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♪ If you wonder why ♪

♪ You were born upon this earth ♪

♪ Where you live and love and die ♪

♪ What is it worth ♪

♪ Well I fought it all in vain ♪

♪ Not worth years of pain ♪

♪ Standing on this cold terrain ♪

♪ Then I met you ♪

♪ Our world ♪

♪ What a crazy place we dwell in ♪

♪ Our world ♪

♪ It's a globe we (mumbles) ♪

♪ A sea ♪

♪ Of despair that I once fell in ♪

♪ But I reached the golden shore ♪

♪ When I fell in love with you ♪

♪ Now I see ♪

♪ Wide horizons blue and shiny ♪

♪ My dreams ♪

♪ Have a heavenly design ♪

♪ We kiss ♪

♪ And my heart goes Valentine-ing ♪

♪ Because we're so in love ♪

♪ Our world ♪

♪ Is regently new ♪

♪ Because we're so in love ♪

♪ Our world ♪

♪ Is regently new ♪

(tense instrumental music)

(singing in foreign language)

- In my career of nearly four decades

in motion pictures, I've played every monstrous role

it was possible for writers to create.

But as you will see in the exciting film to follow

nothing invented by the human mind

can be as macabre, grotesque, and thrilling

as the behavior of people in so called real life.

(upbeat instrumental music)

(upbeat instrumental music)

(singing in foreign language) (upbeat rock and roll)

Now this fella's name is Franz Drago,

he's 27 inches tall and weighs 130 pounds.

His father was Spanish and his mother was Sicilian.

They were in Tokyo when Franz was born

and as Japan is the land of miniatures,

you can see what pre-natal influence did to Franz.

(energetic rock and roll)

Franz Drago is terrific in his specialty

of imitating internationally famous popular singers

but he has to hide his great talent

under the 27 inch bushel of his body

because the public is more entertained

by Franz Drago's dimensions than by his imitations.

(scatting) (energetic rock and roll)

♪ I ♪

♪ Aint got nobody ♪

♪ Oh darling ♪

♪ Nobody ♪

♪ To kiss and hold me ♪

♪ Nobody ♪

♪ To kiss and hold me ♪

♪ I'm ♪

♪ So sad and lonely ♪

♪ Oh lonely ♪

♪ Oh lonely ♪

♪ Lonely lonely ♪

♪ Won't some sweet mama ♪

♪ Come and rescue me ♪

♪ 'Cause I aint so bad ♪

♪ And I know ♪

♪ We lucked out ♪

(energetic rock and roll music)

♪ She wanted me ♪

♪ Oh no no no no ♪

♪ Baby ♪

♪ How much sugar ♪

♪ Dollars ♪

♪ I aint got ♪

♪ Nobody ♪

♪ Nobody ♪

♪ And nobody ♪

♪ Nobody ♪

♪ And nobody ♪

♪ Nobody ♪

♪ Aint no one ♪

♪ Aint no one ♪

♪ (Singing in foreign language) ♪

♪ Over there ♪

♪ Nobody ♪

♪ No no one ♪

♪ Nobody ♪

♪ Nobody ♪

♪ Nobody ♪

♪ Nobody ♪

♪ Nobody ♪

♪ Nobody ♪

♪ Nobody ♪

♪ Nobody cares for me ♪

Atlas was a strong man and he was reincarnated

as a book of maps.

Ajax was a powerhouse and he came back as a detergent.

But Hercules, mightiest of all strongmen,

has dozens of reincarnations.

All of them working in historical, Biblical, colossal films.

Performing superhuman exploits against the bad guys.

(tense adventurous music)

(tense adventurous music)

- Stop...

- But the real heroes are the studio laborers

who, at the end of each scene,

have to carry away on their shoulders, without effort,

uprooted columns, mountains that have been split in two

and the remains of erect temples.

- One, two.

- For generations, English ladies

have disdained to compete with foreign beauties

in putting up a front but if Mr. Paddy Hoose

is to have his way, they will soon come up from behind.

Mr. Hoose's method combines physical and vocal gymnastics

which help develop the figure divine

by giving new lymph and youth

to bosoms that were limp and old.

(vocalizing)

- One, two, three, four, five.

(vocalizing)

(singing in foreign language)

(energetic foreign dance music)

Bedouins, the once fierce warriors of the Sahara desert,

are now accenting the first syllable of their tribal name,

B-E-D, bed.

(upbeat dance music)

To interested tourists,

who watch the ancient tribal entertainments

and wandering carnivals,

they offer something more than a simple variety show.

For a price, mister tourist follows the manager Bedouin

into the tent of the owner Bedouin

to make contact with the call girl Bedouin.

