The first public film exhibition was by Francisco Pastos and Eustaquio
Pellier at the Colon Theater in Buenos Aires on July 28, 1896 using
a Lumiere projector and films.
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The first film produced in Argentina was La Bandera Argentina in 1897.
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The first feature film over 1 hour was Nobleza Gaucha in 1915.
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The first 'talkie' was La Munequitas Portenas in 1931 using the Vitaphone system.
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Other Firsts
The first fiction movie with professional actors,
La revolucion de mayo (May Revolution), in 1910;
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The first feature-length film, Amalia, in 1914;
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The first big success, Nobleza Gaucha (Gaucho Nobleness; with a cost
of 25,000 pesos and box office collections for half a million in six
months, aside from bootleg copies) in 1915;
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The first animation feature-length movie in the world, El apostol
(The Apostle), in 1917;
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The first woman director in Latin America, in 1917.
