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In article <vg859m$e2n7$1@dont-email.me>, evelynchimelisleeper@gmail.com
(Evelyn C. Leeper) wrote:

> 
> In 1936 Mussolini had built Cinecitta Studios, blatantly Roman in
> style, complete with Roman-style mosaics with modern Italian
> images.  He was able to provide 32,000 extras and 40 actual
> elephants, providing the only example of a charge of live
> elephants in film.

I spent a couple of weeks about ten years ago doing train travel around
Italy.  The main railway station in Milan dates from the thirties and
looks exactly like what you'd expect an ancient Roman railway station to
look like.