Vitaphone production reel #1410.
The seven meter high plaster head of Garibaldi by Michele La Spina was made at his studio in Rome. It was intended to be a prototype of a full-length monument carved into a mountain in Liguria - much like Mount Rushmore in the United States. After the artist's death, it was to be given to the National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rome. In 1948 it was destroyed because it would have been too difficult and expensive to move.