The danger of the shipwreck of time. The disappearance of the film Fermín Galán (Fernando Roldan, 1931)

Abstract

On December 12, 1931, the first anniversary of the Jaca uprising, the fiction film Fermín Galán was released, based on the events that occurred in the province of Huesca just a year before. A date that, like the uprising itself, became one of the most important milestones of republican ideology, since the audiovisual honored the feat of one of its most recent martyrs. Currently, however, no copy of the feature film is preserved, which confirms the lack of interest that, for decades, has existed in Spain in the recovery and conservation of film heritage.