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• Devika Rani- Actress - 1935
  It was in 1928 that she joined Himansu Rai's production unit, then producing silent movies, and accompanied him to India as his assistant. It was during the sh ...and she won the popular sobriquet of First Lady of the Indian Screen. Her films included Jawani Ki Hawa, Mamta, Mian Biwi, Jeevan Naiya, Achhut Kanya, Jeev
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• Indian Film Industry
  ...haracter “Raja Harishchandra” in 1913, he made 95 movies and 26 short films in the span of 19 years, till 1932. He earned a lot of money, but ploughed
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• Setu Bandhan
  ...s, the lady declined to do the role. Although ladies had started acting in films by that time, it was difficult to get a suitable female artiste for a parti ...role in it. Dadasaheb had first brought Bhaurao Datar to the screen in his silent movie of 1924, Agryahoon Sutka, in the role of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj.
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• Division of film territories
  manufactures not just films, but consciousness in in the assembly of films, capital is edited while
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• Birth of Indian film industry
  ...nayak joined forces to further foster Prabhat Films, B.N. Sarkar moved his silent movie gear to South Calcutta where New Theatres was founded, Homi Wadia ins ...entry could invest in movie studios. Most of them were carryovers from the silent era anyway. Movie-watchers were still the upper echelons of society. The pr
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• Film in india
  One of the most famous silent mythologicals. It depicts the 'Mahabharata' story as a series of events bet Seminal silent historical film, the story features King Munja, ruler of Aranti, famed warr
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• The Talkie Era
  ...rhaps we may develop Indianness in sound in the way we use sound in Indian films, like our relationship with music." ...al instruments business, grown restless, gone into distribution of foreign films and finally, joined with tent showman Abdulally Esoofally in buying the Ale
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• Talkie
  1. Silent films—History and criticism—Congresses. 2. Motion pictures—Sound effects— —Views and Films Index, 25 April 1906
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• Prabhakar
  Anglo-Indian girls who had almost monopolized the female lead roles in silent films are unable to cope with the spoken word.
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• Saint
  ...ght a movie projector from the Bombay flea market and proceeded to exhibit films, studying the art of movies all the while. Anandarao was busy with assembli Baburao wrote the screenplays for his films and very systematically at that! He was also the first film - maker to adop
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• Moving pictures
  ...ople about history, science, human behavior, and many other subjects. Some films combine entertainment with instruction, to make the learning process more e ...ilms, documentaries, experimental films, industrial films, and educational films.
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• B
  ...h a small group controlled the production, distribution, and exhibition of films. The studio system would eventually be challenged as another kind of movie '''A 3 Silent Comedies'''
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• C
  ...o convey dramatic action. They put their ideas into action in mostly short films, of which perhaps the most noted in critical writings has been La souriante
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• Songs
  ...language or whichever genre often leading the Western world describing our films as those 'Indian musicals.' ...Filmmakers too have realized the importance of the song and dance in their films. Even today, with its stunning camerawork, eye-catching locales and sets, c
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• Aditi Nanavati
  ...professor Tayler and waiting for the bell to go off. All the students were silent, almost sleeping, but the cold and loud voice of professor Tayler kept our ...had recently purchased a film projector and had shown us a couple of short films.
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• Babu Rao Painter
  ...ght a movie projector from the Bombay flea market and proceeded to exhibit films, studying the art of movies all the while. Anandarao was busy with assembli Baburao wrote the screenplays for his films and very systematically at that! He was also the first film - maker to adop
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• Walter Benjamin
  ...ultural heritage. This phenomenon is most palpable in the great historical films. It extends to ever new positions. In 1927 Abel Gance exclaimed enthusiasti "Shakespeare, Rembrandt, Beethoven will make films... all legends, all mythologies and all myths, all founders of religion, an
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• Dr. V Shantaram
  ...tall.com/people/shantaram.html] shataram's fimography with details of some films ...ofession, found an opening for his mechanical genius in the magic world of films. He went about quietly beating the first magic man, Phalke, at his own game
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• JF Madan
  ...iverse strengths : import of food items to liquor, real estate, insurance, films and film equipment, and two theatrical companies in Calcutta - Alfred and C The success of his stage plays prompted Madan to produce his own films:
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• 1902
  ...foundation of a massive exhibition and distribution empire which dominated silent Indian, Burmese and Sri Lankan cinemas. ...e bring alive all those paintings and stories, it showed me the way to the films.
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