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In 1930, the married couple Guido Martina and Tina Cordero founded the society Futurista Film and became acquainted with the aero-painter Pippo Oriani, author of a screenplay also published in a critical edition by Cineteca Nazionale (Verdone 1996). However, in the film's opening titles, the screenplay is ascribed to Cordero and Martina, whereas Oriani is credited only as scenographer and co-director.

The manifesto of Futurista Film was published in the Parisian review Comœdia on 5 March 1931 with the title Avant-garde integrale: Marinetti et le film futuriste: here the precepts of Futurist cinema are declared, according to a line that continues from the manifesto La cinematografia futurista dated 1916. In their manifesto, Cordero and Martina explain the programmatic objective of not providing a screenplay for the film; this discredits the hypothesis of an out-and-out screenplay foregoing the film. The innovations in the film make it a rare example of ‘integral avant-garde’; to cite the definition given by its authors in Comœdia: the inventive experiments on the use of the device found a perspective of intermediality, until the first radical experiment of ‘cinematographic aero-painting’, the cinematographic implementation of the lively Futurist dynamism.