Italy Peninsula of Contrast [Motion Picture Film]
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- Created Date
- 1953
- Description
'Italy Peninsula of Contrasts' is one of several educational films created for Encyclopaedia Britannica Films. This film describes the geography of the northern mountain ranges and the Po Valley, farming and industrial advances, and life along the southern sea ports. Other focuses are on Italy’s economical and agricultural growth since the Roman Empire in major cities like Milan, Florence, and Naples. Studies on the arts, crafts, architectures and churches famous to Italy are also incorporated into the histories.
Color
Sound
- Creator
Sorensen, Clarence Woodrow, 1907-1982
- Partner
- Recollection Wisconsin
- Contributing Institution
- University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
- Collection
- Clarence W. Sorensen Collection - Motion Picture Films
Edna Schaus Sorensen and Clarence W. Sorensen Collection
American Geographical Society Library Digital Photo Archive - Europe
American Geographical Society Library Digital Photo Archive - Publisher
- Encyclopaedia Britannica Films
- Subjects
- Peninsulas
Mountain roads
Cable railroads
Pompeii (Extinct city)
Naples (Italy) Description and travel
Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano
Duomo di Milano
Ponte Vecchio (Florence, Italy)
Italian art
Vatican City
Documentary films
Travelogues (Motion pictures) - Location
- Europe
Italy (nation)
Pompeii (deserted settlement); Turin; Naples; Florence; Milan; Rome
Alps (mountain system); Apennines (mountain system); Po Valley (valley); Sicily (island); Vesuvius (volcano) - Type
- moving image
- Format
- Film: 16mmSafety film
- Rights
- https://uwm.edu/libraries/digital-collections/copyright-digcoll/
- Chicago citation style
- Sorensen, Clarence Woodrow, 1907-1982. Italy Peninsula of Contrast [Motion Picture Film]. 1953. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://collections.lib.uwm.edu/cdm/ref/collection/agseurope/id/4069. (Accessed April 19, 2024.)
- APA citation style
- Sorensen, Clarence Woodrow, 1907-1982, (1953) Italy Peninsula of Contrast [Motion Picture Film]. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://collections.lib.uwm.edu/cdm/ref/collection/agseurope/id/4069
- MLA citation style
- Sorensen, Clarence Woodrow, 1907-1982. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <http://collections.lib.uwm.edu/cdm/ref/collection/agseurope/id/4069>.