El patrimonio industrial cinematográfico en Murcia (1896-2000)cámaras y proyectores

Resum

The main objective of this Doctoral Thesis has been, on the one hand, to catalogue the film cameras and projectors in the municipality of Murcia and, on the other hand, to analyse the evolution of this machinery throughout the history of cinema, paying special attention to those used in the commercial exhibition sector in the municipality of Murcia and those used by amateur, semi-professional and professional filmmakers in this territory. To this end, the methodological basis taken as a starting point has been the location and inventory of these devices by carrying out fieldwork and then proceeding to catalogue them. The vicissitudes to which these cultural assets have been subjected have led to the disappearance of a good part of them. Nevertheless, we are left with a small but significant sample of the technology that was used during the years when they were in use in the Murcian territory. In this sense, the scarcity of this machinery is corroborated from a quantitative point of view in the 78 devices that have been catalogued. In this sense, the proposed catalogue model has been designed to serve as a starting point, not only to expand and enrich the number of these devices in other municipalities in the Region of Murcia, but also to extrapolate it to other territories and inventory those that are preserved. In this sense, knowledge is the starting point for raising awareness of the need to research, conserve and design action plans for this heritage which, unfortunately, does not currently enjoy the necessary legal backing to successfully implement measures for the protection and dissemination of these cultural assets.