enormous length will make it difficult for general exhibition, if general exhibition be intended. The French industry contributed an extremely interesting exhibition of cinema development from its earliest and crudest stages right up to the most modern colour processes.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19777, 3 November 1938, Page 10
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156Life of Verdi Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19777, 3 November 1938, Page 10
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