Faithful to long established principles,

the Bedouins have given up their flocks of sheep

for flocks of girls.

For them, it's better to live but briefly in this trade

than a hundred years of herding sheep.

(upbeat indigenous dance music)

(energetic jazzy rock music)

As you can easily see, sometimes the culture

of America achieves brilliant results

by following the most astonishing paths.

- Good evening, I am very happy to express to you

in the name of the organizing committee,

warm thanks for accepting our demand.

Your presences here, though numerous and compact,

testifies how sensible you are

to the universal problems of culture and art.

As you already know, our contribution

will serve a great cause,

the safety of the more ancient and important ruins

of a remote civilization which are threatened

by the exigencies of our modern life.

Ladies and gentlemen, in the name of and on behalf

of the American Committee for the the Safety

of the Luxor Valley Monuments,

I open the curtain on the showing organized by this town.

(applause)

(energetic instrumental music)

Ladies and Gentlemen, I present to you, Miss Virginia,

Miss North Carolina, Miss South Carolina,

Miss Louisiana, Miss Oregon, Miss California,

Miss Utah, Miss Colorado, Miss Oklahoma,

Miss Arizona and Miss New York.

- The eminent and artistic sense

completes the beauty prizes, swings along the runway,

and gets inside the girl's sweaters.

Contrary to the Europeans, the Americans make use

of outstanding beauties as a pretext

to get at artistic and cultural results

while Europeans, in cases only apparently similar,

make use of artistic and cultural pretexts

to get at the outstanding beauties

or naturally any references to persons

or movie producers is purely coincident.

(upbeat energetic music)

- Miss California, 38.

(applause)

Miss Utah, 36.

(applause)

Miss Colorado, 36.

(applause)

Miss Oklahoma, 34.

(applause)

Miss Arizona, 36.

(applause)

Miss New York, 36.

(applause)

Miss Oregon, 36.

(applause)

Miss Louisiana, 34.

(applause)

Miss South Carolina, 34.

(applause)

Miss North Carolina, 36.

- With the selection of the beauty queen,

the picturesque competition comes to an end.

The money raised by these girls, in well filled sweaters,

will help to preserve the pyramids of ancient Egypt.

Money thus flows from the temples of luxury in Las Vegas

to the temples of Luxor in Egypt.

(sultry music)

All beauty contests, whether ennobled by cultural intentions

or not, generally have one common characteristic.

They start a great many of their winners

on the road to careers in the lively arts.

Like this Asiatic girl, for instance,

who's job requires to get along without a sweater,

or anything else for that matter.

The audience is Chinese and it's only right

that it should be.

We're in Hong Kong, the doorway to China

and the port of all the temptations of the Orient.

The girl, however, is of mixed blood.

In her veins there flows, and rather rapidly

we'd say from the way she moves,

the blood of the various races

who've enthusiastically given in

to the thousand of temptations of Hong Kong.

A splendid example of cross breeding

at a great world crossroads.

The crossing at which anyone,

whether he comes from the right or left,

be sure to find a freeway wide open before him.

(sultry piano music)

(tense drum music)

The knots that bind the delicate charms

of these two Chinese maidens are not difficult to untie.

The man who tied them is only meeting the requirements

of the staging and his slight tendency to sadism

was balanced by his worry

that he might damage the merchandise.

We're still in Hong Kong in the studio of a photographer

who's business is supplying layouts for magazines

published for readers with special tastes.

The fans of this kind of photography are very numerous

in the Orient and make it possible for publishers

of these specialized publications

to amass fat profits that are practically incalculable.

Each week, through a well organized distribution system,

the timid sadists of Hong Kong receive narration

of eroticism and torture.

(tense instrumental music)

Always on the lookout for new acts suited

to the tastes of the most sophisticated customers,

the inexhaustible imagination

of some Chinese night club owners

has no bounds or limits

and every night, in very private rendezvous,

new kinds of diversions are offered

to the insatiable curiosity

of seekers of forbidden sensations.

(sultry jazz music)

(tense instrumental music)

At first sight, these two girls seem to be engaged

in a innocent and playful wrestling match.

In reality, their movements, which seem to be

for defending themselves against their opponent,

are carefully worked out to give the rich

and offbeat spectators suggestive views

and torrid prospects, calculated to arouse

once more in their weary memories,

ancient and nebulous recollections.

(tense drum music)

They are two males and they are fighting

for the domination of the herd

and for the possession of the female.

Ignorant of the old proverb,

when two are fighting, the third enjoys the show.

They are unaware of the danger lurking in the undergrowth

of the Savanna.

The lord of the jungle is out hunting.

The zebra has paid dearly for his lust

for power and love.

