Biography
Feliciano Manuel Vitores (Belorado, Burgos) was a Spanish film entrepreneur, producer, screenwriter and sound recordist. As the owner of the Phonofilm patent in Spain, he produced the country's first sound film, El misterio de la Puerta del Sol (1929).
In 1928, Vitores bought the rights to the Phonofilm patent for Spain from Lee De Forest and called it “Fonofilm”. That same year, he made the documentary short, Discurso del Marqués de Estella, in which he shows a speech by the former dictator Miguel Primo de Rivera talking about the advance of sound films in Spain; and the comedy short El orador o La mano, a monologue by Ramón Gómez de la Serna, filmed in the Retiro Park in Madrid, which deals with a digression about the faculties that a good orator should present and has a surrealist character. It has been catalogued as one of the first recorded documents of the humor monologue genre.
He produced a series of humorous short films directed by Manuel Marín, starring the Spanish comedian...