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The first appearance of cinema in the Dominican Republic
It happened in the northern city of Puerto Plata, where the Curiel theater in this city witnessed the Lumiere brothers' cinematography. The person in charge of the first exhibitions of these works in the whole area, was the industrialist Francesco Grecco who, for that, crossed the Caribbean showing this attractive invention. -
first movie
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 movie
The work of the photographer and editor Francisco Palau, along with the photographer Tuto Báez and Juan B. Alfonseca, makes the Dominican Republic's first fiction film: The Legend of the Virgin of Altagracia, with the collaboration of the Dominican cinema. texts by the historian Bernardo Pichardo.
Palau premiered it on the night of February 16, 1923 -
Cinematic brake
The dictatorial regime installed by Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina, imposes a total restraint on artistic and cultural manifestations, stimulating only what he considers beneficial for his purposes. The first use of sound was a news film about the inauguration of President Rafael Leonidas Trujillo. -
Trujillo seizes Dominican cinema
The filmmaker Rafael Augusto Sánchez Sanlley (Pupito), produced with the company "Cine Dominicano", thirteen documentaries for the regime. And it is not until 1963, that the dramatist Franklin Domínguez launched his feature film La silla, where he denounces the horrors of the Trujillo regime. -
One way ticket
Agliberto Meléndez, founder of the National Cinematheque, and expert in audiovisuals, performs his first film, a one-way ticket, a product that has been constituted as a filmic intention of bets and remedies within what means a Dominican cinema. -
A young man without experience
Without having any work reference in the Dominican film world, a young man with a desire to make films burst onto the national scene with a product that surprised everyone for the grace and courage with which it was assumed. Ángel Muñiz took over the direction of Nueba Yol: Balbuena finally arrived, a film that can be seen as a laudable attempt at a product marketable both in Dominican territory and abroad.
