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cinema, literature and oddities


Beyond the Scene

This section gathers everything that sustains the spectacle without, necessarily, occupying the center of the frame. Here the focus is on aesthetics, objects, creative solutions, and the resources that shaped the audiovisual experience over time.

In the CineArte Vintage series, the focus shifts to the graphic art of cinema —posters and images designed to seduce even before the screening begins. In Legendary Machines, we revisit cars, robots, and other machines that earned a central place in stories and the audience's imagination, becoming affective references as striking as the characters themselves. Meanwhile, Long before CGI explores the tricks, effects, and visual solutions conceived when imagination had to compensate for the absence of digital tools.

Together, these series treat what is usually seen as an accessory not as a behind-the-scenes curiosity, but as an essential language of the audiovisual world.

Article List

CineArte Vintage

Title Author Date

Posters from 1895 to 1909

Marcelo Amado January 06, 2026
Posters from 1910 to 1912 Marcelo Amado January 13, 2026

Posters from 1913

Marcelo Amado January 20, 2026

Posters from 1914

Marcelo Amado January 30, 2026

Posters from 1915

Marcelo Amado February 26, 2026
Posters from 1916 Marcelo Amado March 19, 2026

Legendary Machines

Title Author Date
The Vehicles of the Ultraman Marcelo Amado January 10, 2026
GMC Vandura: a childhood dream Marcelo Amado January 24, 2026

Black Beauty — The Green Hornet

Marcelo Amado February 07, 2026

General Lee, the star of The Dukes of Hazzard

Marcelo Amado February 20, 2026

Long Before CGI

Title Author Date

Long Before CGI: Introduction

Marcelo Amado January 27, 2026

Le Voyage dans la Lune (1902)

Marcelo Amado February 02, 2026

Land of the Lost (1974-1977)

Marcelo Amado February 25, 2026