Abstract
In 1991, the Centro Cultural Estudios Cinematográficos Lumiton, run by a group of former Lumiton technicians, family members and neighbors of Munro, founded an archive dedicated to preserving the history of Lumiton Thus, a collection of photographs was made public, degraded by the passage of time, in which the unknown faces of the workers of the national film industry are revealed. This article aims to analyze this visual collection to understand its place within the history of Lumiton. In it, it is stated that these photographs not only strain the anonymity to which film workers were subjected by both the industry and the history of national cinema, but also expose the loss of a part of the history guarded in the private archives of the working class. In addition, it is postulated that these images arethe cornerstone of a broader historiographical project that placed workers at the center of the historical development of Lumiton and was carried out by themselves from the moment they tookthese photographs until the recovered patrimonially through their Centro Cultural.