This short movie is about a tiny theater for children placed in Villa Borghese, one of the most beautiful places in Rome. The plot is not so clever, trying quite unsuccessfully to make fun of the little viewers of this theater, however the film is interesting because it is one of the earliest Italian color films and it shows a theater existing since the '30s, beloved by Roman cinema buffs and recently nominated "cultural heritage" by Roman municipality. It's interesting that a similar idea was more radically developed in Herz Frank's most famous work: "Par desmit minutem vecaks" (1978), known internationally as "Ten Minutes Older". Anyway Francesco Maselli has been a great director of short movies; I suggest you "Un fatto di cronaca", "Bambini" and "Adolescenza". Note: in the short movie's opening credits, the title is "I bambini al cinema".
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