The
letters CSC often appeared in the opening and closing credits of Italian films
throughout the 1960s and early 1970s. The letters were attached to the names of
cast members and technicians who had attended the Centro Sperimentale Di
Cinematografica, the school funded by Mussolini in 1935 for the study and
advancement of the art and science of making motion pictures. For years at
least two people per film (whether primary or minor actors or technicians) had
to have the letters CSC attached to their names in order for the film to gain
state funding and tax breaks. Oddly enough, even when names of cast members and
technicians were anglicized into barely recognizable pseudonyms, the letters
CSC were still attached, explaining for example, why you would see Erica
Bianchi Colombatto CSC and Erika Blank CSC appearing in the credits for the
same film in both the original Italian language versions and then the dubbed
English-language export prints. The oldest film school in Western Europe, the
Centro Sperimentale Di Cinematografica is still financed by the Italian
government and focuses on research, publication and theory as applied to all
the cinematic arts.
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