Noticiero Latinoamericano 19-03-1969
On the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the creation of the ICAIC (Cuban Institute of Cinematographic Art and Industry),
retrospective on the invention of the cinematograph, a subject illustrated by drawings, engravings, photographs and films. This anniversary is the occasion in Havana of an exhibition of film posters, photographs of personalities from the world of cinema who came to Cuba between 1959 and 1969 (Joris Ivens, Peter Brook, Jean-Luc Godard, Agnès Varda, Francesco Rosi, Chris Marker, Gérard Philipe etc.) and photographs of events filmed by the ICAIC. Since 1959, the cinema professions have been opened to women with the training of Cuban projectionists. New movie theaters are created throughout the country.
A new cinematographic movement appears in Cuba, one of the objectives of which is to capture the "revolution" and the liberation struggles
around the world. The ICAIC's main mission is to bring cinema to the most remote regions of the country. Demonstration in images of: thaumatrope; plateau; phenakistiscope; zoetrope, zoopraxiscope. Recall with the help of engravings of the first public screening by the Lumière brothers; Images from the Lumière brothers' camera and broadcast of two of their first films: "Landing of the Photography Congress in Lyon" and "the arrival of a train in La Ciotat"; scene of three young women trying on clothes; scene from a silent burlesque film. Archives: Eisenstein directing his film "Yvan the Terrible"; Cuba at the beginning of the century (street scene, the first tractor); cave paintings of Altamira.