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Follow Matteo Valenti's Special Vehicles on Instagram: matteovalenti_mezzispeciali: https://www.instagram.com/matteovalen... automoto_it: https://www.instagram.com/automoto_it... There are everyday objects that we actually know nothing about. Take the license plates of cars, motorcycles, trucks, heavy vehicles and special vehicles. Every day our eyes, perhaps unconsciously, are forced to see and metabolize dozens of them. Sometimes hundreds. We all know what vehicle license plates are and what they are for. We know how to distinguish and recognize them. But no one, or almost no one, knows what they are really made of, where they come from and how they are made. Hence the idea of making a real documentary on these objects that are so widespread but about which, at the same time, we still know little or nothing. And if Willy Wonka took you to the chocolate factory, today we will take you to an even more exclusive, secret and impenetrable place: the State Printing Office. In the historic Foggia plant, in addition to license plates, they also print electronic identity cards for all Italians and watermarked paper for 50 euro banknotes. High-quality and sophisticatedly advanced products, whose secrets must be protected at all costs. The security measures are extremely high. Even for our crew who, before crossing the threshold of the factory, must pass through checkpoints with armed guards, redundant gates protected by a host of cameras and coils of barbed wire, but also an unspecified number of anti-intrusion doors, metal detectors and screening, mandatory for people and equipment. In short, it took us more than an hour just to access the plant and all this made us feel as if we were about to penetrate something similar to Area 51 or the Pentagon. But it was worth it, given that no one, at least until today, had ever managed to show you such exclusive and detailed images of the license plate manufacturing process. After all, cameras had never entered here, at least not for so long. And so, at this point, we can only wish you good viewing. ---- This video is dedicated to all the women and men of the Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato without whom it would never have been possible to make such a documentary. We thank the Puglia Region for the warm welcome and the Petrucci Family of Oppido Lucano for their kind hospitality. Filming and Editing: Camilla Pellegatta Author: Matteo Valenti ---