For the First Time
MovieTitle | Por primera vez |
User score | 7.2 |
Release date | Nov 20, 1969 |
Genre | Documentary |
Director | Octavio Cortázar |
Production country | Cuba |
Production companies | Lombarda Industria Cinematografica, ICAIC, Instituto Cubano del Arte e Industrias Cinematográficos (ICAIC) |
Run time | 9 min. |
In 1967, Cuban documentary filmmaker Octavio Cortazar followed a projectionist whose mission was to show moving pictures to rural communities for the first time. Cortazar’s short film documents one audience’s response to its first film: Charlie Chaplin’s Modern Times.