巴西电影事业的历史是很可悲的。人们会提出这样一个问题:何以另外两个拉丁美洲国家——墨西哥和阿根廷能够建立自己的民族电影艺术,而巴西却不能?这个问题是不容易回答出来的。圣保罗市艺术博物馆成立的影片资料馆可以帮助我们研究巴西电影艺术的不顺利的历史。该馆收藏的资料说明巴西电影艺术家从巴西电影创始之初就力求具有自己独特的语言。最初的巴西影片技术质量很差,但是其中绝大多数都非常质 The history of Brazilian film business is very sad. People will ask the question: Why can not two other Latin American countries, Mexico and Argentina, be able to establish their own national cinema art while Brazil can not? This question is not easy to answer. The Film Archive, set up by the City of São Paulo Museum of Art, helps us to study the unfortunate history of Brazilian cinema art. The museum collection of information shows that Brazilian film artists from the very beginning of the Brazilian film sought to have its own unique language. The original Brazilian video technology was of poor quality, but most of them were very qualitative