'Marisa at 80 days', this is the title given by the author to the 9.5 mm film. The child is in the arms of her mother Laura, portrayed on 4 August 1928, when she was not even three months old, by her father, Guglielmo Baldassini. Long planes - almost without cuts - linger on the faces, looking for magnetic gazes and the bodily expressions of the filmed figures, and especially the little one. What is a homage to the little girl, made for a private viewing, is transfigured into a universal representation enhanced by the decaying effects of the emulsion. This shot makes it clear that, from the earliest childhood, the family film measures the physical and affective relationships of the family unit and the space of feelings that the camera is capable of catalysing and measuring.