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Home cinema in the Dominican Republic
The first appearance of the cinema in the Dominican Republic took place in the northern city of Puerto Plata, where the Curiel theater of this city witnessed the cinematography of the Lumiére brothers. -
The first movie in the country appears
Puerto Rican cameraman Rafael Colorado made José de Diego's Excursion in Santo Domingo, the first film made in the Dominican Republic by a foreigner. -
Fiction is incorporated
In the film prehistory of Dominican cinema highlights the work of photographer and editor Francisco Palau who makes the first fiction film of Dominican cinema: The Legend of the Virgin of Altagracia, with the collaboration of the historian Bernardo Pichardo texts. -
Appearance of sound
The dictatorial regime installed by Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina, since 1930, imposes a total restraint on artistic and cultural manifestations, stimulating only what he considers beneficial for his purposes. The first use of the sound was a news film about the inauguration of President Rafael Leonidas Trujillo in 1930. -
The filmmakers reveal themselves
The dramatist Franklin Domínguez launched his feature film La silla, where he denounces the horrors of the Trujillo regime.
