Figures & data
Figure 1. Cartoon by the set designer Gastone Medin about the birth of the Augustus production company, created by Blasetti to finance his first film, Sole (Sun, 1929). The writings on the ropes read ‘We have no technicians’, ‘We have no money’. ‘Closed markets’, ‘We have no artists’.
Archivio Alessandro Blasetti, Cineteca di Bologna.
Figure 2. Caricature of Alessandro Blasetti, ‘the director in boots’ by Michele Majorana (c. 1930–1935). Archivio Alessandro Blasetti, Cineteca di Bologna.
Figure 3. Blasetti (at centre, with microphone, wearing trademark overalls), the elder statesman of the postwar years, playing the director in Bellissima (Luchino Visconti, 1952) (screenshot).
