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- While most early filmmakers and producers in the country were mostly wealthy enterprising foreigners and expatriates, on September 12, 1919, Dalagang Bukid (Country Maiden), a movie based on a popular musical play, was the first movie made and shown by Filipino filmmaker José Nepomuceno.
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While most early filmmakers and producers in the country were mostly wealthy enterprising foreigners and expatriates, on September 12, 1919, Dalagang Bukid (Country Maiden), a movie based on a popular musical play, was the first movie made and shown by Filipino filmmaker José Nepomuceno. [6]
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Films were first shown in the Philippine Islands in 1897 during the revolt against Spain, when two Swiss businessmen sponsored the opening of the Cinematografo in Manila. From this, the word “cine” became slang for the movies. The Cinematografo showed documentaries brought in from the U.S. and Europe, and closed after just a few months because the ...
Named for national hero Dr. José Rizal, (1861–1896), who helped spur the Philippine Revolution, the Cinematografo Rizal opened in Manila in 1903. It was the first movie theater owned by a Filipino. Cinematografo Filipino opened sometime later in Tondo, helping to establish movies as an important element in Philippine culture. Films started to chang...
The father of Philippine cinema, José Nepomuceno (1893–1959), was a successful photographer before switching to movies. He opened a production company called Malayan Movies in 1917, followed two years later by his releasing the first Filipino-produced film, Dalagang Bukid (akaCountry Maiden), starring Atang de la Rama.
Released in 1930, Nepomuceno's masterpiece was Noli Me Tangere (akaThe Social Cancer), based on José Rizal's Spanish-language novel of the same name. Rizal's story is credited with spurring a sense of nationalism among Filipinos of the day. The American film Syncopation was the first “talkie” shown in the Philippines. The first locally produced fil...
Philippine studios emerged in the period 1934 to 1941, producing several pictures simultaneously in the manner of Hollywood studios. The first internationally known Philippine film was Zamboanga, starring Fernando Poe, Sr. and Rosa del Rosario. Most stars during this time were mestizos, i.e., Filipinos with mixed foreign blood or Caucasian features...
With World War II raging, the 1940s brought an awareness of violence and conflict to Philippine films. The Japanese occupation brought an end to filmmaking until the occupiers revived the industry for propaganda purposes. They brought Japanese films to the Islands, but the locals didn't take to them. The paucity of locally-produced films drove Fili...
The war ended in 1945, and the Philippines became a free republic in 1946. With the domestic film business essentially dormant due to the war, Hollywood studios initially dominated the market. However, four major Philippine film companies emerged after the war. LVN Pictures specialized in comedy and Sampaguita Pictures in melodrama, while Premiere ...
Post-war Philippine films featured raw emotion, patriotism and heroism. War films released in 1946 included Garrison 13, Dugo at Bayan (akaThe Country's Blood), Walang Kamatayan (akaDeathless) and Guerilyera, but the most acclaimed film from that year was Orasang Ginto(LVN), directed by Manuel Conde. War films celebrated resistance movements and al...
By the late '40s, Philippine cinema had expanded beyond war themes to include comedies, melodramas, and romance films like 1948's Sarung Banggi, directed by one of the earliest (and few) Filipina directors, Susana C. De Guzman. This is one of her first films for LVN and it stars golden age icons Rogelio de la Rosa as Nanding and Mila del Sol as Mar...
In the 1950s, the big four studios produced about 350 films per year. These played in just two Manila locations, the Dalisay Theater and Life Theater, while Hollywood fare was shown everywhere else. The big four controlled the industry, each employing its own stars, directors and staff. The first full-color Philippine film was Prinsipe Amante (1951...
Aug 23, 2022 · A young Manuel Ubaldo as “Ding” in the first Darna movie. The boy destined to fly with Darna was born in 1941 as Manuel Ubaldo or “Uwel,” a native of Pakil, Laguna. His two brothers, who went by the screen names Rico and Nobel Macabasco, had started as singers on stage and then transitioned to films.
Oct 13, 2018 · Solito is the first Filipino to make it to the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, USA, two years in a row (with The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros and Tuli).
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- The tide was on their side – According to Antonio Pigafetta, an Italian scholar and explorer from the Republic of Venice who traveled with Ferdinand Magellan and his crew by order of the King Charles I of Spain, they were forced to anchor their ships “two crossbow flights” away from the beach so they have to wade themselves to the shore and engage in a hand to hand combat with the natives.
- The Spaniards were outnumbere d – Based on Pigafetta’s account, 50 armored Spaniards including Magellan faced around 1,500 warriors of Lapu-Lapu.
- Magellan made a wrong assumption – Magellan thought that because Rajah Humabon was the king of Cebu, he was the king of Mactan as well and Datu Lapu-Lapu would obey Humabon, but the structure of Chiefdom in the ancient Filipino society is not like that of the European society.
- Magellan underestimated his opponent – Magellan went to Mactan Island with around sixty Spaniards and twenty to thirty balangay (war boats) of Humabon’s warriors from Cebu but he wanted to show-off the superiority of their European armor and weapons so he told Humabon’s warriors to remain in their balangay as if they were just audience he brought along to watch him slaughter the natives who to him looked naïve with battles.
Apr 19, 2024 · The Philippines takes its name from Philip II, who was king of Spain during the Spanish colonization of the islands in the 16th century. Because it was under Spanish rule for 333 years and under U.S. tutelage for a further 48 years, the Philippines has many cultural affinities with the West. The country was wracked by political turmoil in the ...
When the First Philippine Republic was constituted on January 22, 1899, in Malolos, that municipality became the seat of government of the Philippine Republic, and was serving as such when hostilities erupted between U.S. and Filipino forces in the Second Battle of Manila on February 4. [31] On February 4, 1899, armed conflict erupted in Manila ...
