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| 1896 | ||||
| 18/7 - | Lumiere’s Cinematographe premieres in Buenos Aires at the Teatro Odeon, 367 Emerald Street. [MORE] | |||
| 1897 | ||||
| – Eugene Py shoots La Bandera Argentina (The Argentine Flag), the country’s first film. [MORE] | ||||
| 1898 | ||||
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– Surgical pioneer Dr. Alejandro Posada becomes the first surgeon to have his work recorded on film. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 1908 | ||||
| 24/5 - | The country’s first fiction film, El Fusilamiento de Dorrego, directed by Italian Mario Gallo, is screened in Buenos Aires. | |||
| 1910 | ||||
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| 22/5 - | La Revolucion de Mayo, Argentina's first fiction film using professional actors, is released [MORE] | |||
| 1915 | ||||
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– Humberto Cairo and Ernesto Gunche make Nobleza Gaucha, the country’s first feature-length film. The 20,000 pesos budget film earns 600,000 pesos in six months. |
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| 1917 | ||||
| - El Apostol, the world's first animated feature film, is released. Written and directed by Quirino Cristiani, all copies of the film are destroyed by a fire in producer Federico Valle's vaults in 1926. [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
| 1929 | ||||
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– Corazon ante la ley, directed by Nelo Cosimi, is released. It is Argentina’s first sound film. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 1931 | ||||
| Argentina’s first talking picture, Jose A. Ferreyra’s Munequitas Portenas, is released. [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
| 1933 | ||||
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| 27/4 - | Tango is the first film release from Angel Mentasti and Luis Moglia Barth’s Argentina Sono Film S.A.C.I. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
| 1938 | ||||
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– There are 29 film production companies making films in Argentina in 1938. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Argentina 1938: Other Films of Note |
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La Vuelto al nido (Leopoldo Torres Rios) [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 1939 | ||||
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– Manuel Romero’s musical La Vida es un tango is released. [MORE] [ADD] |
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– Mario Soffici’s torrid melodrama, Prisioneros de la Tierra, is released. Francisco Petrone and Angel Magana star. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 1942 | ||||
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La Guerra Gaucha (Lucas Demare) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Safo (Carlos Hugo Christensen) [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 1944 | ||||
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– Increasing State intervention in the film industry eventually results in censorship, blacklists, and favouritism with regard to the distribution of raw film stock. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Argentina 1944: Other Films of Note |
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Su major alumno (Lucas Demare) [MORE] [ADD] |
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El Angel desnudo (Carlos Hugo Christensen) [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 1950 | ||||
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El Crimen de Oribe (Oribe's Crime), Leopoldo Torre Nilsson's first feature film, is released. [MORE] [ADD] |
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