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The director Mario Gallo, an Italian who had arrived in Argentina in 1905, began shooting the country's first fiction films in 1908. The traditional account, endorsed by film researcher and historian Pablo C. Ducrós Hicken, is that El fusilamiento de Dorrego was released on 24 May 1908.[5] Other researchers date its filming two years later, which would make 1909's La Revolución de Mayo the first.[2][6][7]
Some scholars see in Gallo's film work the influence of Film d'Art [fr], which since 1908 had been France's first approach to cinema as art, moving it away from the mere spectacle of the fairground. This had its first expression in The Assassination of the Duke of Guise, a film that also had the distinction of being the first to feature original music.[7]
Pablo C. Ducrós Hicken, who viewed El fusilamiento de Dorrego in the 1920s, compared it favorably with contemporary Pathé films, and described it as "well composed".[9][10] However, some other accounts mention audience members laughing at inconsistencies such as cars passing by in the background of a scene ostensibly set in the 1820s.[3]
^Cuarterolo, Andrea (31 May 2013). "2.4 El arte de instruir deleitando. Discurso nacionalista y cine de ficción". De la foto al fotograma [From the Photo to the Frame] (in Spanish). p. 134. Retrieved 20 December 2017 – via issuu.
^"La ficción y los personajes" [Fiction and Characters] (in Spanish). Historia del Cine Argentino. Archived from the original on 12 October 2013. Retrieved 12 August 2025.
^Vázquez Rial, Horacio (1996). "Los porteños y el cine". Buenos Aires, 1880–1930: la capital de un imperio imaginario [Buenos Aires, 1880–1930: The Capital of an Imaginary Empire]. St. Martin's Press. p. 381. ISBN9788420694726. Retrieved 12 August 2025 – via Google Books.
^Cuarterolo, Andrea (31 May 2013). "1.2.1 El color como atracción". De la foto al fotograma [From the Photo to the Frame] (in Spanish). p. 56. Retrieved 12 August 2025 – via issuu.
