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¡Tango! is a 1933 Argentine musical romance film, the first film to be made in Argentina using optical sound technology Many existing stars of the Argentine stage and radio appeared in the film, but i
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The Golden Age of Argentine cinema, sometimes known interchangeably as the broader classical or classical-industrial period, is an era in the history of the cinema of Argentina that began in the 1930s
¡Tango!
…established a formula that would be used by many subsequent tango films. Along with Los tres berretines, which premiered the same year, it inaugurated the Golden Age of Argentine cinema. ¡Tango! follows a formula established by Carlos Gardel with films such as Luces de Buenos Aires (The Lights of Buenos Aires, 1931) in which a melodramatic…
View of the shooting of Manuel Romero's La rubia del camino (1938) at Lumiton studios.
French immigrant Eugenio Py is generally considered to have made the first films of the country in the 1890s.
A frame from Mario Gallo's La Revolución de Mayo (1909), regarded as the first narrative film of the country.
The unprecedented commercial success of Nobleza gaucha (1915) inaugurated a new boom period for Argentine silent cinema.