Canary Islands' First Feature Film Marks 100 Years With Restored 4K Screenings and Live Piano
The Government of the Canary Islands announced on October 2 that Filmoteca Canaria will celebrate the centenary of the 1926 silent film El ladrón de los guantes blancos (The Thief of the White Gloves) with two special screenings. The 138-minute crime film, directed by José González Rivero and Romualdo García de Paredes and shot entirely in the Canary Islands, is regarded as the first feature film made by Canarians and the founding landmark of island cinema.
The film premiered on September 6, 1926, in Tenerife and was even screened in Cuba, but disappeared from screens with the arrival of sound cinema. The original nitrate reels, some of them badly deteriorated, are kept at Filmoteca Española. In 2023 Filmoteca Canaria commissioned a specialist laboratory to restore the film and digitise it in 4K, and it is this restored copy that will be shown for the centenary.
Both screenings will feature live piano accompaniment and free admission, with tickets to be collected in advance at the box office or the venues' websites: on October 6 at 19:00 at the Teatro Guiniguada on Gran Canaria, and on October 8 at 18:00 at the Espacio La Granja on Tenerife.
The anniversary screenings also close 'El cuerpo del delito' (The Body of the Crime), Filmoteca Canaria's retrospective cycle devoted to the Spanish thriller.
(Source: Government of the Canary Islands)
Source: Government of the Canary Islands
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