The Pisorno Film Studio
2 min readNov 23, 2022
The coastal strip between Pisa and Livorno had already been discovered by Hollywood in the 1920s, so much so that in the 25th some scenes of a silent Ben Hur were filmed at the Molo Novo.
In 1933 the Autonomous Tirrenia body built the Tirrenia Film factories based on a project by Antonio Valente. The following year, Giovacchino Forzano took over the structure, which stands in a swamp of reptiles and mosquitoes, where…