ABSTRACT
But how!—said my friend—more than 100 cinematographs exist in Rome alone. They exist in the Film Censorship Office at the Minister of the Interior, companies exist that spend millions and bring in billions, and compete amongst themselves with posters as big as bed sheets, in accordance with the Legislative Decree on the sale of paper, film studios exist, and the salaries of Ghione, Maciste, and Bertini [exist], Febo Mari who writes films in an d’Annunzian style exists, and so does Lucio d’Ambra, who scares the critic at Nuova Antologia (The New Digest); and you yourself say that the cinematograph is an art in and of itself, an original medium of expression, how is it then that something that is one thing and not another, doesn’t exist!
