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.
Street scenes in Rome, Italy. People seated in a streetcar. Pedestrians cross the street. Men in Vespa motorcycles and cars on the street, crossing the streetcar tracks. Buildings and churches in the background. Italians riding bicycles. An Italian carabinieri directs the traffic. Scene changes to Milan, Italy. Street scene with police directing traffic along Via del Corso. Policeman raises his hand to give directions to the traffic in Milan, Lombardy. The Milan Cathedral (P.za del Duomo, 20122 Milano MI, Italy) in view. Streetlamps in view. Traffic of vehicles and pedestrians near square in front of Milan Cathedral.
Events in Italy and the United States during the Great Depression. Italy, 1933: Italian Prime Minister Benito Mussolini at a ceremony to mark the 10th anniversary of his march on Rome, Italy. Fascists gathered at the ceremony. Mussolini hugs and greets a fascist officer. United States: During the Great Depression, men of the Civilian Conservation Corps or CCC at their first training camp cut trees. Men of the CCC sit and eat food in a forest. Men and women participate in a walkathon during the days of the economic depression in 1933 (the scenes look also like those from a dance marathon, with exhausted couples clinging together late in the marathon). From a August 11, 1958 newsreel giving a retrospective look at events 25 years prior.
Rise of Benito Mussolini after World War I and taking Italy to World War II. Benito Mussolini and the Blackshirts parade in Rome when the Fascist Party comes to power after ousting Italian Prime Minister Luigi Facta in October 1922. Civilians of Benito Mussolini's Fascist Party parade in the 'March on Rome' when Mussolini takes over the government. Cheering civilians surround Mussolini as he exits from a building. The Blackshirts parade. Mussolini speaks from a balcony. A large crowd gives the Fascist salute at one of Mussolini's mass meetings. Crowds gathered at the Piazza del Popolo in Rome. Members of the Fascist Youth parade on the streets. German Chancellor Adolf Hitler deplanes from a Deutsche Luft Hansa plane in Venice and meets Italian Prime Minister Mussolini for the first time. Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs Gian Galeazzo Ciano and Mussolini and staff review troops. Mussolini shakes hands with Hitler, surrounded by Italian notables. A Royal Box at a ceremony shows Hitler, Mussolini, King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy and Queen Elena of Montenegro. An Italian tank review near the Colosseum and the Arch of Constantine in Rome (Piazza del Colosseo, 1, 00184 Roma RM, Italy). Italian crack troops goose-step past the Royal Box for Hitler to review the soldiers. The Munich Conference shows Hitler, Mussolini, Prime Minister of France Eduard Daladier, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain among others. Mussolini signs the Munich Pact. Mussolini delivers a speech from his balcony at the Palazzo Venezia. Crowds acclaim Mussolini in the Piazza Venezia and the Altar of the Fatherland (Altare della Patria, Piazza Venezia, 00186 Roma RM, Italy).
Rome's elite motorcycle police stage a spectacular demonstration of precision drill and free-wheeling at fancy patterns in Italy. Italian President, high dignitaries and cheering spectators watch in delight.
50th flight celebration of Max Conrad in Italy. The plane lands. Amateur airman Max Conrad disembarks from the plane after his 50th flight. He makes the record of 5000 mile non stop flight from Chicago to Rome in a light,single engine plane. During the celebration a man presents a garland and a bouquet to Conrad. A lady kisses him. Conrad walks with his family and friends.
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