Vittorio Emanuele Bravetta’s book Tranquillino dopo la guerra vuol creare il mondo… nuovo (1916), which inspired Umanità (1920). An article in the publication Film on Septemsays that the main purpose of Liana Film was to “produce movies for children, with children themselves as leading characters” (21). The film was financed by Liana Film, a new production house that Giallanella named after her little niece. Elvira drew inspiration for her work from this book and created a completely original film, radically different from other contemporary productions. In the same year (1919), Giallanella started to film her motion picture, Umanità. Giallanella’s choice to look after her niece since 1916 put her in closer touch with the world of children’s tales, and in particular she became familiar with the nursery rhyme book Tranquillino dopo la guerra vuol creare il mondo… nuovo, which had been published in 1916, written by Vittorio Emanuele Bravetta and illustrated by Golia. Notably, in those years the rising star Ileana Leonidoff was acting in Verafilm productions she later became a very famous dancer with an enterprise staging Russian ballets, the “Russian Ballets Leonidoff,” in which Molinari also was involved as a stage designer. In January 1919, together with her business partner, Molinari, Giallanella sought permission to build a cinematographic studio in Rome, probably in an attempt to boost their turnover capacity.
During World War I, like most film distributors in Italy, Giallanella sponsored some war documentaries according to a 1917 article in Film (3-5). Between 19 Giallanella’s name appears in all the main Italian newspaper cinema reviews, especially in the listings of upcoming films.
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