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The first music videos in color, the true ancestors of modern day video clips. They were implemented in Italy during the late fifties and marketed from 1961 onwards, exactly fifty years ago, in symbioses with the inspired birth of the revolutionary Cinebox which introduced the new concept of push button keyboard selection of one music video at a time. The Cinebox provoked fierce international competition between Italy and France. Artistic creative commercial battles were fought in Europe and later in the United States. The competitive commercial war, spanned a decade in which many internationally famous artists, producers and film directors of the nineteen sixties were at loggerheads. Among these, were Claude Lelouch, Francis Ford Coppola, Robert Altman, the italian film director Vito Molinari, the italian tv director Enzo Trapani, and many large influential italian industries such as Ottico Meccanica Italiana, Innocenti, Lepetit-Ledoga, the Beretta Group, the Microstampa and Cinestabilimento Donato. In conclusion, all the excitement aroused the interest of the mafia and consequently that of Robert Kennedy, who as chairman of the Federal Grand Jury, spearheaded the fight against the mafia. Michele Bovi, a journalist and author, has diligently gathered all the historical facts pertaining to these events and the birth of the Cinebox. He has extensively interviewed the protagonists, participants and witnesses of this fascinating history and of the artistic and commercial rivalry between the italian Cinebox and its french counterpart, the Scopitone. In this book, besides the story and testimonials, it lists all the short films and music videos filmed throughout the world and captures the reader’s interest with documentation and original photos taken on the film sets, that binds together in this book, a snapshot of many famous artists of that era with its unrepeatable artistic creativity with the legendary and innovative italian invention, the Cinebox.

I primi filmati musicali a colori, antenati del moderno videoclip, sono stati realizzati nel nostro paese alla fine degli anni cinquanta e commercializzati a partire dal 1961, esattamente mezzo secolo fa. Così i primi apparecchi a selezione per proiettarli: si chiamavano Cinebox e scatenarono una guerra commerciale tra Italia e Francia combattuta prima sul territorio europeo e successivamente su quello statunitense. Una vicenda che abbraccia un decennio e che ha visto protagonisti tutte le popstar internazionali degli anni sessanta, registi celebrati come Claude Lelouch, Francis Ford Coppola, Robert Altman, i nostri Vito Molinari ed Enzo Trapani, aziende italiane autorevoli come Ottico Meccanica Italiana, Innocenti, Lepetit-Ledoga, Gruppo Beretta, La Microstampa, Cinestabilimento Donato e che inoltre finì per destare l’interesse della mafia americana e conseguentemente della commissione anticrimine che faceva capo al Senatore Robert Kennedy. A ricostruire questa storia è stato Michele bovi, giornalista e autore, che è riuscito a rintracciare tutti i protagonisti e i testimoni viventi che hanno avuto a che fare con il Cinebox e il suo diretto concorrente francese, lo Scopitone. In questo libro, oltre al racconto e alle testimonianze, compaiono gli elenchi di quei filmati realizzati in tutto il mondo e una serie straordinaria di fotografie e documenti che ritraggono sul set del Cinebox e nelle istantanee promozionali di quel leggendario apparecchio i nostri più famosi artisti di un’epoca irripetibile per genio e creatività.

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La Pieve/Verdeblu
Language
Italian
Pages
192

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2011, La Pieve/Verdeblu
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Table of Contents

Chapter 1. THE HISTORY / LA STORIA
The spy-story of Music Videos / La spy-story del videoclip
The Great Grandfather of Music Videos / Il nonno italiano del videoclip
Chapter 2. THE INSIDERS / ADDETTI AI LAVORI
Vito Molinari, Piero Pompili, Paolo Emilio Nistri, Benvenuto Bottani, Franco Iasiello, Edoardo Vianello, Clem Sacco, Peppino Di Capri, Roberto Marai, Ermanno Caselli, Roby Matano, Andrée Davis-Boyer, Bob Orlowsky, Frank Rose.
Chapter 3. THE MUSIC VIDEOS / LE PELLICOLE
Filmati per/Films for Cinebox / Colorama (1959-1964)
Films for Scopitone Made in France, Greatbritain, USA and Germany / Filmati per Scopitone realizzati in Francia, Inghilterra, USA e Germania (1960-1969)
Filmati in Super-8mm / Super-8mm films
Arabic films for scopitone / Filmati arabi per scopitone (1967-1974)
Chapter 4. THE MOVIES / I FILM
Songs in Movies / Canzoni al cinema

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Number of pages
192
Dimensions
23 x 30 x 1.5 centimeters
Weight
2.45811 pounds

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OL24749466M
ISBN 13
9788890616600
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24067905
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11471426
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11940783

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