An investigative journey of more than 120 years of cinema in Paraguay, from the first screening with the Lumière Brothe | dG1feHA4SEsySVM5MTA
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00:31Do you want to know what happened?
00:35That the cinemas disappeared?
00:43That was a new thing, the North American fashion.
00:46No, pororo didn't exist.
00:50And mom suddenly throws us all to the ground.
00:54When she heard a loud noise
00:57she realized it wasn't from the movie she was watching.
01:04I understood that the first movie screening in Paraguay.
01:31In Paraguay there are movies from 1900, the first screening of foreign cinema.
01:35Mario Martínez Cobar.
01:38Now I'm retired.
01:40Before I was a cinema operator.
01:54Rata América, by far, is the most ambitious movie.
01:59It was better organized, better financed,
02:03and with better actors than in the long history of Paraguayan cinema.
02:12To appreciate what Asunción was,
02:15you see scenes with cars from 1950,
02:19you see very beautiful scenes.