1. Renzo Rossellini's statement is obviously not meant to be taken seriously, however. Adriano Aprà, in his recent filmography in Le cinéma révélé , reports that the forty-six-minute film was broadcast on September 10, 1961, at 10:45 P.M. The credits say that it was "realized" by Federigo Valli and directed by Rossellini.

2. Baldelli, Roberto Rossellini , p. 232.

3. Giuseppe Ferrara, "L'Opera di Roberto Rossellini," in Rossellini, Antonioni, Buñuel , 42.

4. Guarner, Roberto Rossellini , p. 102.

5. Baldelli, Roberto Rossellini , p. 232. Mirrors have long been used in filmmaking, Rossellini explains, but only with an immobile camera. His contribution was to devise a way to use mirrors in conjunction with the Pancinor zoom, so that both the camera and the characters could move during a scene without botching the take. His explanation of the optics involved goes on for some three pages in Baldelli.

6. Giuseppe Patroni Griffi, "Anima nera," in Teatro (Milan: Garzanti, 1965), p. 142.