![]() ![]() In 1945, Fellini pitched the idea for an animated short that would accompany Rossellini’s latest production, Rome Open City. Not too long after, Fellini’s friendship with Roberto Rossellini started opening doors for the aspiring filmmaker. soldiers, Ramponi was happy to take part in the enterprise. ![]() For a couple of years Ramponi had been chumming around with fellow cartoonist Federico Fellini (seen below), and when the future filmmaker hatched a plan to open the Funny Face Shop to sell caricatures to the occupying U.S. It wasn’t long, however, before he found himself collaborating with another young cartoonist looking for a way to ply their shared trade in the upended capital city. The Allies liberated Italy, but not before bombing the animation facilities in which Ramponi worked, leaving the young Roman artist without a steady job.
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