Catalog on Cuban Cinema at Havana’s Film Festival

HAVANA , Cuba, Dec 7 (acn) The book Catalog on Cuban Cinema (1897-1960), by author María Eulalia Douglas, was presented on Sunday at Havana’s Hotel Nacional, as part of activities of the 30th International Festival of the New Latin American Cinema.

The textbook provides information on Cuba’s cinematography prior to the creation of the Cuban Film Institute (ICAIC), and divides production in those years into two stages: silent movies and the talkies.

The author made a deep study into dates, producers, actors and actresses of different periods, and included additional notes on historic events, which turn this volume into a reference book on the history of Cuban cinema.

Experts of the Seventh Art agree that the catalog is the most complete work on Cuban film production before the 1959 triumph of the Revolution.

Douglas is the main specialist with the Cuban Film Archives; she has devoted her life to researching into the singularities of the world of moving images in the country, on which she has already published several books, among them La Tienda Negra: El Cine en Cuba de 1897 a 1990, (The Black Shop: Cinema in Cuba from 1897 to 1990), which gave her the National Prize for Cultural Research in 1997.

The catalog was launched here along with other books related to film production, like El Cine Soviético del Principio al Fin (Soviet Cinema from Beginning to End), by Zoia Barash, and Lágrimas en la Lluvia (Tears in the Rain), a selection of works published by critic Rufo Caballero.
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