Location: Casa de los Curas exhibition hall, (Calle Mayor, 24)
Time: 6:30 p.m.
A selection of theater and film programs printed by the Calagurritan company in the second half of the 20th century
Coinciding with the tenth anniversary of the death of Ernesto Ortega, the Calahorra City Council has mounted the exhibition “Cinema and theater through Gráficas Ortega”.
It is a tour of the theater and cinema in Calahorra through the documents of the Calagurritan company Gráficas Ortega, donated in 1999, and which, for the first time, are taken from the Municipal Archive to be shown to the city. Material donated by the relatives of José María Toledo is also exhibited.
Cinema, theater and music are the common thread of this exhibition, which is divided into three blocks: Theater and cinema in Calahorra in the mid-20th century, Gráficas Ortega -directed by brothers Ernesto and Eugenio Ortega-, and El theater and cinema boom in our city.
The first of them includes photographs of the city’s theaters from the Fondo Bella and documents from the Municipal Archive such as plans of the Díaz and Ideal theaters and the Goya cinema and programs from the Quintiliano theater that illustrate the theatrical and cinematographic history of Calahorra from the year 1900.
The second block of the exhibition focuses on the creation of the local company Gráficas Ortega and its evolution until its closure. Diary of the printing press with notes of the orders, the license to start the activity, photographs of the Ortega family, posters, contracts with theaters, tickets and an album with the theater programs, as well as photoliths that they used to print the programs. They are all documents from the Ortega Fund.
Gráficas Ortega printed 90% of Spain’s theater programs such as La Latina, Jovellanos, Calderón, Maravillas, etc.
Finally, movie posters, photographs of actors and actresses of the time, some dedicated to Juanito Navarro and the Hurtado sisters, and theater and film programs are exhibited to record the importance that these two arts had in our city. .
The exhibition can be visited at the Casa de los Curas until March 7, Monday to Friday, from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.; from Thursday to Saturday, from 6 to 8 p.m.; and on Sundays and holidays, from 12 to 2 p.m.
2024-01-24 14:11:40
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