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Studio Bozzetto - Studio Bozzetto - Allegro non troppo - Bolero, 1976. tempera on cel 35 x 25 cm Original cel on reproduced background for Maurice Ravel's ”Bolero, ” the main and most famous animated episode from ”Allegro non troppo, ” a film produced and directed by Bruno Bozzetto in 1976. Also known as ”March of the Dinosaurs, ” ”Bolero” is the episode around which the entire film developed, the most complex from a technical standpoint (it took two years to make), and the most beloved by Bozzetto himself. From the liquid in a Coca-Cola abandoned by a spaceship, the evolution of life begins. From a primordial soup, creatures evolve and, in true Darwinian style, try to eat each other, thus arriving at birds, snakes, dinosaurs, monkeys, and humans. Dimensions 35 x 25 cm