Smog
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Date: January 01, 1962 to December 31, 1962
Dates Note: 1962
Country of Origin:
United States
Place of Origin: United States
Languages:
Italian
Color: B&W
Silent: No
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Restoration funded by the Golden Globe Foundation. Restored by Fondazione Cineteca di Bologna and the UCLA Film & Television Archive in collaboration with Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc., from the 35mm original picture negative, a 35mm composite fine grain master positive, and a 35mm optical track negative. Laboratory services by L’Immagine Ritrovata Group and Warner Bros. Post Production Creative Services—Picture. Special thanks to Daphne Dentz, George Feltenstein, and Craig Johnson.
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Cities & Cinema: Los AngelesDescription:
In the postwar era, as American movie producers flocked to Europe for its cheaper costs and dramatic locales, Italian director Franco Rossi took his crew to Los Angeles. In Smog an Italian attorney (Enrico Maria Salerno) has time to kill on a layover in LA and happens upon a community of expatriate Italians who provide him with an impromptu tour of the city. To capture mid-century LA, Rossi shot at eighty different locations, filming in and around some of the city’s most iconic architectural landmarks. Though it never received a US theatrical release, Smog has achieved cult status over the decades.
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