Centenary of the first filmations in Camagüey

A century is achieved in the actual month of the first filmations in the province of Camagüey of two shorts made by Enrique Díaz Quesada, considered the father of the cuban cinematography.

Titled “panoramic Camagüey” and “The parties in the city of Camagüey”, were materializad with hours of difference, and in both the director did also the fuctions of camarographer and productor.

The investigator and proffesor Armando Pérez Padrón, specialist of Provincial Center of the Movie, expressed to AIN that the originals, of which there is not copy, desappeared in Habana in 1922 in a destructor fireof the work of the movie man , except the film “The parkof Palatino”.

He addthat the movie man arrived to Camagüey convocated por la propietary enterprise of the local trainsto finish the filmations work around that mean of transport, but the el road didn`t made to cause of the posterior negative of the entity to execute the deal.

The first of the films aborded scens of the urban citadine arounds, and the other one of the editions of the fair that was cwlwbrated with its central area in the Square of the Charity.

Enrique Díaz Quesada (1883-1923) was, in the history of the cuban movie, the pioneer maker of the fiction silents films, of the most far antecesor of the information spaces with images, and of 17 of the 40 fiction films of the del period 1907-22, according to the digital version digital of the magazine Somos Jóvenes.
Enrique Diaz Quesada.