''Giuseppina'' is a 1960 short British
documentary film produced by
James Hill, which was filmed in 1959, in Mandriole, Emilia-Romagna, near
Ravenna in the north east of Italy. It won the
Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject)
This is a list of films by year that have received an Academy Award together with the other nominations for best documentary short film. Following the Academy's practice, the year listed for each film is the year of release: the awards are annou ...
.
Production of the film was sponsored by the
British Petroleum company (BP), which also distributed the film. The BP webpage summarizes the film as, "set at an Italian petrol station where various characters pass through on their onward journey, while entertaining and playing with the attendant's daughter, Giuseppina."
In the 1960s and early 1970s, ''Giuseppina'' was broadcast 185 times on British television as a
trade test colour film.
[Keys, Andrew (2007).]
"The Statistician's Guide to Trade Test Colour Films"
webpage of the "Test Card Circle" website archived at WebCite fro
18 June 2008. Excerpts were also shown on ''
Vision On'', the BBC programme for deaf and hard-of-hearing children. It was released as an extra on the
BFI Flipside DVD release of "Lunch Hour".
Cast
* Antonia Scalari as Giuseppina
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Giulio Marchetti as Rossi
References
External links
*Watc
''Giuseppina''at
BP Video Library
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Giuseppina
1960 films
1960 documentary films
1960 short films
BP
1960s short documentary films
British short documentary films
Best Documentary Short Subject Academy Award winners
Sponsored films
Films directed by James Hill (British director)
Films scored by Jack Beaver
Films set in Italy
Documentary films about road transport
1960s English-language films
1960s British films