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''Estudios San Miguel'' (San Miguel Studios) was an Argentine film studio that was active in the 1940s and early 1950s. It flourished during the golden age of Cinema of Argentina, and at its peak was one of the major studios in Buenos Aires. Genres ranged from musical comedy to costume drama and gaucho thriller. Films included ''La guerra gaucha'' (''The Gaucho War'' 1942), co-produced with ''Artistas Argentinos Asociados'', and the comedy ''Juvenilia'' (1943), both of which won several major awards. Eva Duarte, soon to become the first lady of Argentina as Eva Perón, appeared in two of the studio's films in 1945. The studio became overextended financially and ceased production after 1952. ==History== ''Estudios San Miguel'' was founded and owned by Miguel Machinandiarena (1899–1975). Machinandiarena was a Basque from Navarre who had emigrated to Argentina in 1915. His family was very wealthy, had large real estate investments and controlled the ''Casino de Mar del Plata''. Miguel Machinandiarena founded the company in 1937 with his brothers Narciso and Silvestre and began to build the studios and laboratories in the town of Bella Vista. The studio absorbed SIDE (''Sociedad Impresora de Discos Electrofónicos''), which had pioneered the tango format with a trilogy of films, but failed to establish a solid business model. In 1940 ''Estudios San Miguel'' launched its first production, ''Petróleo'', directed by Arturo S. Mom. Machinandiarena was one of the great promoters of the Argentine film industry. For a while the studio was one of the largest Argentine film companies. The Italian director Catrano Catrani, who emigrated to Argentina in 1937, became artistic director of the studio. He and other directors at the studio were assisted by Catrani's wife, Vlasta Lah, who later directed ''Las furias'' (1960) and ''Las modelos'' (1963). The set designer and later director Ralph Pappier designed the sets of ''La guerra gaucha'' (1942), ''En el viejo Buenos Aires'' (1942) and ''Madame Bovary'' (1947). In 1944 Pappier created the first special effects department for the studio. Pappier and Homero Manzi made ''Pobre, me madre querida'' in 1948. The Peruvian poet and author César Miró was a technical adviser at the studio from 1944 to 1953, when he moved to Paramount Pictures in Hollywood. The future producer and director Hector Olivera joined the studio as an assistant in 1947. Later he moved to ''Artistas Argentinos Asociados'' and then became a co-founder of ''Aries Cinematográfica Argentina'' in 1956. The scriptwriter, producer and director Enrique Carreras joined the studio when he was very young. He later founded the ''Productora Cinematográfica General Belgrano'' in 1949 and directed his first film, ''El mucamo de la niña'' in 1951. The studio's last production was released in 1952. As of 31 December 1954 the studio had a debt of more than six million pesos. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Estudios San Miguel」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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