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El cine y el tango - Volver Tango
"El cine y el tango" is an episode of the Volver Tango documentary series about how Argentine cinema and tango developed together. Narration, interviews, film excerpts and sung tangos take the story from the silent era through the sound-film boom of the 1930s and 1940s, the later decline, and tango's return to the screen in the 1980s.
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Silent films and Gardel
The film presents José Agustín Ferreyra as a silent-cinema pioneer whose films often took the titles of tangos. One interviewee estimates that about 90 percent of Argentine silent films are lost. The narration credits Carlos Gardel with early sound experiments: ten shorts directed by Eduardo Morera in 1930, followed by features made in France.
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The sound era
According to the narration, the film "Tango" became Argentina's first national sound feature. Its cast included radio singers such as Tita Merello, Libertad Lamarque and Azucena Maizani. Speakers explain how Ferreyra's melodramas with Lamarque used sung tangos to move the plot forward, while Manuel Romero's comedies used a tango to retell the story. The episode also describes Mercedes Simone and Ida Denis dubbing the singing of film actresses.
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Decline and return
The film links the decline of this cinema to the end of the Second World War and the political changes of 1955. It also points to the arrival of Caribbean music in Argentine films. It surveys tango in international cinema and closes with Fernando Solanas's "El exilio de Gardel" and "Sur", which it presents as tango's return to Argentine film.
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