1896—1920年间早期的拉美默片时代,是拉美传媒史上最少被提及且最难被记载的时代。这一时期被笼罩在战争以及随之而来的灾难性的政治和社会事件中,其重要性被其他媒体的引进和发展所湮没,即20世纪四五十年代发展起来的有声电影和广播电台以及20世纪六七十年代发展起来的电视的“黄金时代”。无论是关于外来技术、思想控制以及不成熟的模仿或是同一时期全球媒体编年史的论述,这些发展似乎更好地“迎合 The era of early Latin American silent film from 1896 to 1920 was the least mentioned and hardest-to-read era in Latin American media history. The period was shrouded in the wake of the war and its ensuing disastrous political and social events, whose importance was obscured by the introduction and development of other media, namely, the sound film and radio station developed in the 1940s and 1950s And the ”golden age“ of television developed in the 1960s and ’70s. Whether it’s expositions of alien technology, ideological control, and immature parodies or the annals of the global media of the same era, these developments seem to be better ”cater