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Cinema Of Haiti
The historiography of Haitian cinema is very limited. It consists only one double issue of the journal of the French Institute of Haiti ''Conjonction'', released in 1983, devoted to film; a book by Arnold Antonin, published during the same year, entitled ''Matériel pour une préhistoire du cinéma haïtien'' ("Material for a prehistory of Haitian cinema"); and an article by the same author in the 1981 book ''Cinéma de l’Amérique latine'' (''Cinema of Latin America'') by Guy Hennebel and Alfonso Gumucio Dagrón. Cinema appeared in Haiti at almost the same time as in other countries. On December 14, 1899, Joseph Filippi, a representative of the Lumiere cinema, made the first public screening at the Petit Séminaire while visiting the island. The next day he filmed a fire in Port-au-Prince. There are many films from the period of U.S. occupation (1915–34) in the Library of Congress; these depict Marines and official ceremonies. Other early movies filmed in Haiti, depicting ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Haiti Film Clapperboard
Haiti (; ht, Ayiti ; French: ), officially the Republic of Haiti (); ) and formerly known as Hayti, is a country located on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean Sea, east of Cuba and Jamaica, and south of The Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos Islands. It occupies the western three-eighths of the island which it shares with the Dominican Republic. To its south-west lies the small Navassa Island, which is claimed by Haiti but is disputed as a United States territory under federal administration."Haiti" ''Encyclopædia Britannica''. Haiti is in size, the third largest country in the by area, and has an estimated population of 11.4 million, making it the m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
