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| 1897 | ||||
| 24/1 - | The first public screening is given at 6.30pm in the old Tacon Theatre on Prado Street in Havana. [MORE] | |||
| 1908 | ||||
| – The country’s first fiction film, El Cabildo de Romualda, directed by Enrique Diaz Quesada, is released. [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
| 1926 | ||||
| Oct - | The government produces a documentary film using the Phonofilm sound-on-disc system. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
| 1930 | ||||
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– El Caballero de Max, reputed to be Cuba’s first sound film (although some sources dispute this), is released. It is directed by Jaime san-Andrews. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 1937 | ||||
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– Max Tosquella and Ernesto Caparrós’ La serpiente roja, Cuba’s first feature-length sound film, is released. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 1956 | ||||
| – Tomás Gutiérrez Alea’s El Megano is banned by the Batista regime for being subversive [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
| 1959 | ||||
| – In the days following the Castro revolution, the new government establishes a cinematographic department as part of the "Dirección de Cultura del Ejército Rebelde". [MUCH] [ADD] | ||||
| 1960 | ||||
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– The ICAIC sponsored ‘Cuban Cine’ magazine is founded. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| Cuba 1960: Other Films of Note | ||||
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Historias de la Revolucion (Tomas Gutierrez Alea) [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 1961 | ||||
| 1/12 - | At an inauguration of the Cuban Film Archives in Havana, President Fidel Castro announces a plan to aid the country’s cinema industry. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
| 1962 | ||||
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The "Instituto Cubano del Arte y la Industria Cinematográficos" (ICAIC) begins a ‘Mobile cinema’ program to bring films to the rural population. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| Cuba 1962: Other Films of Note | ||||
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Las doce sillas (Tomás Gutiérrez Alea) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Le Soupirant (The Suitor) (Pierre Etaix) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Thérèse Desqueyroux (Georges Franju) [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 1966 | ||||
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La Muerte de un burócrata (Death of a Bureaucrat) (Tomás Gutiérrez Alea) [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 1967 | ||||
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Santiago Álvarez films Hanoi, Martes 13 (Hanoi, Tuesday 13th), the story of what happens to the North Vietnamese people during the course of that day. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| Cuba 1967: Other Films of Note | ||||
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Las aventuras de Juan Quin Quin (Julio Garcia Espinosa) [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 1968 | ||||
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– The first Festival of New Latin American Cinema is staged in Havana. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| Cuba 1968: Other Films of Note | ||||
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Lucía (Humberto Solás) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Memorias del subdesarrollo (Memories of Underdevelopment) (Tomás Gutiérrez Alea) [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 1969 | ||||
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La Primera carga al machete (Manuel Octavio Gómez) [MORE] [ADD] |