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![]() ![]() Puerto Rico was the second Latin American market to produce a sound film, filming Luis Pales Matos's script for Romance Tropical (1934). Other film companies formed during the time were the Tropical Film Company (1917) and the Porto Rico Photoplays (1919). ![]() After that, Colorado and Antonio Capella MartÃnez created the Film Industrial Society of Puerto Rico in 1916, producing their first film titled Por la hembra y el gallo. It wasn't until 1912 that Rafael Colorado D'Assoy recorded the first non- documentary film titled Un drama en Puerto Rico. After the early images recorded by the American soldiers in 1898, most of the films produced in the island were documentaries. By 1912, Puerto Ricans would begin to produce their own films. ![]() During the US invasion of the island in 1898, American soldiers brought cameras to record what they saw. The history of the Cinema industry in Puerto Rico predates Hollywood, being conceived after the first industries emerged in some locations of the United States, Switzerland, Denmark, Italy, France, Great Britain and Germany. Romance Tropical is the first Puerto Rican film with sound and the second Spanish-speaking film in the world.
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