Feliciano Manuel Vitores

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 orad…