{{Short description|1960 British short film by James Hill}} {{for|the given name|Giuseppina (given name)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2020}} {{Infobox film | name = Giuseppina | image = Giuseppina_film_Opening_titles_(1960).png | caption = Opening titles | director = James Hill | producer = {{plainlist| *James Hill *Massimo Saraceni}} | writer = James Hill | starring = {{plainlist| *Antonia Scalari *Giulio Marchetti}} | music = {{plainlist| *Jack Beaver *Ray Beaver}} | cinematography = Václav Vích | editing = Vivienne Collins | studio = Schoenfeld Films | distributor = BP | released = {{film date|df=yes|1960}} | runtime = 28 minutes | country = United Kingdom<br />Italy | language = Italian }}
'''''Giuseppina''''' is a 1960 short British documentary film produced by James Hill.<ref name="BFIsearch">{{Cite web |title=Giuseppina |url=https://collections-search.bfi.org.uk/web/Details/ChoiceFilmWorks/150028550 |access-date=12 August 2024 |website=British Film Institute Collections Search}}</ref> It was filmed in 1959, in Mandriole, Emilia-Romagna, near Ravenna in the north east of Italy. It won the Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject).<ref name="NY Times">{{cite web |url=https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/151737/Giuseppina/details |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110520033829/https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/151737/Giuseppina/details |archive-date=20 May 2011 |department=Movies & TV Dept. |work=The New York Times |publisher=Baseline & All Movie Guide |date=2011 |title=New York Times: Giuseppina |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="Oscars1961">{{Cite web |url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1961 |title=The 33rd Academy Awards (1961) Nominees and Winners |access-date=26 May 2019 |work=oscars.org}}</ref> Production of the film was sponsored by BP, which also distributed the film.<ref>{{cite web |title=Giuseppina (1959) |url=http://www.bpvideolibrary.com/tape_details.asp?id=30499&page=1&p_desc=Giuseppina&and_or=AND&sio=true&sort_by=desc&sd=ASC&st= |work=BP Video Library |access-date=18 June 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110708090317/http://www.bpvideolibrary.com/tape_details.asp?id=30499&page=1&p_desc=Giuseppina&and_or=AND&sio=true&sort_by=desc&sd=ASC&st= |archive-date=8 July 2011}}</ref> The BP webpage summarizes the film as, "set at an Italian petrol station where various characters pass through on their onward journey, while entertaining and playing with the attendant's daughter, Giuseppina."
In the 1960s and early 1970s, ''Giuseppina'' was broadcast 185 times on British television as a trade test colour film.<ref>Keys, Andrew (2007). [https://web.archive.org/web/20080905125300/http://www.testcardcircle.org.uk/ttcfstatistics.html "The Statistician's Guide to Trade Test Colour Films"], webpage of the "Test Card Circle" website archived at WebCite from [http://www.testcardcircle.org.uk/ttcfstatistics.html this original URL] 18 June 2008.</ref> Excerpts were also shown on ''Vision On'', the BBC programme for deaf and hard-of-hearing children. It was released as an extra on the BFI Flipside DVD release of "Lunch Hour".
==Cast== * Antonia Scalari as Giuseppina * Giulio Marchetti as Rossi
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *Watch [https://www.bpvideolibrary.com/record/466 ''Giuseppina''] at BP Video Library *{{IMDb title|id=0053866|title=Giuseppina}} *[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIbQSLI6FjE Giuseppina] on YouTube
{{James Hill}} {{Academy Award Best Documentary Short}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Giuseppina}} Category:1960 films Category:1960 short documentary films Category:BP Category:British short documentary films Category:Best Documentary Short Subject Academy Award winners Category:Sponsored films Category:Films directed by James Hill (British director) Category:Films scored by Jack Beaver Category:Films set in Italy Category:Documentary films about road transport Category:1960 English-language films Category:1960 British films Category:English-language short documentary films