A Listening Post special looking back at a time when Cuban movie theatres delivered the news like nobody else.
This is a story of history recorded on film; a history of revolutionary Cuba; a history of the world seen through Cuban eyes.
'Noticiero ICAIC Latinoamericano' was a series of cinematic newsreels produced from 1960 to 1990 by the Cuban film Institute ICAIC. The weekly news programme, covering major local and global events, would be shown before film screenings in the capital, Havana, and in towns and villages around the island.
Many of those 1,493 newsreels could just be derided as propaganda, but they pushed the limits of news, of visual storytelling, and have left a legacy.
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