Le cinéma à Séville à travers la presse locale (1914-1918)

Abstract

Cinema in Seville through the local press (1914-1918): The flourishing cinema in Seville between 1914 and 1918, as in a number of capitals of Spanish provinces, in a country who had chosen to be neutral during World War I, remains a mass entertainment, a popular spectacle – mainly urban –, which evolves rapidly between art and industry, both from a technical and a commercial point of view and thus also from an aesthetic view. The local press comments on it very largely, half-way between publicity and the premises of a real criticism. The 20s will witness the arrival of talking and full-length films, two innovations that will modify deeply both the way to make films and to watch films. Cinema will thence be called the “7^th art”.