Now his carcass, with all the ambitions that were inside it,

has become dinner for the king of beasts

and his royal family.

(tense triumphant classical music)

Three tons of bone, muscle, and flesh on the move.

It's an old male, who all alone

confronts the thousand enemies

that always lie in ambush for every wild animal.

One shot from a modern rifle is enough

to bring down the huge beast.

The negro bearers, proud of their white hunter,

are at the highest pitch of excitement and joy.

The rich prey represents for them and their whole tribe

a week of substantial and abundant meals.

The great white hunter, on the other hand,

will go away content with tails of his butchery,

completely satisfied with his brilliant achievement,

without forgetting, that is, to take with him

is a modest and well deserved souvenir.

The two precious ivory tusks of the fallen elephant.

(upbeat instrumental music) (men shouting)

(birds squawking)

(organ music)

(applause)

The bride is 24, the groom, 81.

It's not a love match.

The dominative, almost imperious presence

by the bride's side

of the vigorous best man,

bears mute witness to the fact

that in the case of this couple

the eternal triangle was formed

even before the wedding journey.

She is a professional prostitute.

The groom is an inmate of an old man's home.

The best man is the bride's steady companion

and shares with her the profits from the oldest profession.

The idea of having the young woman

marry the agreeable old man for a modest compensation

came from the best man.

It being the only way of eliminating the danger

of the girl's being sent back to the town of her birth

by a police order.

A measure the authorities do not adopt

if the girl can write Mrs. in front of her name.

(singing in Italian) (upbeat jazzy swing)

(speaking Italian)

(singing in Italian) (upbeat jazzy swing)

(upbeat instrumental music)

This is the dream place of those women.

The amusement quarter of Barcelona,

the ill famed Barrio Chino.

Every night, these dark streets, barely illuminated

now and then by the colored signs of night spots

of every type, become the meeting place

for a sampling of humanity

almost always on the fringes of the law.

Specimens often enriched by gentlemen of the hunt

for forbidden emotions.

Sometimes, by a kind of instinctive self defense,

the gentlemen who go hunting

for forbidden emotions in the Barrio Chino,

conceal their true identity beneath

a very definite disguise

and is certainly is nobody's fault

if afterwards, through so many searching

for forbidden sensations every night,

even they can no longer distinguish

between their original personality

and the one beneath the disguise.

(upbeat swing dance music)

(drunken singing)

We are in Munich.

A group of students from the local university

throw themselves in the delights

of a typical German beer hall party.

Student songs, beer, and a little spontaneous music

are the ingredients of this get together

which is the prelude to a ceremony

that's far more cruel and stupid

than the innocent and peaceful images

we are viewing would suggest.

The youthful hopes for the culture

of the Germany of tomorrow and it's governing class,

draw from their signs the courage necessary

to confront a test which the ironclad rules

of their association has rendered traditional.

A battle against fear in their faces

bear the permanent signs of the fight that they endured.

(drunken singing)

It's the ill famed Mensur.

Every self respecting German student

must have his face carved by a wound received

in a duel with a school mate.

It is a wound which every self respecting German student

will show off later with pride as the undeniable proof

of his courage and a maturity achieved.

(metal clinking)

(gasping)

(singing in German) (sultry parlor music)

This is a nightclub in the old quarter of Berlin.

Which every evening gathers within it's ancient halls

the aristocracy of the transvestites of half Europe.

In fact, it was in this club at the beginning of the century

that the first exponent appeared of that fashion

for wearing the opposite sexes clothes

that later spread like a spot of oil

to every corner of the world

until it has reached its present frightening proportions.

(singing in German) (sultry parlor music)

(applause)

(soft whimsical music)

Behind this door, hidden in the back room

of the modest neighborhood restaurant in Hamburg,

there exists a small world of unsatisfied women

who founded a club for those with special tastes

where they can meet once a week

and find in companionship the courage to break away

from a moral and social reality

which they do not share.

They are students, regularly married wives,

members of the industrial middle class.

There's every type in every category

and each one of them in this room,

covering 50 square yards every Saturday night,

searches for what the outside world can never grant.

The freedom to consider themselves apart, from,

and above every moral rule.

(soft whimsical music)

(energetic jazzy carnival music)

A humorist once said that the carnival

is a strange world in which the freaks

are not the people inside the booths

but the one who buy tickets to go and see them.

Perhaps by taking their queue from this truth,

the organizers of the Luna Park

of the city of Northern Europe,

have invented some attractions that are absolutely original.

Here is one of the novelties.

The game consists of trying to pin one's opponents shoulders

to the mat, but victory is not complete

if the balloons, which the contenders have tied

behind their backs, do not explode.

The game had immediate success.

