La fábrica de sueños habla: la irrupción del cine sonoro en Barakaldo

ANSOLA GONZÁLEZ, Txomin

Publication year:

2000

Publication place:

Donostia-San Sebastián

ISBN:

84-8419-965-7

ISSN:

1136-6834

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Summary

The cinematographic exhibition in Barakaldo experimented a considerable revitalisation in the first half of the nineteen-thirties, coinciding with the expansion that the city was going through in those times and the arival of the "talkies" cinema. The cinematographic bilboard, that had been monopolised as from 1916 by the Salón Principal, experienced an important growth with the opening of four new cinemas: Baracaldo Theatre (1930), Salon María Guerrero (1932), Cine Luchana (1933), and Salon Landaburu (1935). This increase in the offer brought about a considerable increase in the number of spectators, an average of almost half a million a year, which made cinema become a show for the masses.