Free Newsreel of Rome No. 1, 1968

Location: Rome, Italy Is the cinema over? ' is the question that appears in the opening sign of this newsreel. In reality it is a debate on the meaning and political function of free newsreels and similar experiences that are being done all over the world. It takes place at the home of Cesare Zavattini and will be attended by Zavattini himself, Silvano Agosti, Alfredo Angeli, Giuseppe Bellecca, Marco Bellocchio, Liliana Cavani, Nico D'Alessandria, Giuseppe Ferrara, Alfredo Leonardi, Pier Giuseppe Murgia, Salvatore Samperi, Romano Scavolini, Elda Tattoli, Gianni Toti. 01. Title “Newsreel number 1: Is cinema over?”. Interior of the Cesare Zavattini house, who takes the floor. PP by Zavattini. Next to him Nico D'Alessandria 02. Roundup on young directors: D'Alessandria, Alfredo Angeli, Liliana Cavani, Salvatore Samperi, Elsa Tattoli, Giuseppe Ferrara, Alfredo Angeli, Giuseppe Bellecca 03. Speech and PP by Alferdo Angeli. PP by Elda Tattoli, Marco Bellocchio, Liliana Cavani 04. Cavani takes the floor 05. Roundup on young directors. An unidentified one of them takes the floor 06. PP by another young director who takes the floor 07. Speech by Marco Bellocchio. Next to him is Tattoli. A roundup on the directors. Cavani Speech 08. Speech by Alfredo Angeli. Speech by Giuseppe Ferrara 09. Intervention by Bellocchio. Samperi answers him and then another director 10. Angels takes the floor 11. Samperi's PA who gets up and goes to open the door. Silvano Agosti enters the door. Bellocchio's speech continues 12. Speech by Samperi on which other voices overlap 13. Take the clapperboard. Ferrara takes the floor. Debate with Bellocchio 14. Discussion between Ferrara and Angeli 15. Speech by Zavattini. Speech by a director who debates with Zavattini. Next to him is Cavani 16. Detail of hands that are putting an MDP in a bag. The shot widens and we see that those hands belong to Nico D'Alessandria. A roundup on the directors, while Zavattini continues to speak 17. PP of a director who is adjusting the audio of the recording of the debate 18. Speech by Silvano Agosti. Speech by Zavattini. PP by Agosti who takes up the word 19. Speech by Bellocchio, Ferrara, Agosti and another director. Zavattini takes the floor 20. Elda Tattoli takes the floor. Speech by Bellocchio 21. Giuseppe Bellecca takes the floor. An unknown director intervenes and D'Alessandria answers him. Debate between two directors 22. A director takes the floor. Speech by Agosti, Ferrara and Angeli 23. Intervention by Belllocchio and then by Agosti 24. News theme song. PP of a journalist who recounts the French events of those years. Images of the French rebellion follow one another