(11 Apr 2023)
ITALY SILK
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Caserta, Italy - 30 March 2023
1. Façade of Belvedere Palace and museum complex, a UNESCO world heritage site
2. Tilt down of circular silk loom at Belvedere Palace
3. Mid of 18th-century looms at Palace
4. Mid of spools of white silk
5. Mid of coloured spools of silk
6. Zoom in of museum assistant turning wheel of a mechanical loom
7. Mid of mannequin dressed in a silk outfit in the museum
8. Andrea Sabelli, owner, Antico Opificio Serico silk factory (screen right), walking with assistant towards his fabric store
9. Sabelli sorting silk fabrics on a shelf
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Andrea Sabelli, owner, Antico Opificio Serico silk factory:
“The dream of a king, because we have to go back to 1798 when Ferdinand the IV, who was King Bourbon of Naples and then became also King of Sicily, decided to set up a fantastic mill related to silk. This mill was a sort of utopia because around the mill, he built up a small city with 3,000 inhabitants at the time, and all of these inhabitants were involved in the business of silk.”
11. Close of jar containing silk cocoons
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Andrea Sabelli, owner, Antico Opificio Serico silk factory:
“We work for all over the world, so we make for some palaces all over the world like the White House in Washington, like something in the Kremlin, some chairs in St. Petersburg, or for the Pope, or for the Italian “Quirinale” that is the residence of our president."
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Rome, Italy - 3 March 2023
13. Wide of exterior of Spanish embassy to the Holy See in Rome
14. Visitors on a guided tour of the Spanish embassy to the Holy See
15. Maria Isabel Celaá Diéguez, Spanish ambassador to the Holy See in Rome (screen right), with an assistant, welcomes visitors to the embassy
16. Embassy assistant talks to visitors in a room decorated with silk damask made in San Leucio
17. SOUNDBITE (English) Maria Isabel Celaá Diéguez, Spanish ambassador to the Holy See in Rome:
“This house, this palace, is full of art, full of history, and it’s a lovely house in fact. Last year we were celebrating, we celebrated our 400th anniversary.”
18. Interior of Spanish embassy with curtains and tapestry of red damask
19. Visitors walking through embassy room
20. Close of a red silk curtain made in San Leucio
21. Close of chair with red silk upholstery made in San Leucio
22. Close of decorations in embassy
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Caserta, Italy - 30 March 2023
23. SOUNDBITE (English) Andrea Sabelli, owner, Antico Opificio Serico silk factory:
“In the White House we made a special lampas, made 100% of silk, in 12 colours, and this lampas should be now in the dining room of the White House.”
24. Close of Sabelli turning pages of a book containing pictures of work his company has done, ending with the White House dining room and the lampas design
25. Close of lampas design in the White House
26. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Assunta Pellino, former worker, Antico Opificio Serico silk factory:
“Well my sons, my two sons, have not continued the family tradition, unfortunately, because youths today look for something else, one went to Siena, he’s left this town, and the other is a carpenter, something he is passionate about, but the tradition ends here unfortunately, it has not gone on.”
27. Close of red damask design in the museum of the Belvedere Palace
28. Mid of green damask design in the museum of the Belvedere Palace
29. Aerial of Belvedere palace ++MUTE++
30. Wide of the Belvedere palace from below
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