For the First Time (1967)
- Original title
- Por primera vez
- Directed by
- Octavio Cortázar
- Genre
- documentary film
- Country
- Cuba
- Runtime
- 9 min
- Rating
- 7.4 of 10 from 13 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
It is a short documentary about a mobile cinema truck that brings movies to a remote village in Cuba. The villagers watch moving pictures for the first time.
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What happens
For the First Time (Spanish: Por Primera Vez) is a 1967 Cuban documentary short film directed by Octavio Cortazar. It chronicles the events of April 12, 1967 in the village of Los Munos, in the Baracoa municipality of Cuba, where a mobile cinema truck shows the villagers moving pictures for the first time. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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