The Italian film industry took shape between 1903 and 1908, led by three major organizations-Cines, based in Rome ; and the Turin-based companies ' Ambrosio ' and ' Itala Film '.

In July 1943, after several serious Italian setbacks ( such as the Allies ’ capture of Libya ), Cavallero was dismissed as Chief of the Supreme Command ( Commando Supremo ) and replaced by Vittorio Ambrosio.

The Arrows Grand Prix International team was founded in 1977, by Italian financier Franco Ambrosio, Alan Rees, Jackie Oliver, Dave Wass and Tony Southgate ( from whose surnames ' initials the team took its name ) when Rees, Oliver, Wass and Southgate left the Shadow team.

In 1977 he raced with Shadow, backed by their Italian sponsor Franco Ambrosio.

* Franco Ambrosio ( 1932-2009 )-an Italian businessman and sponsor of Formula One teams in the 1970s

* Ambrosio ( Italian " Of the Immortals "),

) There are even surnames from Latin ( Rex, Veritas, Ambrosio ), German ( Ymbrecht, Otto, Rumpf ), Italian ( Aquino, Buffardessi, Calda, Conti, Parco, Castiglione, Tolentino ), French ( Lourdes, Nantes, Grenoble, Troyes ) and English ( James, Nelson, Doughman, Burton, Gray ).

That year it bought Nikols Sedgwick Group, an Italian insurance firm, and formed RiskAttack ( with Zurich U. S .), a risk analysis and financial management concern aimed at technology companies.

These were the sole immigration records for entering the country and were prepared not by the U. S. Bureau of Immigration but by steamship companies such as the Cunard Line, the White Star Line, the North German Lloyd Line, the Hamburg-Amerika Line, the Italian Steam Navigation Company, the Red Star Line, the Holland America Line, and the Austro-American Line.

German production companies have been quite commonly involved in expensive French and Italian productions from Spaghetti Westerns to French comic book adaptations.

Italian companies also had a strong line in slapstick comedy, with actors like André Deed, known locally as " Cretinetti ", and elsewhere as " Foolshead " and " Gribouille ", achieving worldwide fame with his almost surrealistic gags.

In Italy, the Fascist period presided over the creation of the largest number of state-owned enterprises in Western Europe, such as the nationalisation of petroleum companies into a single state enterprise called the Italian General Agency for Petroleum ( Azienda Generale Italiani Petroli, AGIP ).

Within fifteen years, Handel, a dramatic genius, started three commercial opera companies to supply the English nobility with Italian opera, but the public came to hear the vocal bravura of the soloists rather than the music.

In exchange, Libya will take measures to combat illegal immigration coming from its shores and boost investments in Italian companies.

Other research has also concluded that later medieval armour, such as that of the Italian city state mercenary companies, was effective at stopping contemporary arrows.

There are seven licensed taxi operating companies in the republic, and Italian taxis regularly operate within San Marino when carrying passengers picked up in Italian territory.

However, it is obvious that 1964 saw the breakthrough of this genre, with more than twenty ( mostly co -) productions from Italian companies and also more than half a dozen Westerns by Spanish only or Spanish and American companies.

Italian and French companies produce most of the vermouth consumed throughout the world.

Its business district hosts the Italian Stock Exchange and the headquarters of the largest national banks and multinational companies.

The boom of Italian cinema, which gave Bertolucci his start, slowed in the 1970s as directors were forced to co-produce their films with several of the American, Swedish, French, and German companies and actors due to the effects of the global economic recession on the Italian film industry.

Italian companies were also the first to issue shares.

Today Sardinia is a phasing-in EU region, featured by a diversified economy, mainly focused on tourism and the tertiary, the economic efforts of last twenty years have reduced the handicap of insularity, for example with low cost air companies and information and informatic technologies, thanks to the CRS4 ( Center for Advanced Studies, Research and Development in Sardinia ), which developed the first Italian website, and invented the webmail, in 1995, that brought to the birth of several telecommunication companies and internet service providers based on the island, as Video On Line, in 1993, Tiscali, in 1998 and Andala UMTS, in 1999.

Numerous major Italian companies, such as MSC Cruises Italy S. p. A, are headquartered in Naples.

Today a number of leading Italian companies are based in the city, including Fincantieri, Ansaldo Energia, Ansaldo STS and Edoardo Raffinerie Garrone.

* List of Italian companies

Many Italian companies relocate to Ticino, either temporarily or permanently, seeking lower taxes and an efficient bureaucracy: just as many Ticinese entrepreneurs doing business in Italy complain of red tape and widespread protectionism.

The Bronx was the setting for the 1983 film Fuga dal Bronx, also known as Bronx Warriors 2 and Escape 2000, an Italian B-movie best known for its appearance on the television series Mystery Science Theatre 3000.

* The film Carlo Goldoni – Venice, Grand Theatre of the World, directed by Alessandro Bettero, was released in 2007 and is available in English, Italian, French, and Japanese.

Influenced by the Italian feature film Cabiria ( 1914 ), Griffith was convinced that feature films were commercially viable.

* 1912 – Carlo Ponti, Italian film producer ( d. 2007 )

Though initially skeptical, De Laurentiis agreed after being presented with the extremely high Italian grosses for the first film.

According to Robert Evans, head of Paramount Pictures at the time, Coppola also did not initially want to direct the film because he feared it would glorify the Mafia and violence, and thus reflect poorly on his Sicilian and Italian heritage ; on the other hand, Evans specifically wanted an Italian-American to direct the film because his research had shown that previous films about the Mafia that were directed by non-Italians had fared dismally at the box office, and he wanted to, in his own words, " smell the spaghetti ".

Lighting from a low angle was used more strongly in the Italian epic film Quo Vadis?

Italian film production held up during the war, with long features already established as the main form.

The term Neorealism was used for the first time for Luchino Visconti ’ s Ossessione ( 1943 ): it is considered by many to be the first Italian neorealist film.

With the release of 1958's Hercules, starring American bodybuilder Steve Reeves, the Italian film industry gained entree to the American film market.

Due to the success of the James Bond film series the Italian film industry made large amounts of imitations and spoofs in the Eurospy genre from 1964-1967.

Poliziotteschi ( Italian pronunciation: ) films constitute a sub-genre of crime and action film that emerged in Italy in the late 1960s and reached the height of their popularity in the 1970s.

* 1909 – Riccardo Freda, Italian film director ( d. 1999 )

Agfa began to produce motion picture film in 1913, but remained a largely local supplier until World War I boycotts of popular French, American and Italian film stocks allowed the UFA film studio to flourish, boosting Agfa's orders.

Federico Fellini (; January 20, 1920 – October 31, 1993 ) was an Italian film director and scriptwriter.

The Vatican's official press organ, l ' Osservatore Romano, lobbied for censorship while the Board of Roman Parish Priests and the Genealogical Board of Italian Nobility attacked the film.

Category: Italian film directors

The film The Big Blue, directed by Luc Besson in 1988, was inspired by his life story ( and the life story of the Italian diver Enzo Maiorca ); Mayol was one of the screenwriters.