Also because all the feminine spectators

who so desire are free to get into the fight.

The German men's passion of wrestling

shows rising, un-arrestable progress every night.

(shouting) (whimsical carnival music)

This is a novelty at Luna Park, too.

It comes from France and is called the bridge of marvels.

The mechanism is very simple.

A wind pipe connected to a perforated boardwalk

vibes a powerful air jet upwards

with scenic results of spectacular interest.

Visitors, generally young couples,

are more and more numerous

and amid the rippled laughter of the spectators here, too,

the sports loving Northern's continue their healthful custom

of catching a breath of fresh air.

For the fisherman on the island of Solan,

today is a day of celebration.

Their catch yielded all four of the great sea turtles

whose tasty and juicy flesh

is an exquisite delicacy to gourmets allover the world.

With their forthcoming profit in mind,

the men work rapidly and accurately.

In a few minutes, their work is done

and the same men, thinking of the turtle,

mild and innocent symbol of slowness,

observe that he who goes slow goes safe and far

and doesn't come back.

In this corner of Africa at the southern part

of the dark continent, white men are permitted

to hunt upon of paying a fee but Negros are not.

The decaying carcasses of animals

with the flesh cut away and marks left by primitive men

stealing the bodies of surviving beasts,

bear witness, however, that among the natives

the urge to break the restriction is stronger

than their fear of consequences.

But actually it is more likely

that the natives are driven not so much

by the love of hunting as by the necessity for finding food.

The only ones who do not hunt in this area are the English

to whom the still confused political situation

gives the right to keep watch that the local tribes

do not slaughter the wildlife.

In compensation, however, now and then they can

have the thrill of an exciting manhunt among the Africans.

After all, it's the only hunting permitted by law.

(energetic drum music)

On the coast of Malabar India

a man is gravely ill and his relatives

have called in a group of specialized healers.

Here they are.

Their (mumbles) following an ancient

and spectacular ritual,

is intended to drive the spirits of evil

out of the sufferer's body.

(tense drum music)

We are near the end,

not only of the sick man but also of the rite.

Now the sorcerer will take a chicken,

donated by the patients family, and devour it then and there

as a symbol of the defeat of evil.

It's the only moment in which the sick man displays

any sign of interest.

For in that chicken or in the broth he expected

will be made of it, the poor patient had placed

all his hopes for recover.

These people will never recover, either.

Their vices, which pass with complete indifference

from smoking to drugs, are much stronger

than their will to live.

One man's vice may be another man's necessity.

Cocaine, a dreaded word in decent society,

is the stuff of life to the Indians of Ecuador.

By chewing coca leaves, thoroughly toasted

and treated with lime, they are able to sustain any labor

and forget food and the misery and sacrifice

of their dreary existence.

Even children learn to use the leaves

before they learn to walk.

(soft classical music)

The primordial theories concerning the coca

of the underprivileged Indians of Ecuador

received dramatic confirmation

also in the slums of well ordered

and civilities great cities.

These two women in Hong Kong,

by now resigned to be captives of the vice,

go through the horrors of waiting

for their daily supply of cocaine and morphine.

Today, the peddler is late.

(tense jazz music)

But most of the time, the distribution of the drug

is carried out with sinister exactness and punctuality.

In this Chinese opium den, the little pellets

have arrived in time to assure the customers

a brief sojourn in their artificial paradise.

A paradise these men acquire at the price of their lives,

which would drift away piece by piece

and day by day along with the smoke of the drug

they draw through the pipe stems.

(tense jazz music)

This is the Maharaja of Mysore

who is venerated by his subjects as a divine being

because once a year he preforms the miracle

of making rain fall.

In the minds of his subjects,

the Maharaja has a continuous, direct connection

hot line with the supernatural.

Even if the supernatural is the office

of the weather bureau in Calcutta.

But his subjects are only interested in the rain

swelling the water of the sacred Ganges,

in which they may purge themselves of their sins

and those of the Maharaja.

It's not the water of the sacred Ganges

but that of a swimming pool in Munich.

Nevertheless, this too is a religious ceremony.

It's the baptism of the new converts

to the sect of Jehovah's Witnesses.

The men in the white undershirts

are brothers of long standing

appointed by the community to baptize the new witnesses.

(crowd chattering)

The religious movement called Jehovah Witnesses,

very popular in Northern Europe, grows more powerful

and solid everyday.

Today in Munich, their highly organized annual congress

is in progress.

Upon this broad pasture gathered more than 150,000 people.

(Man speaking German)

(singing in German)

All Jehovah's Witnesses are firmly convinced

that each one will have his special place in the new ark

which will save them from the imminent universal flood.

