The third part of the intriguing glimpse back more than 50 years into the daily life of the Barga from the DVD -- “Barga 1957 to 1960” and the contents are exactly that, an hour-long look at just what it was like to live in the city at the end of the 1950s and the start of the 1960s.
This third section features many of the Barghigiani going about their daily business in the city.
The DVD was the work of Pietro Tonacci who has painstakingly edited and compiled many of the films shot in Barga using an eight millimetre camera by his father, Alessio.
Alessio Tonacci left Barga in the late 40′s, emigrating to the USA but returned for annual holidays a decade later and each time he arrived he would film his home town to take back to show his friends and relations in the states.
Unfortunately there was no sound track on the film as this was before the age of super eight technology but in conversation with Pietro it turns out that there were in fact recordings made at the same time using a reel to reel tape recorder and he is working diligently at the moment, when time permitting, to transfer those voices and sounds onto a digital medium.
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Nei giorni scorsi dagli Stati Uniti è rientrato per la consueta vacanza a Barga Pietro Tonacci. Stavolta ci ha fatto un bel regalo: un dvd che raccoglie i filmati realizzati dal babbo Alessio a Barga nell’anno 1957.
Si tratta di una documentazione eccezionale; che non ha precedenti per rievocare la storia della “vecchia Barga”. Fino ad ora l’unica memoria visiva era quella fotografica e scritta; adesso, per la prima volta, grazie alle riprese realizzate allora da uno dei nostri emigranti rientrato per le vacanze estive a Barga dagli U.S.A., è possibile vedere sullo schermo -- in esclusiva su barganews.com -- quello che era Barga, la sua gente, le sue vie, le sue strade, i cambiamenti che ci sono stati da allora ad oggi. Rivivere, tornando indietro nel tempo, quei giorni del 1957.