Guerra e il sogno di Momi, La
(1917)
Director: Segundo de Chomón – Production: Itala Film, Torino – Original lenght: 833 m – Lenght: 762 m – Intertitles: Italian – Censorship certificate: 12583, 24/3/1917 – Première: 15/04/1917 –

Cast: Stellina Toschi (Momi), Alberto Nepoti (suo padre / his father), Enrico Gemelli (nonno di Momi / Momi’s grandfather), Luigi Petrungaro (Berto), Gina Marangoni (madre di Berto / Berto’s mother)

The film:

Little Momi is at home with his mother and grandfather, while his father is a soldier at the front. He lives in an elegant and cozy house, but he learns about the atrocities and the violence of the war from the letters coming from the front. There are things wich it is impossibile to hide. One night, after falling asleep on the couch, Momi is woken up by his favorite toys, Trik and Trak, that after coming to life start to fight in a battle. A stop-motion masterpiece directed by the wizard of the special effects Segundo De Chomón. 

 

The film restoration:

The restoration of La guerra e il sogno di Momi was carried out by the Museo Nazionale del Cinema di Torino, based on an incomplete, tinted and toned nitrate copy conserved at the Fondazione Cineteca Italiana of Milano, on 35mm safety copies printed in the 1960s and on 16mm material printed during the 1980s, conserved at the Museo Nazionale del Cinema di Torino. The production notebooks and the censorship certificate, which are conserved at the Museum, made it possible to correct errors in the editing and to insert intertitles. The original colorization was reproduced using the same techniques of tinting and toning as when the film was produced.

The restoration, which is dedicated to the memory of Maria Adriana Prolo, was conducted in 1991 at the Bruno Favro laboratory in Torino.

 

The Museo Nazionale del Cinema di Torino and the Associazione Culturale Strade del Cinema di Aosta published a DVD of the restored film, part of the book Omaggio in musica a Segundo De Chomón (curated by Claudia Gianetto and Enrico Montrosset, 2012). 


Link Vimeo Cineteca MNC:

http://vimeo.com/85155924

 



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