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The audio cassette is still very much alive

4/6/2023, 2:45:27 PM


SEEN FROM ELSEWHERE - The old support refuses to leave the stage. Brought up to date by films like Mixed by Erry and TV series like Stranger Things, it is still in circulation. Thanks to two production companies, one American and the other Milanese, founded by two...

By Aldo Fontanarosa (La Repubblica)

September 2021. The production company Groenlandia is hard at work on the film which will be a hit at the box office in 2023. They begin production on Mixed by Erry, a film which will bring in 832,000 euros in its first week alone. -end in theaters, last February.

But a film remains a film.

It is a complex work, a mosaic of several elements, including scenic elements.

And the production company Greenlandia realizes — two years ago — that it has a problem, a big problem.

It does not have the audio cassettes necessary to visually represent the story of the three brothers from the Neapolitan district of Forcella who built an economic empire through music piracy (the story dates back to 1976).

And now - wonders the film production - where are we going to find hundreds of audio cassettes?

Where do you find things that no longer exist?

The answer is simple.

The tape…

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