L'eclisse del 17 aprile Filming Locations

The instrument maker finds trade exceedingly dull. His stock of scientific instruments, telescopes, etc., attracts a little curiosity, but no buyers. At last he pens a note which he hastens to forward to the newspapers, announcing that next day there will be an eclipse of the sun. Next day his shop is full, and it is vs much as he can do to hand out telescopes, glasses, etc., in return for the money which flows in. The real fun begins when the customers, with their glasses, get into the street. With the glasses glued to their eyes they stand and gaze at the sun in such intense preoccupation that a couple-or pickpockets find it child's play to go through their pockets, even two police officers yielding something to the light-fingered artists. Elsewhere a row of sky-gazers are knocked down and run over by a motor. A crowded balcony falls in ruins without disturbing the gazers' interest. in the sky, while two motorists drive full tilt at one another, and while their cars oscillate backwards and forwards they continue their examining of the eclipse.