Simón Blasco Salas: un médico navarro en el mundo del cine

Abstract

Mr. Simón Blasco Salas was a Navarran physician of considerable reputation in his trade, very active in the field of professional corporativism and research. He was very appreciated in the whole of the region in which he practiced (Estella). His memoirs illustrate us on such activities. However, it cultivated an interest, which hardly became public at all, which in no way diminished its importance: cinema. His interest for the cinematographer brought about the creation of Trébol (clo-ver) Film Productions, Navarra Films and Procensa. He also participated in the distributing firm Discentro. With the first two companies he made five films in which he was really the producer, and that is precisely the purpose of this article: to recover for the figure of Dr. Blasco for the history of Spanish cinema.