Máximo Calvo Olmedo

Máximo Calvo Olmedo was born in Galicia in the late eighties of the nineteenth century, trained in photography and cinema in Spain, emigrated to the Americas in 1911 and settled in Panama, where he set up a studio and shot newsreels. A priest who came to find him took him to Colombia to film the adaptation of a famous novel. He stayed in Cali, ran cinemas there and built his own equipment, up to sound recording. He would shoot one more film in 1945, then nothing more. He died in 1973.

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• CinemaFlores del valleMáximo Calvo Olmedo · 1941Cinema