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The first appearance of cinema in the country dates back to August 1900, when an exhibition of the Lumière cinematography is offered at the Curiel Theater in the northern city of Puerto Plata. In charge of the first presentations in the Caribbean is the industrialist Francesco Grecco, who travels throughout the area showing such an attractive invention.
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In 1915 the Puerto Rican cameraman Rafael Colorado filmed Excursión de José de Diego to Santo Domingo, the first film shot in the Dominican Republic by a foreigner. In the history of silent Dominican cinema, the works of the photographer and editor Francisco Palau stand out
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Cinema highlights the work of photographer and editor Francisco Palau, who in 1922 next to the photographer Tuto Báez and Juan B. Alfonseca, makes the first fiction film of Dominican Cinema: The Legend of the Virgin of Altagracia , with the collaboration in the texts of the historian Bernardo Pichardo.
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Cinema highlights the work of photographer and editor Francisco Palau, who in 1922 next to the photographer Tuto Báez and Juan B. Alfonseca makes the first fictional film of Dominican Cinema: "The Legend of the Virgin of Altagracia" , with the collaboration in the texts of the historian Bernardo Pichardo.
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Palau premiered on the night of February 16th, 1923, and became the first Dominican film.
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The enthusiasm of this team later motive the realization of a comedy with naive tints with the title of "The Ambushes of Cupid" (1924). This film, counted in five acts, narrated the story of a couple of lovers who did not have the consent of the father of the bride, and obliges the groom to make a funny plot so that the father can accept it. It was exhibited to the public on March 19, 1924.
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Of news about the inauguration of President Rafael Leonidas Trujillo in 1930. This dictatorial regime installed by Trujillo since the year 1930 imposes a total brake on artistic and cultural manifestations, stimulating only what it understands beneficial for its purposes. Cinema, which in addition to art is an industry, had been adopted by the mass media in an ideological instrument.
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Only in 1953, the filmmaker Rafael Augusto Sánchez Sanlley (Pupito), produced thirteen documentaries for the regime with the company "Cine Dominicano".
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And it is not until 1963, that playwright Franklin Dominguez released his long film "La Silla", where he denounces the horrors of the regime of Trujillo.
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In 1967 Max Pou and Eduardo Palmer make two documentary works: "The effort of a people y "Nuestra history ".
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It also publishes a book that makes an investigation on the Dominican cinema by Jose Luis Sáez known as "History of an Imported dream, 1982, this work has been extended by the critic Felix Manuel Lora in his book" Identity of an audiovisual framing ", 2005.