La creación del Archivo Nacional de Teatro y Cine como centro fundacional de la investigación teatral y cinematográfica puertorriqueña

Abstract

The Archive Nacional de Teatro y Cine del Ateneo Puertorriqueño is the country's largest theatrical and cinematographic research and documentation center: its documentary collection serves researches, postgraduate and undergraduate students, scholars and creators of these two important branches of Puerto Rican culture. In the same way it generates proper investigations which redounds in important discoveries, such as the first literary piece published in Puerto Rico, by a puertorrican, ;Mucen o el triunfo del patriotismo ;, by Celedonio Luis Nebot, written and published in San Juan in the year 1833, ten years before ;Aguinaldo Puertorriqueño ;. Also preserves documents, moving images and paperwork of theater and cinema, as well as keeping important documents and works of the 19th Century. The Archivo stands as a center of documentation, not only of two national arts, but of all our national identity.