Tobis Portuguesa is a Portuguese film production and lab processing company. Establish in June 3, 1932, Tobis produced many of the major works in Portuguese cinema for three decades. .

History

Founded in 1932, Tobis originally focused on

film production Filmmaking (film production) is the process by which a motion picture is produced. Filmmaking involves a number of complex and discrete stages, starting with an initial story, idea, or commission. It then continues through screenwriting, casti ...

and lab processing. it produced many works of the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s, such as ''

A Canção de Lisboa ''A Canção de Lisboa'' (lit. ''The Song of Lisbon'') is a 1933 Portuguese musical comedy film, directed by José Cottinelli Telmo, and starring Vasco Santana, Beatriz Costa, António Silva, Alfredo Silva, Ana Maria, Artur Rodrigues, Coralia E ...

''. In 1955, Tobis merged with Lisboa Filme, one of

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's main film producers. The rights to its films were included within the Tobis film catalogue. In 2004, Tobis acquired

digital video Digital video is an electronic representation of moving visual images (video) in the form of encoded digital data. This is in contrast to analog video, which represents moving visual images in the form of analog signals. Digital video comprises ...

transcription equipment. In 2005, Tobis acquired Concept Films.

Services and facilities

* FILMLAB: provies film processing,

negative cutting Negative cutting (also known as negative matching and negative conforming) is the process of cutting motion picture negative to match precisely the final edit as specified by the film editor. Original camera negative (OCN) is cut with scissors and ...

, film-based

special effects Special effects (often abbreviated as SFX, F/X or simply FX) are illusions or visual tricks used in the theatre, film, television, video game, amusement park and simulator industries to simulate the imagined events in a story or virtual wor ...

and titles, safety and duplication copies ( interpositives and internegatives), optical blowups, colour grading and printing of copies; * DIGITAL: sound and image

postproduction Post-production is part of the process of filmmaking, video production, audio production, and photography. Post-production includes all stages of production occurring after principal photography or recording individual program segments. Th ...

* ARCHIVES: digital video transcription using restoration tools; * STUDIO: studio rental.

Tobis Catalogue

(1933) * As Pupilas do Senhor Reitor (1935) * Varanda dos Rouxinóis (1939) * João Ratão (1940) *

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(1942) *

O Costa do Castelo ''O Costa do Castelo'' (lit. ''The Costa from the Castle'') is a Portuguese film comedy from 1943, directed by Arthur Duarte, and starring António Silva, Maria Matos, Curado Ribeiro, Milú, Hermínia Silva, the famous Fado singer, and Te ...

(1943) * A Menina da Rádio (1944) * O Leão da Estrela (1945) * O Grande Elias (1950) * Benilde ou a Virgem-Mãe (1970)

External links

Tobis Portuguesa
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