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Italian neorealism left the studio behind

Films were shot in real streets with non-professional actors After the Second World War, directors such as Roberto Rossellini and Vittorio De Sica filmed in real cities and housing estates, often with people who had never acted, and used available light and post-synchronised sound. Bicycle Thieves (1948) is the best-known example. The movement was short-lived but influenced filmmaking worldwide. It sits in Mondo's movies & tv collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.

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Where does this come from, and can I check it?: Films were shot in real streets with non-professional actors. The figure is taken from BFI, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
Is this really a movies & tv fact?: Yes. It sits on the Movies & TV shelf, one of 2,600 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
What else can I read about it?: The links under the fact point to a quiz, game, puzzle or calculator on the same subject, and the shelf below shows related facts. The wording here is original, and quoted phrases are marked as quotations.