Catalonia took to cinema very early. In 1897 – the same time the Lumière brothers were active in neighboring France – the first fiction film in the history of Catalan and Spanish cinema was shot on a café-bar terrace outside the Vapor Vell factory in Sants, Barcelona. Silent, black and white, and barely a minute long, Fructuós Gelabert’s ‘Riña en un café’ (Fight in a Café) nevertheless sparked the beginning of a golden age for Catalan cinema.
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