José Leitão de Barros

José Leitão de Barros was born in 1896, in Lisbon according to most sources. A painter, secondary-school teacher and journalist, he shot at Nazaré, with the local fishermen, a documentary and then Maria do Mar, in 1930, before making large historical reconstructions. He also organised the historical processions of the Lisbon festivals and was secretary general of the Exhibition of the Portuguese World, where he showed the same taste for décor and crowds. He died in Lisbon in 1967.

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• CinemaA SeveraJosé Leitão de Barros · 1931Cinema