Featured in 1933 and starring Tita Merello, Azucena Maizani and Pepe Arias, “¡Tango!”-First Argentine sound film- can be viewed through YouTube.

Tape, Directed by Luis Moglia Barth, It also has two great figures of national culture such as Libertad Lamarque and Luis Sandrini, who made his absolute debut.

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The film has a script by Carlos de La Púa, the most important poet of lunfardo, the participation of the Juan de Dios Filiberto orchestra and the most important figures of the genre, among which, in addition to those mentioned, appear Mercedes Simone, Juan D’Arienzo and Alberto Gómez, among others.

“¡Tango!” inaugurated the Argentine talkies, whose technique came from the hand of Hollywood, and its content was marked by a great identification of the time in the national and popular.

It became a great success and opened the possibility for the public to meet the faces of the most emblematic stars of music and radio drama of that time in this format.

For their recording they used the novelty of the Movietone System, that allowed the soundtrack to be recorded on the same medium as the image. The implementation of optical sound was another factor that made the film industry grow.

further, It was the first film made by the Argentine film producer and distributor Sono Film, company that would become one of the most important in the country, current today.

In honor and commemorating the day of its premiere, the Buenos Aires Legislature sanctioned yesterday, the law 2492 that establishes the 27 April as the Argentine Cinema Day in the City of Buenos Aires.