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The author a celebrated film critic presents the history of the film industry in Uruguay for the last century, with detail recounts of the great film enterprises and their main figures: Bernardo Glucksmann, CENSA, Glaudec, Metro-Golden Meyer and their agreements regarding their films distribution and exhibition, the movie theaters, their architecture and difficult moments and finally the post-dictatorship new trends like cinema clubs, exhibition of erotic and picaresque films due to censorship changes and the development of art cinema.