Word: cinecitta
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...Rome's mammoth Cinecitta, Troy was razed for the third time in 3,000 years as Warner Bros.' two-acre wood and papier-maché reproduction of the ancient city (for Helen of Troy) was 80% destroyed by fire. As betogaed extras battled the blaze, cameras churned away for an hour and a half, leaving Warner's hopeful that it could salvage some usable footage from a $95,000 holocaust...
Liberated Genie. In a way, Mussolini set the stage for Italy's movie renaissance by building Cinecitta and granting state subsidies. But he also dictated the propaganda trash which was the industry's main prewar product. After liberation, Italy's democratic government resumed the subsidies. But Italy's able young film boss, Under Secretary of State Giulio Andreotti, 33, onetime journalist and underground fighter, wisely kept hands off the product. Result: such imaginative directors as Rossellini and Vittorio (The Bicycle Thief) De Sica had free play...
...months in the shooting at Italy's Cinecitta Studios, nine minutes short of three hours in the theater, the picture recreates ancient Rome with massive splendor and lavish detail. Nero's court lolls midst pleasures and palaces. Massed legions march in triumph through crowd-choked avenues. Mobs flee the burning city and storm Nero's palace. Christian martyrs fall to a pack of lions, burn by the score at rows of stakes in the arena of the Circus Maximus. One of them, Ursus...