O primeiro cinema nas páginas das revistas curitibanas (1907-1913)

Abstract

This paper discusses the vestiges of the early cinema in Curitiba city, Brazil, in the pages of the main illustrated magazines that circulated in that city between 1907-1913. In those years, among others aspects of urban modernization, the graphic services where expanding in Curitiba, what allowed a broad circulation of illustrated magazines that contained cartoons, advertisements and photographs. Such periodicals made constant remissions to the consumption places of cinema, that arrived in the city through the hands of european entrepreneurs. In 1909, for example, the circulation of the humour magazine entitled “Cinema” evidenced some of the existing connections between the illustrated magazines themselves and that early cinema, all participating in a new type of cultural consumption. The primary aim of this text is to evaluate those periodicals as catalysts of a wide cultural phenomenon, of which it participated themselves, and whose dimensions were transnational.