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History of Dominican Cinema

By scarlet rodriguez polanco

  • First film shot in Dominican Republic

    First film shot in Dominican Republic
    En 1915 el camarógrafo puertorriqueño Rafael Colorado filma Excursión de José de Diego a Santo Domingo,

  • 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 appearance of the cinema

    First appearance of the cinema
    Teatro Curiel of the northern city of Puerto Plata offers an exhibition of the Cinematograph Lumière.

  • In charge of the first presentations in the Caribbean

    In charge of the first presentations in the Caribbean
    There is the industrialist Francesco Grecco, who travels throughout the area showing such an attractive invention.