The one thing they forget is that

to save the entire congregation,

the ark would need to be more or less

the same dimensions of the world

that is about to be destroyed.

(singing in German)

Here it looks as if the universal flood

had already taken place.

We're on to Halian the archipelago of desolation.

Where every form of live has been extinguished

since time immemorial.

The natives who eek out an existence

along the edges of the sinister swamp

speak vaguely of an object which fell from the sky

ages ago and plunged into the depths of the water

and since then, all plant life has withered and died

and the human inhabitants have disappeared

from the region like the victims of some mysterious sorcery.

(tense music)

It's the Berlin Wall.

It is several miles long

and stretches like a sinuous and evil snake

across the entire city, dividing at one at the same time

the hearts of the German people and two civilizations

in perpetual discord.

The wall was constructed several years ago

in a single night by thousands of soldiers,

police, and citizens of the Eastern sector.

It's a little less than two yards high

but it is impassable.

On the Eastern side, from which the most frequent

escape attempts are made,

armed sentinels stand guard day and night,

under orders to prevent, at whatever cost,

any East Berliner from passing over

to the Western sector.

(tense music)

During the years that the war has divided the citizens

of the same city and sometimes mothers

from their children and brothers from brothers,

the chronicle is rich and desperate

in courageous episodes.

One of these which occurred recently boarders

on the prestigious.

A young man carried his fiancee and his future mother in law

to the western sector by hiding them in the trunk

of an automobile.

A topless sport model selected purposely

because of it's low slung body.

He approached the checkpoint

and dashed through the various obstacles in the car

from which he had removed the windshield.

With a lightening like maneuver,

he drove under the barrier and into the Western sector.

Since that time, the authorities have added vertical bars

to the barrier to discourage

other desperate escape attempts.

Sometimes, however, lady luck is not so generous.

In Bernaur Strasse

where the war cut several buildings in two

silence reigns as in places dedicated

to the most sacred memories.

Here, where the possibilities for escape

offered by windows and roofs seem greater,

fate has a taken a more bitter tone

of those who with an act of rebellion,

have tried to free themselves

from the most fatuous limitation imposed by man

upon his brothers.

That of human liberty.

(tense music)

There is a wall here, too.

It was erected by the city government of Naples

so as not to offend the eyes of tourists

and the fastidious inhabitants of the elegant neighborhoods

with the sight of this shanty town founded some years ago

by a group of homeless citizens.

In contrast with the Berlin Wall, though,

there are no sentinels standing guard

at the one in Naples.

Anyone may pass in at will through it's various reaches

and take a look at the shanty town and it's inhabitants

and up to now, numbers of curious visitors

have penetrated its barrier.

With the exception, perhaps, of those who should

of done so as an official duty.

(upbeat music)

Signor Antonio, up to a short time ago,

he confesses it himself.

Followed the difficult

and dangerous profession of smuggling.

His activity, which, if we don't go in for subtleties,

might be regarded as an affirmation

of free enterprise against monopoly.

Reassured a rapid and regular source of supply

to all the cigarette black market in Naples.

Now, he says, he's given up his dangerous profession

and if he carries out one of his operations once more

it is only, he says,

to serve the cause of cinema entertainment.

In fact, Signor Antonio agreed to reconstruct

one of his operations for us

and show us the salient phases of the complex activity

which kept the smuggled cigarettes

pouring into the booming Neapolitan markets.

The packages, naturally for this demonstration,

do not contain cigarettes.

(speaking Italian)

(water sloshing)

He says, "You see, I left the sacks here.

Three or four days later when things calm down

I came and got them.

The revenue has passed but their boats were too high

to come in here."

What do you say?

With that face, do you believe he won't come back

in three or four days this time, too?

The merchandise brought into Naples

by the various Antonios ends up in the Forcella market.

One of the busiest and best stocked in southern Italy.

Here one can find just about everything

but it's highly probable that the foreign ministers

of the various interested nations

got the first idea of the common European market right here.

In fact, the way the common market functions

is merely an imitation

and not even a completely successful one

of the modern and extremely well stocked market of Forcella.

(energetic music)

In Naples, the cult of the dead is very lively.

When a difficult situation arises

the Neapolitans have recourse to the dead.

They call upon them for everything.

The success of a business deal, the recovery of a friend,

the death of an enemy, a happy marriage.

Well, the most frequent request is for three numbers

to play the lottery.

As a matter of fact, in Naples when a loved one dies

the idea of mourning is closely tied

in with playing the lottery.

(praying in Italian)

This widow still expects her husband to support her

though he's long since dead.

She's imploring him to put her on the track of money.

Once they are interpreted and technically selected

the Neapolitans dream have transformed to numbers

and then if the numbers are not drawn,

there's no great harm done.

