Abstract
The beginnings of Argentine cinema date back to 1897, when representatives of the Lumière brothers screened their early moving pictures to audiences in the capital, Buenos Aires. Before long a local industry began to develop, but it was profoundly male-dominated and records reveal that only two women made silent films, Emilia Saleny (La niña del bosque/The Girl from the Wood, and Clarita, both made in 1919); and María Celestini (Mi derecho/My Right, 1920). Unfortunately, there are no surviving prints of any of these films.
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Craig, L., Sentíes, F.P. (2015). Argentina. In: Nelmes, J., Selbo, J. (eds) Women Screenwriters. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137312372_49
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