1956 in Italian television explained
This is a list of Italian television related events from 1956.
Events
- 26 January-5 February. The 1956 Winter Olympics in Cortina d'Ampezzo are the first major sport event covered by the RAI.[1] [2]
- 10 March - Franca Raimondi wins the 1956 Sanremo festival, hosted by Fausto Tommei, with Aprite le finestre; Tonina Torrielli is runner up with Amami se vuoi. The two female singers, both rookies, are selected to represent Italy at the 1956 Eurovision Song Contest.[3] [4]
- 18-19 Aprile: RAI broadcasts live, in Eurovision, the wedding of Rainier III and Grace Kelly.
- 24 May - Italy enters the Eurovision Song Contest for the first time with "Aprite le finestre", performed by Franca Raimondi and "Amami se vuoi", performed by Tonina Torrielli.[5]
- 20 June - Resignation of Filiberto Guala, CEO of RAI since 1954. He was a skilled administrator, but considered controversial for the bigoted decency codes which he imposed on television. He was replaced by Marcello Rodinò.[6] Guala was a fervent Catholic, and would later become a Trappist monk.[7]
- 19 December - Birth of the company Il tempo TV, aiming to create of the first Italian commercial network. Its president is Renato Angiolillo, owner and director of the Roman right-wing newspaper Il Tempo.[8] After a four-years-long legal battle, the project is definitively stopped by a sentence of the Constitutional Court.[9]
- 31 December - The covering of the Italian territory by the TV signal is completed.
Debuts
- L'amico degli animali (The animals' friend), hosted by Angelo Lombardi, educational show about zoology.[10] The Lombardi's phrases "Hello, friends of my friends" and "Andalù, take it away", said to his African helper, become proverbial.
Television shows
Drama
- Il sogno dello zio (Uncle's dream) by Gugliemo Morandi, adapted by Corrado Alvaro fromt the Fyodor Dostoevskij's novella, with Margherita Bagni and Antonio Battistella.
- Charley’s aunt by Brandon Thomas, directed by Claudio Fino, with Ugo Tognazzi and Raffaele Pisu.
- Romance by Edward Sheldon, directed by Daniele D'Anza, with Lea Padovani and Paolo Carlini.
- The Bouligrin, satirical farce about the bourgeois marriage by Georges Courteline, directed by Antonello Falqui, with Bice Valori, Giarico Tedeschi and Alberto Bonucci
- I nostri figli (Our sons) by Ginetta Ortona, directed by Piero Turchetti, with Evi Maltagliati and Ivo Garrani; an happy middlec-class couple must face the unexpected death of the daughter's boyfriend. The play had won a RAI contest for the best TV script.
Miniseries
- L'alfiere (The ensign), by Anton Giulio Majano, from Carlo Alianello, historical novel about the Italian unification, seen on the side of the army of the Two Sicilies; to notice the presence, in small roles, of some future stars, as Domenico Modugno, Monica Vitti and Nino Manfredi.
- Cime tempestose (Wuthering Heights), by Mario Landi, from Emily Brontë, with Massimo Girotti as Heathcliff and Anna Maria Ferrero as Catherine Earnshaw.
- Il marziano Filippo (Filippo the Martian), by Cesare Emilio Gaslini, with Oreste Lionello, science-fiction miniserie for children; the plot is strangely similar to the E. T.’s one.
Variety
- Primo applauso (First applause), talent show, hosted by Enzo Tortora, who begins his long career as TV showman.[11]
- Lui e lei (He and she) and Lui, lei e gli altri (He, she and the others), good-naturedly ironic varieties about the family life by Vito Molinari, with Nino Taranto (sided, respectively, by Delia Scala and Tina De Mola), written by Marcello Marchesi. and Vittorio Metz.
- Rascel la nuit by Romolo Siena, with Renato Rascel.[12]
- La piazzetta (The little square), variety show, hosted by Riccardo Billi and Mario Riva. After three episodes, an exhibition of the dancer Alba Arnova with apparently bare legs (she wore a tight leotard) arouses L'Osservatore romano's protests and the show is deleted.[13]
News and educational
- La strada è di tutti (The road is for everybody) educational show about road safety by Giuliano Tomei.[14]
Births
See also
Notes and References
- Web site: 2014-01-09 . La storia delle Olimpiadi invernali - Cortina d'Ampezzo 1956, i Giochi di Toni Sailer e dell'Urss . 2023-12-24 . NEVEITALIA.IT . it.
- Web site: 2016-01-23 . Cortina celebra l'Olimpiade del '56 - Altri sport . 2023-12-24 . raisport.
- Web site: Manfrin . Edoardo . 2022-08-08 . La RAI ha pubblicato un filmato inedito dietro le quinte dell'Eurovision 1956 . 2023-12-24 . it-IT.
- Web site: 2018-05-12 . "Io, la prima cantante italiana all'Eurovision ma non lo sapevo" . 2023-12-24 . La Stampa . it.
- Web site: 2021-05-23 . Eurovision Song Contest, tutti i piazzamenti sul podio dell'Italia . 2023-12-24 . tg24.sky.it . it.
- Book: Monteleone, Franco . Storia della radio e della televisione in Italia: Costume, società e politica . 2013-11-26 . Marsilio . 978-88-317-3616-9 . it.
- Web site: 2016-05-27 . "No abiti sexy e tacchi": Daria Bignardi "vela" Rai3 . 2023-12-24 . ilGiornale.it . it.
- Web site: 2023-08-17 . Cinquanta anni fa moriva il Senatore Renato Angiolillo, precursore della televisione privata . 2023-12-24 . CBlive . it-IT.
- Web site: 2010-07-03 . Storia della radiotelevisione italiana. Anni '50, Tempo Tv: si tenta di scardinare il monopolio tv RAI . 2023-12-24 . Newslinet . it-IT.
- Book: Marchesini, Roberto . L'amore per gli animali: Come la relazione con le altre specie ci ha cambiato . 2022-04-28 . Lindau . 978-88-3353-851-8 . it.
- Book: Caselli . Roberto . Storia del rock in Italia: Protagonisti, album, concerti, luoghi: tutto quanto è stato rock dagli anni '50 a oggi . Gilardino . Stefano . 2019-11-12 . HOEPLI EDITORE . 978-88-203-9445-5 . it.
- Web site: Rascel la nuit - 1956 . 2024-03-28 . Renato Rascel . it-it.
- Web site: Grasso . Aldo . 2018-03-21 . Quel balletto di Alba Arnova, primo dei grandi «scandali» Rai . 2023-12-24 . Corriere della Sera . it.
- Web site: 2015-11-23 . La strada è di tutti, 1956 - . 2024-03-28 . Rai Teche . it-IT.
