L’Industria dell’argilla in Sicilia

R: Piero Marelli  P: Tiziano Film, Torino. It ca. 1910

“In the 1910’s clay caves were working around Cefalù. The short documentary film shows us the different phases of the work process: from the hard clay mining and its transport to the handcrafted art of the potters and the artists who decorate and paint the produced objects.
The film restoration:
The preservation of L’industria dell’argilla in Sicilia was carried out by the Museo Nazionale del Cinema di Torino, from  a tinted and toned nitrate print acquired by the Museum in 1994 with a small collection of landscape documentaries. From the nitrate print, a dupe negative and a positive color print were printed on safety film, using the Desmet method.  The process was carried out in 1997 at the Haghefilm laboratory in Amsterdam.”
Museo Nazionale del Cinema

More films by Piero Marelli:
>>> Attraverso la Sicilia
>>> Nella conca d’oro
>>> Vita d’Olanda

EARLY DOCUMENTARY FILMS II /Labour