Newspaper ad Mussolini Speaks 1933 Winter Garden Theater Fredonia NY color and frame added 2016
by David Lee Guss
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Newspaper ad Mussolini Speaks 1933 Winter Garden Theater Fredonia NY color and frame added 2016
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David Lee Guss
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Photograph - Photography
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"Compiled from photographs, newsreels and travelogue bits about Italy, 'Mussolini Speaks' presents the career, achievements and ambitions of the Italian dictator in an interesting and instructive way. Lowell Thomas delivers a running microphonic talk that represents something of a triumph for this sort of off-screen commentary. Mr. Thomas translates the fiery words of Mussolini, recorded as he addresses fervid crowds on various occasions, and interprets the meaning of his tireless industrial campaigns so that even those in the audience who are not Italians cannot resist a surge of patriotic feeling.
Perhaps the most valuable bit of film from the historical point of view is that showing the march of the Fascists on Rome in 1922, with Mussolini at their head; the preparations for an attack and the peaceful capitulation of the Eternal City to the youthful legions. The great events of recent Italian history, the treaty of peace between the Pope and the Italian Government, the various State marriages, such notable engineering projects as the irrigation of the deserts in North Africa and the draining of Lake Nemi to bring Caligula's galleys back into the light of day are pictured.
A considerable section of the picture is built around Mussolini's address in Naples on the anniversary of the march on Rome. Here Mussolini's philosophy of government is described in his own words and, as each point of the Fascist program is taken up in the dictator's flaming oratory, the camera moves out over the country to illustrate what has been done in that particular direction and how Mussolini has kept his promises to his people." - Mordant Hall, New York Times
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