Biblio Cinema, issue number 13-16, Sep-Dec 1957

Italian cinema magazine entitled 'Biblio Cinema, Rassegna Bibliografica Internazionale del Cinema', Rome, 1957 The magazine, covering various aspects of cinema industry and films including international films, appears to have run for two years, between 1956 and 1957. This issue includes features about Kim Novak [short feature]; cinema and cinema going data and information from Argentina, Czechoslovakia, China, France, East and West Germany, Japan, United Kingdom and Italy [including information about the Cinema Museum in Turin]; cinema going in 1956 in Italy including detailed regional data; comment article about seminars and conferences which followed a plan to promote Italian Cinema; main contemporary French film directors with references to Jean Renoir, Andre Cayatte and Jacques Tati's Monsieur Hulot, Jean Cocteau and Robert Bresson; jazz in Cinema covering Louis Armostrong, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald; film advertising including publicity posters and a section about Italian technicians and press offices of the film industry; Films about artists mentioning Vincente Minelli's 'Lust for Life'with Kirk Douglas and John Huston's 'Moulin Rouge'; German Deutsche Institute fur Film und Fernsehen; section about international film bibliography; section about book reviews; section about international film magazines and periodicals, including a feature about Portugal and a list of cinema magazines by country; a section about cinema clubs; section about film reviews including 'Le Notti di Cabiria' by Fellini and 'La Nonna Sabella' by Dino Risi; data and lists of world film production including a section with film synopsis; soundtracks and disco; section about documentation including a report on International Meeting 'Films and phychological integration in social relationships' Also including promotional adverts, for example one with Fernandel, and a short feature on Charlie Chaplin's film 'A King in New York', appearing on the cover.