Italy commemorates its participation in World War I at a Fascist ceremony in Rome, Italy. Italian Prime Minister Benito Mussolini and King Victor Emmanuel III arrive at the Victor Emmanuel II Memorial or Altar of the Fatherland (Altare della Patria, Piazza Venezia, 00186 Roma RM, Italy) in Rome, Italy. They get off a carriage. Soldiers of sixteen regiments lined up at the memorial to commemorate the Italian participation in World War I. The soldiers march past the memorial. Bruno, the son of Benito Mussolini, dons a flight gear and gets into the cockpit of an aircraft. The aircraft taxis and takes off. Mussolini looks on. He decorates his son and hands him a license as an aviator. Benito Mussolini hugs his son.
An Italian documentary about Rome, Italy. Opening scene shows people going up and down the Spanish Steps in Rome, Italy (Italian: Scalinata di Trinità dei Monti). The steps ascend a steep slope between the Piazza di Spagna at the base and Piazza Trinità dei Monti. At the top is the Trinità dei Monti church (Piazza della Trinità dei Monti, 3, 00187 Roma RM, Italy). A man sits on a concrete pillar reading Time magazine. A man sips an espresso in front of the Pantheon (Piazza della Rotonda, 00186 Roma RM, Italy), with obelisk and fountain on the Piazza della Rotonda in front of it. People patronizing shops along Via del Corso. A woman tries on a fashionable dress in a designer boutique, as the proprietor stands nearby. A woman looking closely at necklaces in a jewelry store window. A woman customer trying on jewelry at a shop. Woman takes off ring from finger. Closeups of her hands with rings on them. Elegant, jeweled necklace displayed in a shop window. Neon signs in entertainment district at night. Two women in a bar. Behind them is the bartender, and on the wall is a large reproduction of the Reclining Venus, by Venetian painter Giorgione. A doorman at the entrance to a night club. Inside, patrons crowd the floor, dancing to rhythmic Latin music. Tourists partying inside the night club. Abrupt change of scene shows smoke rising from the stack of a steel plant. Inside men are seen working near a furnace. Sparks fly from welding. The welder seen working over a huge metal part. Next, women and a man are seen handling armfuls of wool. Other women operate a spinning machine creating thread from the wool. View inside a dress maker shop where a woman removes a dress from a form. Several women are busy making dresses in the shop. Supervisors examine the works in progress. A shoemaker is seen working at his bench. Customers in a shop look at new woolen blankets. People doing banking at a teller's window. The teller annotates a customer's bank book. A group of well-dressed men and women mount motor scooters and proceed to a park where many other scooters are parked. Sports fans fill the area around a soccer stadium. Some are buying tickets at booths. Crowds enter the stadium. View of stadium filled with fans. Players run on the field as fans applaud in the stands. It begins to rain, and fans pull up coat collars. Most of them raise umbrellas.
Rome, Italy during World War II. A map of Italy shows various places. German infantry and cavalry units march ahead in Italy after the capitulation to Allies of Marshal Pietro Badoglio. Soldiers in an armored personnel carrier approach the Italian Alps. Nazi officers, including field marshal Erwin Rommel, are seen outside a building. German soldiers mounted on a tank move into an Italian city as people wave to them. Soldiers fire, explosion occurs, and a pillar of smoke rises up. German forces occupy Reggio, Padua, and Milan. Germans in an armored personnel carrier approach the Arch of Peace/Porta Sempione (Piazza Sempione, 20154 Milano MI, Italy) in Milan. Soldiers fight in the streets of Rome. A building with a Nazi sign on its gates. German soldiers celebrate after taking over the city. They smoke. Soldiers with women outside a building and pull a kitten from their uniforms to present to her. Soldiers in a Jeep enter Rome with the Colosseum in the background.
Field Marshal Albert Kesselring reviews coastal defense in Italy during World War 2. Map of Italy and neighboring countries (written in German). Field Marshal (Generalfeldmarschall) Albert Kesselring reviews a coastal defense unit in Italy. General Kesselring salutes upon his arrival and walks. General Kesselring waves his baton while speaking. A young Wehrmacht soldier is introduced to General Kesselring. General Kesselring knocks the Stahlhelm helmet of a soldier. General Kesselring boards an SS staff car. Kesselring smiles as the car drives away. A soldier uses binoculars to observe the coast. A German soldier (wearing only white underwear) uses a field telephone. German soldiers (mostly underdressed) resting in a grove of trees. German soldiers prepare and clean artillery guns. Shirtless German soldiers eating grapes in Italy.
High ranking military officials review a parade of military units from in front of the Palace of Justice (Palazzo di Giustizia, Piazza Cavour, 00193 Roma RM, Italy) in Rome, Italy, during World War I. Potted plants decorate the Palace entrance. King Peter I and King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy, step into a royal carriage. The two converse briefly while they wait for the footmen to take their places in the back of the carriage. The carriage then proceeds with King Peter I and King Victor Emmanuel III. Scene shifts to front of the Palace, again, where many civilian dignitaries have gathered to watch the military parade.
The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 1944. Lava in the city. Smoke rises from lava. People pose. Crowd gathers near lava. Civilians kneel in prayer as church services are held before an outdoor shrine. The crowd praying around a Virgin Mary statue. Candles lit in front of statue and priest speaks. Lava flow interrupts services. A man pushes lava rock with a stick. The crowd breaks up and carries the shrine forward. Men carry statue and priest go with them. View of city with cloud of smoke in the background.
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