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Saturday, August 24, 2019. 3:30 PM – 6:30 PM PDT. The Italian American Museum of Los Angeles, 644 North Main Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012. Quirino Cristiani - The Mystery of the First Animated Movies is a documentary by Gabriele Zucchelli that explores animation pioneer Quirino Cristiani, who is credited with producing the first animated film in 1...

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Baseball legend Yogi Berra departed this world nearly four years ago, but his unique and memorable quips like “It ain’t over til it’s over,” likely will remain in the pop culture lexicon forever. The one-time New York Yankees catcher, who was instrumental in leading his team to 10 World Series Championships, three of which he was named MVP, and app...

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Thursday, August 15 at 7:00pm. Westchester Italian Cultural Center | One Generoso Pope Place, Tuckahoe, NY 10707. Members $15; Non-Members $20. Register Online or call 914-771-8700. My Italian Secret: The Forgotten Heroes of the Holocaust is a documentary that tells the story of courageous Italians who carried out ingenious schemes to rescue and pr...

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Attention! Italian American families! An award-winning New York-based production company called 4th Row Films is doing research for a documentary on Italian Sunday Dinners. With this documentary, they are hoping to get to know Italian culture through the ritual of the Sunday dinner, and explore how the modern world has affected this tradition. They...

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Tuesday August 6th • 7:00pm. The Italian Cultural Foundation at Casa Belvedere. 79 Howard Avenue, Staten Island, New York, New York 10301. The second half of the 20th century is the most transformative period of time in the history of Italian culture, and the new role that women start occupying in post-war society is a clear signal of this transfor...

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“Andrea Doria: Are the Passengers Saved?, written and produced by Pierette Domenica Simpson of Novi, directed by Luca Guardabascio of Rome, will air on WTVS Detroit Public TV in the Detroit Metropolitan Area and throughout Canada on Thursday, July 25 at 9:00pm.  Simpson’s work is based on a true story: her immigration to America, from Italy, to mee...

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Rocco Petrone, the immigrant son of a couple from the town of Sasso Castalda, near Potenza, was the engineer monitoring the countdown on July 16, 1969 for the launch of the Apollo 11 spacecraft in Cape Canaveral that would take two men to the moon for the first time, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin. A mechanic engineer, he was the director of launch...

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«Nessuno potrà mai dire abbastanza bene di Rocco Petrone. Non saremmo mai arrivati sulla Luna in tempo o, forse, non ci saremmo mai arrivati senza Rocco». Con queste poche parole Isom “Ike” Rigell, ingegnere capo del Kennedy Space Center e addetto alle operazioni di lancio, restituisce tutto il peso di una figura rimasta a lungo in ombra, ma che ha...

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Il più grande anfiteatro al mondo, patrimonio dell'Unesco, inserito tra le sette meraviglie di tutti i tempi, è stato progettato con un criterio particolare. Il Colosseo, simbolo della città imperiale e adibito a manifestazioni pubbliche per assistere alle feroci sfide tra gladiatori, rappresenta non solo il luogo dove si svolgevano le rappresentaz...

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After 10 years of research, recording stories passed down by family members and gleaning much that was chronicled in his 2004 documentary, “Prisoners Among Us,” writer, lyricist, playwright and documentarian Joseph M. Orazi has released his captivating novel of historical fiction, L’America. This powerful series will remind readers of the impact im...

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