ABSTRACT
This chapter traces the interwoven Italian and US production histories of a series of short documentaries that resurfaced in the US National Archives in the late 1990s and early 2000s. They were produced under the Italian newsreel label La settimana Incom between 1949 and 1951 with entirely Italian production teams. The pro-American Incom newsreel series was known for recycling its own footage and using stock footage provided to them by US government and commercial newsreel producers. Through close textual analysis of the series, the author takes the reader on a reimagined post-WWII grand tour of Italy, stopping in each location to address the competing imaginaries and tensions that emerge where distinct cultural and political agendas are at stake.
