Nitrate Base - 1997

This documentary celebrates the 100th anniversary of the cinema birth. It is an historic running through the technical and artistic evolution of the 7th art. We move from mute to sound, from B&W to color, trough all the genders (musical, Lyric, politic...). Beside it we have a kind of resume of the historic contest in which cinema lived till now, events and movements (neo-realism, classical etc.). All the aspects are taken in consideration: fashion, star system till the end, the sad end, of cinema in the theaters.

87min
1997
Released
Trakio rating0.0/10
IMDB rating6.7/10

About Nitrate Base

Nitrate Base Overview

This documentary celebrates the 100th anniversary of the cinema birth. It is an historic running through the technical and artistic evolution of the 7th art. We move from mute to sound, from B&W to color, trough all the genders (musical, Lyric, politic...). Beside it we have a kind of resume of the historic contest in which cinema lived till now, events and movements (neo-realism, classical etc.). All the aspects are taken in consideration: fashion, star system till the end, the sad end, of cinema in the theaters.

Runtime: 87min

Extra details

Original Title: Nitrato d'argento
Original Language: Italian
Directed By: Marco Ferreri
Production Companies
AudifilmSaloméASPEurimagesCanal+CNCMagyar Televízió Müvelödési Föszerkesztöség (MTV)RAI