although there were no more than 8 rooms we spend there probably two hours staring into old videos. besides very old and beautiful movie posters, old video cameras and funny stories from the old cinemas (very very noisy) there were a lot of old videos. it was amazing to see from the first mute movies to the portuguese classics.
i don't know if you've ever heard about manoel de oliveira, a very famous (and over 100 years old) movie director. there was a movie from him from the 1930's, with no sound but with and incredible management of the scenes. back then, he was avant-gard and the way he shot and put the scenes together was very controversial. we were really impressed by the movies they were showing there.
it ended with this classic "canção de lisboa", some call it movies of the dictatorship, but they sure are funny!