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First appearance of the cinema in the Dominican country
When the Teatro Curiel of the northern city of Puerto Plata offers an exhibition of the Cinematograph Lumière -
Creation of New Cinemas
It opens a new cinema in the capital, in the courtyard of the Casino of the youth, and in the open air, the cinema Landolfi that exhibited on the weekends and then increased to three sessions weekly. -
The first national distribution company is created
The Cibao Film company, based in Puerto Plata, owned by the brothers Carlos and José Geneva. -
first film shot in the Dominican Republic by a foreigner.
Puerto Rican cameraman Rafael Colorado filmed Jose de Diego to Santo Domingo excursion -
First film recorded in Dominican territory
Although the production of this was not Dominican, it was "excursion of José de Diego to Santo Domingo" by the Puerto Rican filmmaker Rafael Colorado. This story based on the life of Jose de Diego (1866-1918). -
The first Dominican fiction film
In the history of the silent Dominican Cinema, the works of the photographer and editor Francisco Palau, that together with Juan B. Alfonseca, the photographer Tuto Báez and the collaboration in the texts of the historian Bernardo Pichardo, carried out in the first fiction film Dominican -
First official Dominican movie
The Legend of the Virgin of Altagracia -
First Dominican comedy
las emboscadas de cupido -
trujillo
The first use of sound was a news film about the inauguration of President Rafael Leonidas Trujillo in 1930. -
Film premiere of the Franklin Domínguez Chair
