abstract: This article reviews the configuration of Cinemateca Uruguaya, addressing the disputes between film club groups during its emergence as well as its film acquisition processes, relationships with peripheral film club circuits, early exhibition practices, and its role in the assembly of Latin American associations that housed film archives. For this purpose, we review the literature dealing with this process and analyze documentary materials that showcase its international links. By describing the limited functions of the organization during its first stage, from 1952 to the mid-1960s, we highlight the importance of the personal links through which the institutionalization of the created organization was sought. This journey enables us to account for the fragile regional alliances and roles of actors in the general geopolitics of the framework of the International Federation of Film Archives.
Mariana Amieva (2025) studied this question.