Ancient buildings below Naples streets

Описание: (1 May 2011)
Naples, 5 April 2011
1. Zoom out from narrow street to Piazza San Gaetano
2. Wide of Piazza San Gaetano
3. Close up of Pulcinella, mascot of Naples, on display at the underground theatre
4. Wide of Neapolitan icons on display at the underground theatre
5. Tilt up of "Underground Naples" entrance in Piazza San Gaetano
6. Mid of tourists visiting an underground cistern holding candles
7. Tourists going down steps
8. Mid of cups used during WW II on ledge
9. Experimental greenhouse which was proposed for the underground of Naples
10. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Vincenzo Albertini, President of "Underground Naples" Association:
"Underground Naples was discovered about twenty years ago. The history here dates back more than five thousand years."
11. Tilt down from fake bombs, hanging from ceiling to tourists listening to their guide
12. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Vincenzo Albertini, President, "Underground Naples" Association:
"Without doubt, the objective was to take the core out of the ground periodically in order to build on the surface."
13. Mid of objects belonging to WW II era
14. Close up of objects
15. Mid of wall painting of the 1940s
16. Mid of tourists walking through narrow underground passage
17. Pan right of candles used for seeing underground
18. Mid of tourists walking through passage
19. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Francesca Passoletti, Student from Udine:
"It was very interesting to visit the underground city as I did not know anything about it. Especially I liked the stories about the "pozzari" (the people who looked after the underground wells), and I enjoyed visiting the WWII bunkers. It was very interesting."
20. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Lorenzo Ricci, Student from Udine:
"The final tour with candles is one not to miss. Generally speaking, the entire underground tour should be experienced."
21. Close up of a candle burning
22. Tourists underground walking and holding candles
23. Mid of tourists entering a narrow underground passage
24. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Vincenzo Albertini, President, "Underground Naples" Association:
"There was a plague that hit Italy in 1600s, a plague that brought half of Italy to its knees. The epidemic was so widespread it caused thousands of deaths across all the Italian regions. The people put their faith in five Teatini saints and history has it that through their faith and and because of the torrential rain that hit the region, Naples was saved from the plague. To commemorate the people wanted to name a street after the religious order of the Teatini (Vicolo Cinquesanti) but until the year 1500 (AD) there was a theatre there that we are about to see. So we have a magic theatre - it is there but you cannot see it. Let's go to visit it."
25. Albertini entering one of buildings that covers the underground theatre, opening shaft door and going down steps
26. Mid of Albertini going down steps
27. Mid of former backstage corridor of the theatre
28. Wide of the former theatre
29. Mid of Roman wall, "opus reticolatum" technique
30. Close up of shaped tufa stone being inserted in the wall
31. Mid of ruins
32. Tilt down from a window of a current house to the underground exit of the former theatre
LEAD IN :
Twenty years ago during a engineering dig, an underground world was discovered under the southern Italian city of Naples.
People from all over the world now come and marvel by candlelight at the narrow corridors and the ancient stone work.
STORYLINE :
Forty meters below the lively streets of Naples there is a different city; one that is quiet and dark.

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