La tivù di Fellini

Opening Titles: If these young friends of mine intend to use the crumbs, shavings, I hope they have the good sense to present them in the perspective they were intended. They were things to go in "Ginger and Fred", breaking the narration as a polemic to the indecent habit of gorging films with commercials. In preparing a film about television, these tiny tales were meant to be the cracks of a whip. I'd prepared them in excess: I couldn't use them all. I had completely forgotten about them. Now you've found them. Use me like an Etruscan tomb: pick and choose. Do your will: I entrust them to you. - Federico Fellini, on a table at the Canova Cafe. Rome, July 11, 1992.