TVE's Estudio 1: Franco-era theater that remains unique
Twelve Angry Men and Los Delfines: Estudio 1 theater from Franco's era is still watched today, though public archives barely preserve it.
English · Original discussion in Spanish · Published
Estudio 1: The theater broadcast by TVE under Franco that nobody replicates today
A jury locked in a room, a man exclaiming "those scoundrels are ruining our lives, two years without coming to see me," and a camera that barely cuts away. Twelve Angry Men, broadcast by TVE as part of the Estudio 1 program, continues to be the benchmark by which some audiences measure all subsequent fiction. The play, starring José Bódalo, was recorded almost in one take, a detail that those who saw it as children remember decades later.
The Estudio 1 plays still sought after to watch online
The catalog reviewed includes Los Delfines by Jaime Salom (1974), with Luis Prendes and Jaime Blanch, La barca sin pescador by Alejandro Casona (1966), Alguna de ustedes by Diego Fabbri (1972), Proceso a Jesús (1974), and two plays by Buero Vallejo, La Fundación and En la ardiente oscuridad. Added to these is Cena de matrimonios (1962), with Arturo de Córdova, a social hypocrisy farce that anticipates the tension of Perfectos desconocidos (Perfect Strangers).
Why is Estudio 1 considered better than today's television?
Some argue that the advantage lay in the cast: an ensemble, in terms of both quantity and quality, impossible to assemble today. The counterargument recalls that it was entertainment broadcast during a dictatorship, with its constraints and propaganda. It is debated whether the merit belonged to the system or to an unrepeatable generation of actors. Nostalgia, even the most critical admit, also plays a role.
The puzzling fact
Almost none of those broadcasts are well-preserved in official archives. The result is a paradox: part of that cultural heritage continues to reach viewers through old downloads and copies hosted on servers outside of public television, not through its own platform.
A jury locked in a room, a man exclaiming "those scoundrels are ruining our lives, two years without coming to see me," and a camera that barely cuts away. Twelve Angry Men, broadcast by TVE as part of the Estudio 1 program, continues to be the benchmark by which some audiences measure all subsequent fiction. The play, starring José Bódalo, was recorded almost in one take, a detail that those who saw it as children remember decades later.
The Estudio 1 plays still sought after to watch online
The catalog reviewed includes Los Delfines by Jaime Salom (1974), with Luis Prendes and Jaime Blanch, La barca sin pescador by Alejandro Casona (1966), Alguna de ustedes by Diego Fabbri (1972), Proceso a Jesús (1974), and two plays by Buero Vallejo, La Fundación and En la ardiente oscuridad. Added to these is Cena de matrimonios (1962), with Arturo de Córdova, a social hypocrisy farce that anticipates the tension of Perfectos desconocidos (Perfect Strangers).
Why is Estudio 1 considered better than today's television?
Some argue that the advantage lay in the cast: an ensemble, in terms of both quantity and quality, impossible to assemble today. The counterargument recalls that it was entertainment broadcast during a dictatorship, with its constraints and propaganda. It is debated whether the merit belonged to the system or to an unrepeatable generation of actors. Nostalgia, even the most critical admit, also plays a role.
The puzzling fact
Almost none of those broadcasts are well-preserved in official archives. The result is a paradox: part of that cultural heritage continues to reach viewers through old downloads and copies hosted on servers outside of public television, not through its own platform.
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