The first Spanish language translation (by Manuel Figueroa) of I Am Legend arrived in 1960 from Minotauro in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
One of the readers of this edition was undoubtedly Mario Gómez Martín — a student filmmaker at the Escuela Oficial de Cinematografía (EOC) who in 1967 shot a 36-minute reasonably faithful adaptation of the novel. Some of the visuals suggest that Martín may have also seen El último hombre sobre la Tierra (The Last Man on Earth). The film surfaced online for a limited time in 2020, in Spanish only. I was able to translate the onscreen titles and some of the dialogue, and employed someone to assist with the translation of the remainder of the dialogue. All so I could do as detailed a write-up as possible of the adaptation for bare•bones.
Fortunately, I wasn't the only one to secure a copy in that limited window, and the short film is now available for viewing on YouTube with English subtitles. It's worth checking out for the sequences that Martín captures Matheson's text so faithfully.
Come back next week for another item from the I Am Legend Archive!
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