This is a rare little documentary short by the director who would later make many major Italian feature films in a variety of genres. It follows for about twenty minutes a traveling business-man who relaxes for a while inside a big city cinema and watches a. It is a kind of "Cinema Paradiso" in miniature, and we get to see a score of patrons during the showing of a movie: the faces of women-chasers, lovers, enraptured film-fans, kids playing pranks, people enjoying themselves or bored out of their wits. It is a in its away a nice little tribute to the fantasy of the movies and movie-going. A fine book on this same subject matter of the movie-going experience is Gian Piero Brunetta's volume "Buio in Sala," whose eponymous title may have derived from this movie. I was able to see the short on the Istituto Luce website.
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