 This association lead to the foundation of the original Cinemateca de Cuba, officialised as an institution in 1948, and founded by Herman Puig and Ricardo Vigón, which would later be reborn in 1961 with the initiative of Alfredo Guevara and the then newly formed ICAIC as today's Cuba Cinemateca.Although Cuban film history did not receive its official wings until the foundation of the ICAIC in 1959, Puig, along with a group that included Carlos Franqui, the future ICAIC cameraman Ramón F. Suárez, and the writers Edmundo Desnoes and Guillermo Cabrera Infante ('Tres Tristes Tigres') made a number of short films.Herman Puig, together with Carlos Franqui, made a short film (Carta de una madre, "Letter to a mother").