Cinecitta, the huge movie studio outside Rome, is 50 years old, and as Fellini begins production on his latest film, a Japanese TV crew interviews him about the other films he has made their over the years. A young actor portrays Fellini arriving at Cinecitta the first time by trolley to interview a star. Marcello Mastroianni dressed as Mandrake the Magician floats by a window, and Fellini followed by TV crew takes him to Anita Ekberg's villa where the Trevi fountain scene from La Dolce Vita (1960) is shown on a sheet that appears and disappears as if by magic.