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Madrid Carnival

1941 film by Edgar Neville

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 3, 2026
Entity authorityQ19364052 ↗
Source-derived summary

Madrid Carnival (Spanish: Verbena) is a 1941 Spanish semi-documentary drama film directed by Edgar Neville.

Plot

Cast

Maruja Tomás

Amalia de Isaura

Miguel Pozanco

Manuel Dicenta

José Martín

Manolo Morán

Ana María Quijada

Miguel Utrillo

Juan Monfort

José María Lado

References

Bibliography

Bentley, Bernard. A Companion to Spanish Cinema. Boydell & Brewer 2008.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Madrid Carnival” is 1941 film by Edgar Neville. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Madrid, Carnival and film, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1941, 2008—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1941-11-10. For this dossier, Madrid, Carnival and film is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “1941 film by Edgar Neville” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 3, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q19364052. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1941 and 2008.

Critical limits

Later fame can flatten the distinction between original context, subsequent adaptation and institutional collecting history. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Separate the work, its editions or performances, and its later reception. Catalogue records, publication histories and object files often preserve different parts of that story.

Best used for
  • Identifying works and editions
  • Tracing reception history
  • Finding collection records
Verify next

The original object or edition, catalogue raisonné, performance record, rights file and holding institution.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Madrid Carnival”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Madrid Carnival primary sources, Madrid Carnival archive and Madrid research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Madrid Carnival”?
  2. How did later circulation or interpretation alter the work’s reception?
  3. Which edition, object, performance or recording is being described?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Madrid Carnival” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.