Bulldozers clearing shrubs, leveling land in Italy. Bulldozer pushing soil. A man operates a plowing machine. A man drives a road roller with spikes. A group of farmers drive tractors at a farm. White cattle looking on in the background. Men working in an assembly line of a factory. Italian workers working inside an aerospace factory. A man working on rocket. Airplanes being constructed in Italy. Italian Air Force (Aeronautica Militare) officers inspect an aircraft being assembled. Men assemble an Italian Air Force plane. The roundel of the Italian Air Force is displayed on the aircraft. Men working inside a factory. Workers take a metal frame for a car body from a machine. Conveyer lifts transport car parts inside a car factory. Men working on suspended cars in assembly line. Man closes hood of a finished car (1957 Fiat Millecento Belvedere). A man inspects a 4 door DeSoto 1956 Firedome car in assembly line. Cars racing on racetrack. Cars parked in the middle of a racetrack. Newly manufactured cars are being transported by a car carrier trailer. A car carrier trailer passes by the Colosseum (Piazza del Colosseo, 1, 00184 Roma RM, Italy) in Rome, Italy. An Alitalia Douglas DC-6B takes off from Rome Ciampino Airport (Via Appia Nuova, 1651, 00040 Ciampino RM, Italy). An Italian journalist talks to an American man while waiting for flight inside the airport. Italian man stands up to board his flight. Passengers climb up the stairs of a TWA airstair. Italian man waves back at American friend from the tarmac. American man waves at Italian journalist boarding his flight.
Italian celebrity Giovanna Ferrara is interviewed for an Italian TV show on WATV 13 in Newark, New Jersey. A television show for the Italian American community in New York is aired on WATV 13 (now known as WNET – THIRTEEN). A cameraman moves his camera. Camera is labeled with “WATV 13”. A production sound mixer prepares before taping. A boom microphone rotates. Front view of a studio color camera. A male host interviews Giovanna Ferrara, a celebrity and winner of a popular game show in Italy (“Lascia o raddoppia?”, the Italian version of “The $64,000 Question”), in Italian. The Italian host speaks to Giovanna Ferrara talk during the show. Both the host and Ferrara are seated behind a table with a sign that reads “WATV NEWS”. The Italian host asks Signora Ferrara, who won 5 million lire (approximately $ 8,000 in 1957), her motives in joining the game show. Giovanna Ferrara expressed feelings of gratitude and generosity after winning “Lascia o raddoppia?”. The host thanked Giovanna Ferrara for her time and congratulated her in her new career. The host shakes hands with the Italian celebrity after the end of her interview.
A group of American tourists touring Rome, Italy. Tourists ride on horse buggies in Piazza Navona (Piazza Navona, 00186 Roma RM, Italy). A woman from a horse buggy view the Fiumi Fountain in Piazza Navona. Tourists looking at Roman sights from the window inside a tour bus. Tourists alight from tour buses in front of the Saint Peter’s Basilica (Piazza San Pietro, 00120 Città del Vaticano, Vatican City). Tourists take pictures using their Kodak cameras in Saint Peter’s Square. A tourist bus leaves the Saint Peter’s Square. The Arch of Constantine (Via di San Gregorio, 00186 Roma RM, Italy) in front of the Roman Colosseum. Young girls smiling. A pair of Italian Carabinieri (gendarmerie) assist tourists in front of the Colosseum (Piazza del Colosseo, 1, 00184 Roma RM, Italy). A young couple holding a baby leave after viewing the Colosseum. A family with a car prepares to visit the Colosseum. Tourists in the Roman Forum (Via della Salara Vecchia, 5/6, 00186 Roma RM, Italy). A man painting ancient ruins at the Roman Forum. Ruins of a Roman building with only Corinthian-style columns remain. View of Rome skyline at sunset.
American artists, musicians and sculptors living in Italy. An African American woman playing classical music on a grand piano. An American man plays the violin. A scholar studies mural art from an Italian professor at the American Academy in Rome (Via Angelo Masina, 5, 00153 Roma RM, Italy). Student and teacher analyze murals together. A copper bust of Albert Einstein. A sculptor welds a copper sculpture. A sculptor rotates a simple sculpture. Modernist sculptures on display. A sculptor makes a model of Saint Francis of Assisi. A modernist statue model of the Virgin Mary and Jesus Christ. Sculptor sculpts the beard of a Saint Francis of Assisi model statue. A sculptor etches a model of a Congressional Gold Medal. American composer and pianist, Stanley Walker Hollingsworth, works as a composer-in-residence at the American Academy in Rome. Stanley Hollingsworth plays a piano.
Modern Italian industries practice the American “Factory System”. Italian workers working on an assembly line inside a Vespa factory (Viale Rinaldo Piaggio, 25, 56025 Pontedera PI, Italy) in Pontedera, Tuscany, Italy. Factory workers attach motor parts of a Vespa scooter. Worker rotates a suspended white Vespa. Body-less Vespa scooters in an assembly line. Workers arrange Vespa scooters of various colors. Workers pack finished Vespa scooters in wooden crates bound for New York.
American novelist Robert M. Warren reads a book behind a stone wall with an inscription of the poem “Truth” by John Masefield. Robert Warren takes off his glasses. Students and American expats reading inside a library in Italy. An African American man reading. A young woman flips through a LIFE magazine inside a library. An old woman leaves her desk. A man pushes library cart inside the library. A hand flips through a picture book about the American Revolution.