La Sombra de la Armada was the first Filipino-produced film. Miss Ru-perta Noguera played the principal
role in the film which was shown in 1913.
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Malayan
Movies, founded and headed by Jose Nepomuceno, was the first Filipino movie
company organized to make films.
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Dalagang Bukid, a Malayan Films production (1919), was the first full length Filipino
movie produced. Stars of the film were Atang de la Rama and Marcelino Ilagan.
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El Hijo
Desobediente, shown in 1922, was the first Visayan silent movie.
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Bataliyon XIII, directed by
Manuel Silos, was the first Filipino movie produced in color.
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Bertoldo
Balodoy was the first talking movie made in Visayan.
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Sound movies were first
introduced in Manila in August, 1929.
The film shown was called Syncopation. An
RKO Radio Picture, it was shown at the Radio Theater in Sta. Cruz, Manila where
most of the movie theaters were located.
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Zamboanga, the first Filipino
movie released for world distribution, was produced and starred in by Fernando
Poe Sr. with Rosa del Rosario co-starring. The underwater kissing sequences
proved a sensation wherever the movie was shown. The movie won an "honorable
citation" from the US Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science.
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