Buscando Olvido
Synopsis
Seeking oblivion incorporated optical sound (sound on film) into Peruvian narrative cinema in the Movietone system, which was a patent of the Western Electric company.
- Director
- Sigifredo Salas
- Original language
- xx
- Countries
- Peru
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