IDNO

T.153075.RPT

Description

Portrait of Pippo, a young Sicilian boy, with a goat. Pippo is wearing a brown jumper and shorts and he is smiling and holding the goat by a rope. The goat has a long white and grey coat, and horns. The background is trees and meadow flowers. [IJ 31/01/2023]

Place

S Europe; Italy; Sicily; Mount Etna; near ?Fornazzo [Sicilia]

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Pippo

Photographer

Poignant, Axel

Collector / Expedition

Date

1957 - 1958

Collection Name

Poignant Collection

Source

Poignant, Roslyn

Format

Colour Transparency

Primary Documentation

Other Information

T.152858.RPT - T.153307.RPT were located in the drawer file of transparency sheets, numbered C1022/.

T.153060.RPT - T.153081.RPT were located in a transparency sheet, numbered C1022/11.

Related film: A 30 minute film directed by Axel and Roslyn Poignant about Pippo was shown on BBC Television on 27/09/1959. The radio times listing contained the following information: "A film about a Sicilian boy.
Pippo is the son of a charcoal burner and lives on the slopes of a volcano, Mount Etna. Sometimes the mountain rumbles, and then all the family wonders what will happen. Will it be just another stream of hot lava or will the volcano erupt and overwhelm their village?
Story told by Johnny Morris.
Contributors
Photographed and directed by: Axel Poignant
Photographed and directed by: Roslyn Poignant
Narrator: Johnny Morris." [source: https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/8c40c475d93741718801fa467a31c3b8 KK 20/04/2023]