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First appearance of the cinema in the country
An exhibition of the Cinematograph Lumière is offered in Puerto Plata -
Cine Landolfi
A new salon is opened in the capital, in the youth Casino and in the open air -
Puerto Rican cameraman Rafael Colorado
Signature first film shot in Dominican Republic by a foreigner. -
It is known that before the work of Francisco Palau Puerto Rican cameraman Rafael Colorado
The first film made in Dominican Republic, by a foreigner, entitled Excursion of Jose de Diego in Santo Domingo -
Photographer Tuto Báez and Juan B. Alfonseca
make the first film of fiction of Dominican cinema -
Performing a comedy with naive tints with the title of Cupid's ambushes
STA film, counted in five acts, tells the story of a couple of lovers who, not having the consent of the father of the bride, obliges the groom to make a funny plot so that the father can accept it. -
Use for the development of fiction productions.
Genre There are pioneering works such as those of Adam Sánchez Reyes, Salvador Archimedes Sturla and Tuto Báez, who perform some of the most important historical film as the arrival of the American aviator Charles Lindbergh to the country. -
Installation of the regime of President Rafael Leonidas Trujillo
Marked from its beginnings as a dictatorial regime, it imposes a total brake on artistic and cultural manifestations, stimulating only that which is understood as beneficial for its purposes. -
Documentary filmmaker Rafael Augusto Sánchez Sanlley
Who produces with the company "Cinema Dominicana" Thirteen documentaries on request for the state secretaries of the regime, with the direction of the Cuban Pepe Prieto, lives in its own flesh the rigidity of the prevailing political structure. -
Important event in the area of the documentary in the Dominican Republic
They were presented at the Teatro Olimpia, Jimmy saw a documentary about the most significant popular artistic event that occurred at the time of the Government of Dr. Joaquín Balaguer held in 1974 and the journalist José Bujosa Mieses entitled heading to power, a Documentary of the 1978 political campaign that led to the triumph of the Dominican Revolutionary Party.
