Moviextra is a programme on Rai Movie which aims to enhance all the material on cinema that has been conserved in the Teche Rai. Set up with a dedicated Tv programme and an internet site, it has the ambitious objective, among others, of building an audiovisual dictionary of the television and radio programmes about cinema that Rai has produced in the sixty years it has been broadcasting. For two years Moviextra has been recovering past television broadcasts which are on the subject of cinema and information on films from between the fifties and the eighties. These are the years, and in particular the mid-seventies, when Rai was busiest in releasing information on films with programme titles such as work Anteprima, Zoom, Arti e Scienze, Cronache del Cinema e del Teatro, 16 e 35, Movie Movie, Cinema è, Cinema!, Prisma, Primissima. This recovery is often carried out with obsolete media (16mm, Umatic, Bvu, Pollice, D2) and is remastered, making the unique heritage available.
Among the many programmes, Cinema 70 was one of the most prestigious. Launched at the end of 1969, thanks to the effort of the curators (Oreste Del Buono, Riccardo Luna, Gianni Rocca, Bruno Torri), it was able to record a complete and updated picture of what happened in those decades of great international change: Latin American cinema and films from Eastern Europe; ‘faraway’ cinema (Iran, Turkey, Denmark, Sweden) and meetings with great personalities from international cinema; new independent Italian cinema and practical problems. Of course there are a lot of Italian films which have had celebrated monographic programmes dedicated to them: for example those on Visconti, Pasolini, Bene, Maselli, De Sica, Rosi and Fellini. Cinema 70 often used a then rare television formula, meeting the public.
In the edit proposed to Cinema Ritrovato, it was decided to remain as close as possible to the spirit of the broadcast, suggesting some rare footage including Francesca Bertini, Carmelo Bene, Dario Argento, Jerry Lewis, Raul Ruiz, la Cooperativa Cinema Indipendente.