A week passes quickly, one can always play again.

Nothing in the world could prevail on the Neapolitans

to give up their weekly ration of illusion.

The attempt to solve personal problems

with a winning lottery ticket

becomes a reason in some cases to go on living.

Naples is the home of the evil eye.

The fairly common profession is that of the incense spreader

who goes about the streets entering houses

and shops with his improvised tin censer

spreading perfumed smoke.

(energetic tense music)

(speaking Italian)

In Naples, many people believe in the evil eye

but out of evil comes good,

for those who earn their livelihood by spreading incense

against the ominous awe.

Ridiculous as it may seem,

some superstitious people think

that luck can be theirs by breaking a wishbone.

Others come across a hunchback

and are asking to rub his spine to bring them luck.

(energetic music)

(speaking Italian)

We're on the stage of a small vaudeville theater.

The company, almost complete, is rehearsing the numbers

for a new show.

(energetic music)

They're very proud of their featured dancer, Rudy.

He believes that he is the living reincarnation

of Rudolph Valentino.

He was born the night that Valentino died

and nightly, in this small theater,

he performs the legendary lover's famous tango.

(sultry tango music)

His smug expression seems to assume

that a sigh will rise from females in the audience

and he won't be happy until a woman in black

throws flowers on his grave.

(sultry tango music)

It's dawn in a southern Italian town.

In this town in the deep south, attachment to the earth

has deep almost legendary origins.

(singing in Italian)

Aware of the necessity for fertilizing the fields,

entire families cooperate during the night

in accumulating a considerable quantity of fertilizer

which will help towards the production

of a more bountiful annual harvest.

The service for collecting

the raw material works to perfection.

For these people, the word plumbing is an abstract meaning,

almost suggesting science fiction.

So, for the present, this is the only method

of solving the needs of the south.

(singing in Italian)

Here too, day by day,

private enterprise makes notable progress.

This boy prefers to ignore the public collector

and perhaps, without being aware of it,

applies the sound commercial principle

which eliminates any middle man

between producer and consumer.

(speaks Italian) the street of the Roman artists,

modern bohemians with automobiles and bank accounts.

Every year, opens its courtyards,

full of garages and attics with central heating,

to poor artists, to those who have yet achieved success

or at least an exhibit at a stylish gallery.

So, every year for several days in this famous street,

the so called artists fair is held for painters

still struggling upwards.

Among these men and women, who sometimes

are men and women only by virtue

by their birth certificates,

are hidden the future talents which will enrich

tomorrow's culture with their words

and while they write their names

in the great album of glory,

the refine their sensibilities and gatherings

for the high cultural level.

It's well known that artists are always considered

free of the prejudices and inhibitions

which restrain the instincts of ordinary people.

For some time, however, the youthful dissipation

of the past is given way to manifestations

which resemble less and less an affirmation

of rebellion against conformity.

Since the time of the existentialists,

the path of modern art passes more and more often

and more willingly through experiences like this.

Certain works of modern art, as all know,

hardly have to go on sale before they are snapped up

and the snapping up is generally down by the members

of the vice squad.

(energetic drum music)

With the most absolute respect for the proverb

which says that dog is man's best friend

and woman is the dog's best friend,

the modish ladies of the capitol

are noted for the particular attention

they devote for their charming and faithful canine friends.

(dogs barking)

If the faithful canine has the symptoms of a tumor,

especially if it is far advanced,

its mistress, without a thought of expense,

has an operation performed at once.

No ordinary veterinarian will do.

The dog must have the attention of a medical man

of at least the status of Dr. Casey.

When this Casey goes to bat,

the result is a miracle cure.

(tense instrumental music)

Meanwhile, these wait for their turn

in the well equipped dormitory of the specialized clinic.

All of the purest thoroughbreds.

They are lovingly cared for

by the nurses of their mistresses

who see to it that they keep warm

and as comfortable as possible.

They've caught cold or have a slight inflammation

of the stomach or perhaps the measles and the mumps.

The old saying, a dog's like is losing its bite

is enough to consider that every day

the existence of these charming little beast

is becoming more like that of human beings.

Among other things, even men are sometimes

run over by an automobile.

(dog whimpering) (somber classical music)

And here are a few almost too obvious demonstrations

that the difference between men and animals

is in some cases, at least from a formal

and external point of view, very subtle and problematic.

(ethereal tense music)

(energetic jazzy music)

(jazz music)

(upbeat jazzy music)

You see, what did we say?

Before this cage, what difference is there

between this sprightly, but possibly dutied old gentlemen

and the immensely dignified elk?

