Archivio Luce goes online with a century of Italian history

The Archivio Luce, a vast Italian archive spanning nearly a century from 1924, has launched an online platform offering thousands of images and video documents. The archive, now associated with Aamod, Quilici, and Istituto Luce Cinecittà, covers art, information, literature, history, and science. Its newsreels document the shift from fascist information monopoly to democratic context, including coverage of Venice Biennales and Rome Quadriennali from their earliest editions. Post-1960s, the Caleidoscopio Ciac series captures perplexity toward new art languages, from admiration for Oleksandr Archypenko in 1946 to derision for Kazimir Malević in 1959. The site also features documentaries for the Ministry of Tourism by renowned directors: Gillo Pontecorvo on Udine, Ermanno Olmi on Milan, Mario Monicelli and Susi Cecchi D'Amico on Verona, Francesco Rosi on Naples, Michelangelo Antonioni with Giulio Carlo Argan and Maurizio Fagiolo on Rome, plus Bertolucci, Lattuada, Wertmüller, Lizzani, Zeffirelli, Bolognini, and Soldati for Turin. A 1949 Incom documentary shows Guglielmo Marconi's early signal transmission experiments.