El fusilamiento de Dorrego explained
El fusilamiento de Dorrego (The Execution of Dorrego) is a 1908 Argentine film written and directed by Mario Gallo and starring,, and . It depicts the 1828 death of statesman Manuel Dorrego, played by Rosich.[2]
It is considered to be a lost film.[3] [4]
Production
The director Mario Gallo, an Italian who had arrived in Argentina in 1905, began shooting the country's first fiction films in 1908. The traditional account, endorsed by film researcher and historian Pablo C. Ducrós Hicken, is that El fusilamiento de Dorrego was released on 24 May 1908.[5] Other researchers date its filming two years later, which would make 1909's La Revolución de Mayo the first.[2] [6] [7]
Filming took place on the terrace of the Teatro Nuevo and in the Palermo Woods of Buenos Aires.[3] [8]
Legacy
Some scholars see in Gallo's film work the influence of, which since 1908 had been France's first approach to cinema as art, moving it away from the mere spectacle of the fairground. This had its first expression in The Assassination of the Duke of Guise, a film that also had the distinction of being the first to feature original music.[7]
Pablo C. Ducrós Hicken, who viewed El fusilamiento de Dorrego in the 1920s, compared it favorably with contemporary Pathé films, and described it as "well composed".[9] [10] However, some other accounts mention audience members laughing at inconsistencies such as cars passing by in the background of a scene ostensibly set in the 1820s.[3]
Notes and References
- Construcción del espacio propio y el primitivo Cine Argentino (1826–1930) . Construction of the Proper Space and the Primitive Argentine Cinema (1826–1930) . Raponi . Graciela . Boselli . Alberto . Taquini . Graciela . Seminario de Critica . . 12 . 16–17 . Spanish . September 1989 . 20 December 2017.
- Book: La época de oro: historia del cine argentino . The Golden Age: History of Argentine Film . Ediciones del Jilguero . 9789879578650 . 12–13 . 1998 . 20 December 2017 . Google Books.
- Cine nacional e identidad: Los primeros pasos . National Cinema and Identity: The First Steps . Creación y Producción en Diseño y Comunicación . . Buenos Aires . 1 . 1668-5229 . 17–19 . Spanish . August 2004 . 20 December 2017.
- Book: Cuarterolo, Andrea . De la foto al fotograma . From the Photo to the Frame . 2.4 El arte de instruir deleitando. Discurso nacionalista y cine de ficción . 134 . Spanish . 31 May 2013 . 20 December 2017 . issuu.
- Web site: La ficción y los personajes . Fiction and Characters . Historia del Cine Argentino . Spanish . 20 December 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20131012130606/http://webs.satlink.com/usuarios/c/cinema/h3.htm . 12 October 2013 . dead .
- News: Aniversario porteño pero en inglés . Buenos Aires Anniversary But in English . España . Claudio . . Spanish . 6 July 1996 . https://archive.today/20121229-231051/http://www.lanacion.com.ar/175664-aniversario-porteno-pero-en-ingles . 2012-12-29 . dead . 2024-02-29.
- Web site: Congreso FIAF: Nueva vida para primer film argumental argentino . FIAF Congress: New Life for First Argentine Fiction Film . De Vita . Pablo . elcine.ws . Spanish . https://web.archive.org/web/20090612195055/http://www.elcine.ws/sitio/content/view/733/49/ . 12 June 2009 . dead . 20 December 2017.
- Book: Vázquez Rial, Horacio . https://books.google.com/books?id=CkFmaWW4zAIC&pg=PA381 . Buenos Aires, 1880–1930: la capital de un imperio imaginario . Buenos Aires, 1880–1930: The Capital of an Imaginary Empire . Los porteños y el cine . . 9788420694726 . 381 . 1996 . 20 December 2017 . Google Books.
- News: Primeros tiempos del cine argentino . Early Days of Argentine Cinema . Ducrós Hicken . Pablo C. . . Spanish . 5 April 1942 . 20 December 2017.
- Book: Cuarterolo, Andrea . De la foto al fotograma . From the Photo to the Frame . 1.2.1 El color como atracción . 56 . Spanish . 31 May 2013 . 20 December 2017 . issuu.
