Sestri Levante 1971 archive footage

Sestri Levante 1971

Archival footage shot in the summer of 1971 by Carlo Casu, an Italian filmmaker who gave the rights to distribute his historical footage. It contains stock footage of Sestri Levante, a coastal town in the Italian Riviera: panoramas of the beach with people swimming and relaxing, boats docking in the port, the Torre Marconi (Marconi […]

Italy 1960s: the launch of ship archive footage

Workers pull a ship in Liguria, Italy in 1960s

Archival footage shot by Carlo Casu, an Italian filmmaker who gave the rights to distribute his historical footage, in Sestri Levante, Liguria in 1969. It contains stock footage of the launch of a ship produced by Cantiere Navale of Riva Trigoso (today Fincantieri): the yacht sliding into the sea, workers who pull the slide with […]

Sestri Levante 1971 archive footage

Children walk on the beach of Sestri Levante in 1971

Archival footage shot by Carlo Casu, an Italian filmmaker, while spending his summer holiday in 1971 in Liguria, a region in northwest Italy. It contains stock footage of Sestri Levante, a town approximately 50 km south of Genoa: Basilica di Santa Maria di Nazareth, Baia dei Silenzi (Silence Bay), boats docked at the beach, the […]