Abstract
In 1911, inaugurated in the high ridges of the Anhangabaú Valley the Municipal Theatre of São Paulo, which associated with the construction of the Viaduct of Chá in 1892, reflected the necessity for a movie set more suited to the transformations forced by the agro-export economy (coffee and sugar) and an incipient industrialization. Indeed, in 1911, the Frenchman Joseph-Antoine Bouvard wa…