Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi of Iran descends stairs in a garden, with officials, in Rome, Italy. He walks a reception line and is then surrounded by reporters. He answers questions while being interviewed. He samples refreshments from a waiter. Later, at night, the Shah is seen surrounded, again, by reporters. He reads from several publications. A newspaper named 'American'. Headline reads: "Mosaddegh Flees Iran Riots. Shah Prepares Flight Home." The story is carried in other foreign language publications. Views of Hotel Excelsior (Via Vittorio Veneto, 125, 00187 Roma RM, Italy) in Rome, as Shah prepares to return to Iran.
Smoke rising from bombings in the town of Massa, Italy during World War 2. Smoke rising from Allied bombings of German positions in the mountains surrounding Massa, Italy. Smoke rises around damaged buildings.
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.
A house party in Rome, Italy during World War II. Young Italians socialize during a house party. Couples romantically dancing in living room, while men and women sitting on chairs on the side. Man turns hand crank of a record player. Men and women listen to music. A man shows a paper to a woman standing behind the record player. Italian men and women smoke cigarettes in a balcony overlooking the Castel Sant’Angelo (Lungotevere Castello, 50, 00193 Roma RM, Italy) and the Parco della Mole Adriana Garden. A woman talks to a man while smoking cigarettes. The man turns to the woman.
Mount Vesuvius and the harbor of Naples, Italy. View of the curved shoreline in Bay of Naples. The Fontana del Sebeto along Via Mergellina Street (Fontana del Sebeto Via Mergellina, 139, 80122 Napoli NA, Italy). Four Italians men chatting next to the roadside stand, which displays shells of various types. A young man and woman looking out over water in the Bay of Naples from the promenade. Mount Vesuvius seen in the right. The skyline of Naples on the left.
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