Siteseeing Buenos Aires in the early Argentine sound filmLos tres berretines

Abstract

Much like the majority of Argentine films produced during the 1930s, Los tres berretines aims to represent Buenos Aires as a modern metropolis. Set in the cosmopolitan capital, the film represents the social life of the rising middle class, its target market. This paper examines how the directorial team assembles place in Los tres berretines and how these places represent a particular spatial experience and perception of Buenos Aires. In order to approximate these aims, Guiliana Bruno's notion of siteseeing is applied to the film. Bruno argues that the experience of filmic space is not exclusively visual: it is felt through textures of space that the viewer experiences with all of their senses. In Los tres berretines Los tres berretines . Dir. Equipo Lumiton. Perf. Luis Sandrini, Luis Arata, and Luisa Vehil . Lumiton , 1933 . [Google Scholar], it is proposed that the directorial team Equipo Lumiton leads the viewer on a siteseeing tour that begins in the streets of Buenos Aires in the title sequence, then moving on the sites of three important facets of the Argentine social imaginary of the 1930s – movies, soccer and tango. Assembling these sites through diverse narrative techniques (archetypes, metonymy, mise-en-scène, montage, etc.), Equipo Lumiton leads the viewer through spaces of everyday porteño life, guiding them both on a siteseeing tour of Buenos Aires and him or herself.

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