B/w, interior, eighteenth birthday party at home: girls dance the hully – gully; couples dance a slow dance; the game of blind fly; the mother of the birthday girl; the birthday girl blows out the candles. Interior, in the classroom (Liceo Classico ‘Melchiorre Delfico’ in Teramo): the teacher interrogates a group of students standing at the sides of the desk; framing, from the bottom upwards, of the class arranged on the amphitheatre-shaped desks of the classroom; the corridor of the high school at the change of time: teachers talking among themselves; games and jokes among the students during a break.
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Colour, outside day: footage of the various stages of wheat threshing; footage of the workers at work; women offering lunch to the men; footage outside, during some breaks, and inside (in the house) during lunch.
Colour, interior (Christmas 1956), at home: scenes of family life (father, mother, child); the cinematographer’s wife sitting in an armchair reading a magazine; the child shows the camera the presents he has received; a New Year’s Eve party, people dancing; the cinematographer’s son plays in the kitchen with a small bicycle and a rocking horse.
Colour, outside day, in the countryside of Mosciano Sant’Angelo: children play with a wooden banger; children on a tractor; shots of the surrounding countryside; children, with a pitchfork in their hands, over sheaves of wheat. Wheat harvesting: farmers at work with pitchforks and machinery; labourers at work.
Colour, outside day, first communion of a little girl (the daughter of the cameraman): the communicant makes her way to the church accompanied by her parents and relatives; group of boys and girls, dressed for first communion, on the square in front of the church; a tricolour flag with the UOMINI A.C. banner can be seen in the crowd; parade of children who are to receive first communion; the bishop with the priest and altar boys. After communion: various poses of the family in the garden; family rests in the park; group walk.
Colour, daytime exterior, in the countryside: women stroll through a field where wheat has been harvested; women and men pose; in the vineyard. Procession of the Dead ChristProcession of the Dead Christ through the streets of the town of Mosciano Sant’Angelo: little girl dressed as an angel; girls, lined up in procession, in black uniform; procession of girls in white uniform; the statue of Our Lady of Sorrows; crowd of people; various stages of the procession.
B/w, exterior day, detail on a sign: “Mosciano Sant’Angelo”; men drink at a fountain; in front of a workshop; the town square; children play in the square; women wash clothes at the fountain. Life in the fields and in the village: ox-drawn carts; peasants hoeing; women carry jugs of water on their heads; a naked child plays in the mud; shots of the village women; men show a donkey being ridden by a young man; an old woman wraps a spindle; a woman empties a basin on the road; a little girl, barefoot, with a rag in her hand, advances.
B/w, exterior day: views of the village of Piano d’Arta (Udine province, Friuli), shots of a group of seated friends and an elderly woman walking up the road with a basket, various street shots. Interior: the cinematographer’s wife at home. Exterior day: three men and a child walk in the countryside; various moments of the walk; filming of the family on the road in front of the house: women, men, children.
B/w, interior, conviviality at the table: close-ups on the various diners as they eat, chat and smile facing the camera; close-up on the face of a baby girl in her mother’s arms. B/w, exterior day: procession of girls in first communion dresses; close-ups of faces of elderly women; stages of the procession.
Color, exterior day. Mountain trip: shooting on a road, several present standing; a man on horseback; cars parked on the side of the road; children run on the lawns; 500 cars parked on the lawns; close-up on a little girl; family picnic on the lawn.