RAI
RAI (Radiotelevisione Italiana S.p.A.) is the Italian national public broadcasting service and one of Europe’s largest media organizations. Its archive is a primary content source for One Small Crawl.
Facts
- full name: Radiotelevisione Italiana (Italian Radio-Television)
- type: state-owned public service broadcaster
- founded: 1954 (successor to URI/EIAR radio services dating from 1924)
- HQ: Rome, Italy
- services: national TV networks (Rai 1, Rai 2, Rai 3), radio, news, docs
- archive: one of Europe’s largest audiovisual collections (news, docs, entertainment); RAI Teche division
Role in FRAMES and One Small Crawl
- FRAMES project Champion and co-proposer (with ebu and movielabs). One Small Crawl is an IBC Accelerator 2026 proof-of-concept inside the FRAMES consortium (one-small-crawl).
- RAI archive supplies the archival footage the film reuses (archive-footage-reuse): Route 66 documentaries (Kilimangiaro, TG2 Si Viaggiare) and the Tg3 Artemis II news item (artemis-ii, artemis-ii-tg3-news).
Crew on One Small Crawl (RAI)
Four of the human crew are RAI staff (rai.it accounts; see team):
- roberto-iacoviello - supervisor; named lead AI artist in the call role list; cross-cutting coordinator owning the most action items; leads archive-metadata collection, rights and script review; opens the IBC 2026 showcase presentation.
- gabriele-monteleone - supervisor; named DP (director of photography); owns 3D/unreal blocking and character assets. Matches the on-disk collaboration alias “gabri” (RAI OneDrive tree).
- alberto-ciprian - artist (supervisor role); snail character design, loraing and the era environments; develops the snail + archive compositing workflow.
- davide-zappia - supervisor; runs the archive-metadata extraction workflow (frame-level vs sampled analysis).
References (web)
- show.ibc.org - “FRAMES: Federated Retrieval, Agentic Media Environment…”
- IBC2026 Accelerator press release (champion list)
- rai.it corporate information