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Portuguese film history began on 18 June 1896, at the Real Colyseu da Rua da Palma nº 288, in Lisbon, when Edwin Rousby presented Robert William Paul's Animatograph, using a Teatrograph projector. This places the debut of film in Portugal around six months after the Lumière brothers' inaugural presentation in Paris.
from Portuguese lascari, from Urdu and Persian laškarī 'soldier', from laškar 'army'. Launch from Portuguese lancha, from Malay lancharan 'boat'. Lingo perhaps from Old Portuguese lingoa, today's língua, ("language", "tongue") related to Old Provençal lengo, lingo. Or perhaps, from Polari slang, ultimately from Italian lingua franca ...
In the early 1940s, Portugal was the setting for over a dozen films, depicting the city as a place of "international intrigue". [1] In subsequent decades, the trope of Lisbon as a city of espionage and foreign conflicts continued to endure, although films started to branch beyond this genre from the 1950s onward.
Portuguese film awards (1 C, 6 P) S. Films scored by Portuguese composers (2 C) Sophia Award winners (13 P) W. Works by Portuguese filmmakers (2 C) Pages in category ...
The following are lists of Portuguese films ordered by decade and year of release. For an alphabetical list of Portuguese films see Category:Portuguese films . 1930s to 1990s
A film director, specifically one who controls most aspects of a film, or other controller of an artistic situation. The English connotation derives from French film theory. It was popularized in the journal Cahiers du cinéma : auteur theory maintains that directors like Hitchcock exert a level of creative control equivalent to the author of a ...
Portuguese film posters (88 F) Portuguese film video covers (5 F) B. Portuguese black-and-white films (38 P) E. English-language Portuguese films (13 P) I.
Gloria (1999 Portuguese film) H. Hammerhead (film) I. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade; The Invisible Circus (film) The Invisible Life; J. Journey to Portugal (film)