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OPEN CLASSIC CINEMA · 886

La Revolución de Mayo

19105 minArgentina

Synopsis

Staged historical scenes return to the events of the May Revolution, presenting the political break with Spanish authority as a subject for Argentine cinema. Performers recreate the public moment rather than documenting a contemporary gathering. The brief production belongs to an effort to make national history visible on screen during the independence centennial.

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Video edition: Wikimedia Commons
Original language: No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified.
This copy runs: 4:43
Subtitles: No subtitle track in this language

No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. No subtitle track in this language.

Languages and subtitles

No subtitle track in this language

Wikimedia Commons · Mario Gallo (1878-1945) · Public domain

Cast

Mario Gallo

DirectorsMario Gallo

Historical context

Mario Gallo made the film in 1909 for exhibition around the 1910 centennial. Its use of professional actors forms part of the emergence of Argentine fiction filmmaking alongside earlier nonfiction views.

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Work catalogued as public domain in the United States.

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Mario Gallo — Unknown photographer Unknown photographer; http://3.bp.blogspot.com · Public domain

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