In 1976, Italian animator Bruno Bozzetto produced Allegro Non Troppo, a feature-length parody of Fantasia.

Bozzetto redirects here-for the Italian animator, see Bruno Bozzetto.

Bruno Bozzetto ( born 3 March 1938 in Milan, Italy ) is an Italian cartoon animator, creator of many short pieces, mainly of a political or satirical nature.

In each episode, Roy shows a short film on his portable, fold-up TV, often featuring segments from La Linea, an Italian animated series about a little man who is drawn ( using a single line ) at the beginning of the segment and then springs to life, communicating with his animator through high-pitched Italian mixed with gibberish.

* Bruno Bozzetto, Italian animator

* Emanuele Luzzati ( 1921, Genoa-2007 ), a Jewish Italian painter, production designer, illustrator, film director and animator

He was impressed by the Italian countryside and by the Alhambra, a fourteenth-century Moorish castle in Granada, Spain.

The entire Italian Peninsula was impressed by the Roman victories of Camillus.

From 1921 until 1930 he was the ambassador to Rome ; he was not overly impressed with Italian Fascism.

In the early 1930s, the Italian army was impressed by the Walther PP pistol, Beretta did not want to lose a big Italian military contract and designed the compact M1934 for the Italian army which accepted it in 1937.

Some weeks later ( and following a brief period in which Reynolds was temporarily replaced in the quartet by Don MacArthur ), Guard and Reynolds invited Werber to a performance of the group at the Italian Village Restaurant in San Francisco, where Werber was so impressed by the group's progress that he agreed to manage them provided they replace Gannon, in whose professional potential Werber had no faith.

In the early 1930s, the Italian army was impressed by the Walther PP pistol.

But it was the classical Pantheon in Rome and its perfect shape that impressed Hitler during his visit in the Italian Capital in 1938.

While playing for Argentina in the 1991 Copa América, the vice-president of Fiorentina was impressed by Batistuta's skills and signed him for the Italian club.

Her singing for the Italian Cultural Society in Bucarest so impressed the Italian Ambassador, the Consul and the Press Attaché that they quickly arranged for her to study in Italy, and in March 1947 she travelled to Milan to work with the great tenor Aureliano Pertile.

After just one season there he had impressed sufficiently to move to Italian side Lazio for a then record fee of 15 million DM.

Brady's performance in the tie impressed the Italian giants and in the 1980 close season they signed him for just over £ 500, 000.

However Clark's regular collaborator Tony Hatch was not impressed with the song and refused Wolf's invitation to arrange it for Clark to record ; ultimately Ernie Freeman arranged the song and Sonny Burke produced the session-at Western Studios in Los Angeles-in which Clark recorded the song not only in English but in French as " C ' est Ma Chanson " ( lyrics by Pierre Delanoë who also felt the song a poor choice for Clark ), German as " Love, So Heisst Mein Song " ( lyrics by Joachim Relin ) and Italian as " Cara Felicità "-lyrics by Ciro Bertini ).

The small Italian team were impressed by his sensible approach, and signed him for a full season for 1987.

However, he also scored his first championship points at the Spanish and Italian Grands Prix, both races of attrition in which he impressed by staying in the race.

A few months after Capello took charge of England, the Italian boss stated that he had been most impressed by Downing.

That deal made Johnson an instant hero in the eyes of many Harlemites, who were impressed that a brash 27-year-old black man could actually cut deals with the Italian Mafia.

Not only was Steiner impressed by Schläfli's mathematical knowledge, he was also very interested in Schläfli's fluency in Italian and French.

The architect of the first phase of Charles III's reforms was one such Italian, Leopoldo de Gregorio-a man of humble origins whose ability as a military supplier for the Neapolitan army impressed the king and raised him to royal prominence.

As it happened, King did not know Peccei, but he was equally impressed by the ADELA paper and tracked down its author via the Italian Embassy in Paris.

When Mauri returned to Italy after his treatment, Italian doctors were impressed that his tibial non-union was repaired.

These colleges led by the Jesuit order developed plays and operas that were Italian in style and impressed most by their luxurious equipment.

In 1986, Jarmusch wrote and directed Down by Law, starring musicians John Lurie and Tom Waits, and Italian comic actor Roberto Benigni ( his introduction to American audiences ) as three convicts who escape from a New Orleans jailhouse.

Italian libretti were the norm, even when a German composer like Handel found himself writing for London audiences.

Seats now include monitors for the electronic libretto system provided by radio marconi, an Italian company, allowing audiences to follow opera libretti in English and Italian in addition to the original language.

He is a true nod to the development of Italian comedy, providing humor, absurdity, and even some pity from audiences who frequent the commedia-scene.

Both Goliath and the Vampires ( 1961 ) and Goliath and the Sins of Babylon ( 1963 ) actually featured the famed superhero Maciste in the original Italian versions, but American distributors didn't feel the name Maciste had any meaning to American audiences.

Many Italian operatic singers and conductors were invited to perform for American audiences, including the great tenor Enrico Caruso.

It also found success on the European continent, where Italian directors and audiences were particularly receptive.

At the time, Carlson had appeared numerous times on Italian TV and this was seen as one of her largest audiences.

Despite these reservations, the film was screened at the festival and won both the Italian Critics Award and the Golden Lion award — introducing western audiences, including western directors, more noticeably to both Kurosawa's films and techniques, such as shooting directly into the sun and using mirrors to reflect sunlight onto the actor's faces.

Several other of their works were translated into German, French, English, and Italian but did not receive the same magnitude of the critical acclaim granted them by their Russian audiences.

It's also said that she initially spoke Italian with a slight French accent -- something that, reportedly, bothered Italian audiences of the time.

European audiences tended to prefer an Anglo-American in the lead, so Italian bodybuilders would adopt English pseudonyms for the screen ( Sergio Ciani became Alan Steel, for example ).

Both Goliath and the Vampires ( 1961 ) and Goliath and the Sins of Babylon ( 1963 ) actually featured the famed Italian folk hero Maciste in the original Italian versions, but American distributors didn't feel the name Maciste meant anything to American audiences.

By 1711, informed London audiences had become familiar with the nature of Italian opera through the numerous pastiches and adaptations that had been staged.

General understanding of the dimensions of the universe derived from the nested sphere model reached wider audiences through the presentations in Hebrew by Moses Maimonides, in French by Gossuin of Metz, and in Italian by Dante Alighieri.

While not a sophisticated actor or a flawless musician, his huge voice and volcanic renditions of the most forceful tenor roles in the Italian and French repertoires had a tremendous impact on audiences, enabling him to build a worldwide reputation as an elite performer and charge promoters on both sides of the Atlantic top-tier fees for his services.

Leone knew that there was still a significant market in Europe for westerns yet also realised that Italian audiences of the time were beginning to laugh at the stock conventions of both the American westerns and the pastiche work of Italian directors hiding under pseudonyms.

Along with her well-known classical repertoire, she also performs a mixture of easy listening, folk and pop style songs and bridges classical music to worldwide audiences with her uncommon ability to sing in English, Māori, Italian, German, Japanese, Mandarin Chinese, Taiwanese, Irish Gaelic, Welsh, French, Portuguese, Quenya, Latin and Scottish Gaelic.

The fact that at home he spoke English, Yiddish, Italian and German helped him reach out to audiences of many ethnicities in New York.

Despite his success abroad, Carosone was a stranger to Italian audiences.