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10 May1935
A special gift
Author
Famiglia Notarbartolo
Format
16mm
Duration
1'07''
Credits
Music by Saverio Cigarini & Mix audio Théophile Gagnard | Biennio di Musica da Film del Conservatorio di Musica di Bologna

10 May 1935. The special gift is a wedding present inaugurated by a newly married couple who take their 16mm camera and two dogs with them on their honeymoon. A few days earlier, on 25 April, Marco Notarbartolo di Sciara and Emma Vanzetti got married in Milan. It was a lavish ceremony with distinguished guests, filmed of course. Now we see them alone at a picnic break along the Via Emilia. Here is the moment when the gift deserves a respectable presentation and a close-up shot: it is a luxury suitcase, equipped with everything you need to eat and drink. What better occasion to open the suitcase and leave and relax? The journey will be long and full of stages. Sometimes honeymoons never seem to end, especially when they get off to such a good start... Nevertheless, the newlyweds will not abandon their commitments, Marco as a military commander in the navy and Emma who writes a very successful cookery column in the sophisticated magazine Domus, under the pseudonym E.V. Quattrova. The year after the picnic his book 'Il doppio quattrova ovvero la cucina elegante', Milan, Edizioni Domus, 1936 was published.

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