(soft tense music)

In the heart of Arabia, camels are useful

not only as tireless bearers of men and merchandise.

The abundant consequences of their boundless thirst

are collected in special receptacles

and used by the local hairdressers

as an effective rinse to make the young

and pretty Arab girls turn blonde.

(soft tense music)

(speaking foreign language)

(upbeat energetic music) (speaking foreign language)

The miracle is accomplished.

The delicate operation is completely successful.

(soft tense music)

The Indians have not yet discovered

the liquid generosity of the camel

and in dressing their hair

they make use of the dyeing propensities

of a certain type of berry.

(soft tense music)

Before laughing at these hairdos

think well upon modern hairstyling

and the faces of the young people in our country.

When a young Papuan decides to get married,

he must ask his future mother in law

instead of his sweetheart's father

for the hand of his bride.

These Papuan villages are matriarchies,

therefore the women rule the roost.

We are witnessing a wedding ceremony.

The bridal couple is subjected to ritual treatment.

They are both greased and thoroughly massaged

by the oldest woman in the village

who has previously instructed the bride

as to the significance of the nuptial rite

and the duties it imposes.

Not an easy task when one considers

that the marriageable age

for Papuan girls ranges from eight to 12 years.

Here, an 18 year old unmarried girl

is already a sour old maid.

When the matrimonial ceremony is over,

the married couple withdraw into the hut

with the old folks for company

while the rest of the village abandons itself

to frenzied celebration of the wedding feast.

Two women begin the dancing with a ritual ballet,

the movements of which signify that women is queen

because she conceals within her the mystery of life.

Immediately afterwards, it's the men's turn,

with the permission of the old women,

today the Papuan husbands can go off the leash for awhile.

Men and women masked by these strange headdresses,

dance together in couples

without knowing the identity of their partners.

(upbeat rock and roll)

These are native dance customs.

It all depends on what part of the world

you are a native of.

In the wilds of the island of Haiti it's the Macumba.

In a modern night club, it's rock and roll.

Can we, from the height of our civilization,

truly call one primitive and the other cultivated?

(energetic rock and roll) (man scatting)

(singing in foreign language)

In the Jamaican quarter of London,

a usage prevails which can only seem eccentric

to our eyes used to more severe customs.

When a man cannot support a woman by himself,

he forms an association with several friends

to make a kind of consortium.

Thus a woman will have four or five husbands

who support her together and enjoy her charms by turns.

In order not to disturb the intimacy

of the little Jamaican family,

we pointed our lens through the window.

Domestic peace reigns serenely

and the woman feels perfectly at ease

beneath the gaze of her four husbands.

Until a short time ago, this woman had five husbands.

But it's not easy to look after five men

and the poor creature was driven by necessity

to give up the fifth.

(soft reflective music)

And here's another way of showing a love for nature.

The tourists say that life in the open

has its advantages.

You sleep in the pure air of the pinewoods,

you breathe the fresh ozone of the sea

and you're not a captive of the demands of city life

and more important, you don't have to pay a hotel bill.

(laughing) (upbeat jazz music)

For their part, the young people,

who no doubt agreed reluctantly

to follow their aging parents on the rough trail

of camp life, always find a way to keep boredom away.

Here's a group of them engrossed

in a recently invented game.

A blindfolded fellow must recognize the girl he has kissed

by the touch of her lips and her personal technique.

If he guesses wrong he loses and must pay a forfeit.

But if he recognizes both the technique and the girl,

then, well.

We can't say exactly what his prize will be.

When we asked the girls about it,

they blushed without reply.

However, there's one consolation,

at least they blushed.

(upbeat swing jazz music)

If kids take their spicy game seriously,

imagine how grownups behave.

Watch.

This pastime is the craze of England.

It's called Hoodwink and the players have

to guess the identity of the girl

who's been chosen from among the feminine acquaintances

of the male contestants.

When one of the players guesses the name of the girl,

she has to take off her hood

and with a wink she goes off with the lucky man.

As in all parlor games the quiz has its weak point, too.

Sometimes it happens that the same girl

is called by two, three, or even four spectators.

But this only makes it more interesting.

(laughing)

- It was mine, now give it to me.

(upbeat swing jazz music)

- Could be my wife.

(laughing)

- That's the clip that I always,

that's the clip--

- Now, she's getting more familiar

and the gesture and the movement.

(laughing)

- Joan.

- No, it's Carol.

- Not Joan then.

- I don't think she knows who it is.

- Let's see who it could be.

- What (mumbles) did we meet?

You don't know?

(laughing)

- I must confess, she fooled me completely.

I couldn't understand who she was.

Another hangman's lady.

- The return of the hangman's lady.

- Well, let's see if she looks a little bit

more familiar than the other ones.

