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Maria Adriana Prolo and Museo Nazionale del Cinema Collections
- Source: Journal of Italian Cinema & Media Studies, Volume 12, Issue 2, Apr 2024, p. 299 - 306
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- 27 Nov 2023
Abstract
This issue of the ‘Archival Notes’ column describes two richly intertwined archival collections, one personal and one institutional. Both are held at the Museo Nazionale del Cinema in Turin (MNC, Italy) and house documents pertaining to the activities of MNC’s founder and film historian Maria Adriana Prolo (1908–91). The column provides a brief personal profile, details her personal and professional challenges – which led her to compare notes with Henri Langlois of the Cinémathèque française – and sheds light on the plans, accomplishments and never-realized projects of Italy’s first (and for decades only) woman film museum director.
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