He released the first sound film of Spanish cinema, El misterio de la Puerta del Sol, or The Mystery of Puerta del Sol (1928), which cost 18,000 pesetas at the time.
His earliest position was in Paris as an editor and printer of silent film title cards.
During World War I he traveled to the United States, where he created Elijah Press Inc., a producer of multilingual title cards.
During the Spanish Civil War he was in charge of cinematography for the Generalitat (the then-recently created governing body of Republican revolutionaries after the overthrow of Spain's military dictator, which was later incorporated into the Popular Front during the Spanish Civil War), for whom he released Bohemians (1937) and No quiero!
After the Spanish Civil War broke out, he went into exile in Mexico, where he released eight films.