- Yes, she does. - She's good, I like her.

- Very (mumbles) slip.

As I always say.

Many a slip between the cup and the lip.

(laughing)

- I hope you don't say it very often.

- Not too often.

Now let's see.

- Ah, now. - This one begins

with the lifting.

- Oh well, now my wife always gives

the right leg.

- So this is not your wife?

- Couldn't be.

(laughing)

- Oh, no that's mine.

- Here we go.

- Oh no, you had.

You had the last one.

That is mine.

(swing jazz music)

- Oh, I think looking more familiar.

- Where did we meet this one?

Was it the (mumbles)?

- Could of been there, yes it could of.

- I think I recognize that back.

- Boy, what a back.

- Oh wait, I see something familiar.

Joan. - Joan!

(swing jazz music)

(laughing)

- This time, everything was fine.

Out of three customers, only two guessed right.

(laughing)

Luckily, man's great moving force love

still keeps its romantic flavor against all odds.

Though times have changed

and is no longer the rattling of a carriage

but the muffled purr of a motor

that forms the background

to the murmurings of sweet nothings.

The sight of two lovers whispering tender phrases

has remained unchanged.

A truly moving and heartwarming sight,

which however, is spied upon from time to time

by some stealthy spectator.

Here you see some of them caught by our lens

after a long and patient wait.

They are voyeur or watchers.

The unfortunate outsiders looking in on love.

(upbeat music)

As opposed to the professional,

the amateur voyeur, even if no longer young,

can satisfy their taste at very little cost,

naturally, they can't expect much.

This kind of show might bear the slogan

if you like it, enjoy it.

(upbeat jazzy music)

Those little machines don't have many customers

in the summertime.

Then the amateur voyeur wants something

with more life, something more tangible

and they go looking for it on the beaches

always full of pretty girls.

There they go, swinging their hips

with every moving part in tip top

or tip bottom condition.

Their easy movement puts to shame

the finest mechanical device assembled by man.

The rhythmic motion has a hypnotic effect.

They attract all eyes,

their conquest is complete.

They dominate the scene.

Sometimes after the ingenue the special attractions show up.

(upbeat jazz music)

When the muscle boys and more or less genuine tourists

reach an agreement, they need only to choose

a base of operations.

It's not really a difficult problem.

When they go home, the girls from the northern countries

will tell their friends that in Italy

the problem of the relations between the sexes

is still all it seemed.

Like this gentleman, for instance.

(upbeat jazz music)

Inspiration for painters, who try mostly in vain

to capture the astonishing colors on canvas.

Muse of songwriters, who voice their despair

at ever finding another place its equal.

Attraction for tourists who revel in its sun,

sea, and sensuous splendor.

The island of Capri beckons to visitors

from both hemispheres to shed the problems of reality

and to escape in the fantasy world created by nature

in a generous mood in the bay of Naples.

(soft classical music)

None of the many elements of an unforgettable vacation

is lacking here

and they are carefully listed in the folders

distributed by the travel agencies.

Sun, sea, local color,

the Faraglioni, the looks hotels

of the typical narrow streets.

(soft classical music)

In addition, here there are the fisherman

and famous fisherman of Capri.

Hello, what are you doing?

- I take the American tourist ladies out for a boat ride.

- You, too?

- Sure.

- With a woman?

- Of course.

- Thank you.

- Okay.

(swelling classical music)

- At dawn the boats return.

Tonight they didn't go fishing

but their nights work was just as hard

even though well paid.

For the young Capri fisherman, it was a normal business deal

a job just like any other, not worth bragging about

to his friends at the bar.

But for her, it's a different matter.

Something of this night on the sea will remain.

In time, she will idealize the boy from Capri.

She'll think of him as handsome, strong,

and above all less commercial.

(swelling classical music)

As she recounts her adventure to her friends,

what was little more than a casual encounter

will lose much of its brutality

and become a wonderful night of love

beneath the starlight sky

of the most beautiful island in the world.

(shouting)

This too is a safety barrel for modern man.

Here after a week of self control,

personal discipline, inhibitions, and repressions,

men and women finally abandon themselves

to their instincts and give free reign

to the charge of physical and nervous energy

accumulated during the rest of the week.

But even the passion of the sport,

like all man's other pastimes

moves aside and bows low before agreements

of greater weight and substance.

(crowd shouting)

(upbeat fanfare)

Ah yes, the eye demands its share, too.

(energetic fanfare music)

(energetic fanfare music)

(speaking foreign language)

There you have it.

As they say in Italian, Mondo Bolardo.

It's really a crazy world.

Sincerely, Boris Karloff.

(singing in Italian) (upbeat music)