The People of the Po (Gente del Po, 1943-47, 9 mins), a documentary on the villages on the banks of the Po and the people who live in them, looks forward to Il grido. Street Cleaners (N.U./Netezza Urbana, 1948, 9 mins) is a day in the life of Rome's street cleaners, filmed chronologically from dawn to dusk. "Gente del Po and N.U. provide dazzling early evidence of Antonioni's powers....Each film beats to the rhythm of the life that it portrays." (S. Chatman) Superstition (Superstizione, 1948, 9 mins) is a catalog of illegal superstitious practices in a small village near Camerino in the Marches. In The Amorous Lie (L'amorosa menzogna, 1948-49, 10 mins) the rather ordinary private lives of the stars of the fumetti-photographed comic strips-are contrasted with their public images to humorous effect. (With Anna Vita, Sergio Raimondi, Annie O'Hara, Sandro Roberti.) The Villa of the Monsters (La Villa Dei Mostri, 1950, 10 mins) is a film of monstrous sculpted human figures in the park of an ancient villa at Bomarzo, near Viterbo.