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• TRACING PHALKE
  ...work of phalke at present. Besides, a few reels of Phalke’s early silent films are fortunately acquired by the [[National Film Archive of India]]. The evi ...abiding! Nothing in the world could convert him from his views that Indian films could be produced – Indian film industry could be established All the cir
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• In the Age of Silence
  ...E, the year - 1913, the place - Nasik and the film - Raja Harischandra - a silent four reeler with inter-titles in English and Hindi - the story of a benevol ...nt for the Lumiere presentation, was not interested in showing the Lumiere films to a wider audience. Instead he was more keen on getting hold of the Lumier
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• IN THE AGE OF SILENCE
  ...- [[1913]], the place -[[ Nasik]] and the film - [[Raja Harischandra]] - a silent four reeler with inter-titles in English and Hindi - the story of a benevol ...nt for the Lumiere presentation, was not interested in showing the Lumiere films to a wider audience. Instead he was more keen on getting hold of the Lumier
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• BEES RANIYON KA BIOSCOPE
  ...with Children film society of India, teaching village children how to make films. In 1975 I joined I.S.R.O as a senior producer making science educational p ...when new wave was happening. We had formed a film cooperative and produced films like Ghashi ram Kotwall and Arvind Desai ki Ajeeb daastaan. Somewhere the i
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• Biography
  ...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 ...to witness it. However,since dadasaheb Phalke devoted his life for Indian Films he is considered the pioneer of Indian Film Industry.
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• Workshops
  ...ual presentation of the brief history of Indian cinema which also includes films about pre-cinema industrial arts and crafts related to the later developmen ...tography Act – [[Arrival of Sound Cinema]] – Tries to add sound to his silent film ‘Setu Bandhan’ – after failure in talkies, sets up small busines
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• Jamshedji Framji Madan (1856 - 1926)
  ...roducing, distributing and showing an extraordinary large number of Indian films. Truly an outstanding achievement, and one without which it is impossible t
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• DUNDIRAJ GOVIND PHALKE
  ...character “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 ...to witness it. However,since dadasaheb Phalke devoted his life for Indian Films he is considered the pioneer of Indian Film Industry.
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• Dhundiraj Govind Phalke.
  ...character “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 ...to witness it. However,since dadasaheb Phalke devoted his life for Indian Films he is considered the pioneer of Indian Film Industry.
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• “Talkies
  ...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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• INDIAN CINEMA
  ...ess of the film business from 1896, the historical year when Lumiere Bros' films were exhibited at Watson Hotel in Mumbai. This was the forerunner of the fi First silent feature film from South India
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• Indian Cinema
  ...ess of the film business from 1896, the historical year when Lumiere Bros' films were exhibited at Watson Hotel in Mumbai. This was the forerunner of the fi First silent feature film from South India
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• "Life of Christ",
  Silent. One of the 15 films listed in the category "Religion" on the Vatican film list.
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• Life of Christ in the
  Silent. One of the 15 films listed in the category "Religion" on the Vatican film list.
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• Arrival of Sound Cinema
  1. Silent films—History and criticism—Congresses. 2. Motion pictures—Sound effects— —Views and Films Index, 25 April 1906
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• PhalkeCreativeWiki:About
  ...r mark." Why can't this same process apply to film? Subsequent viewings of films often reveal more or, sometimes, unfortunately, less. The preconceptions of ...p Lopate understands this process when he discusses the experience certain films create for him as a viewer which appropriates a state of profane meditation
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• PHALKE STRORIES
  Even the crows were silent. But everywhere on the ground lay sleeping ...avated sites, drawings that will later help him to design the sets for his films.
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• Indian Film History
  ...ess of the film business from 1896, the historical year when Lumiere Bros' films were exhibited at Watson Hotel in Mumbai. This was the forerunner of the fi ...m's return Bhatvadekar secured a projector and began touring with imported films, adding the wrestling film on its return and then his second film, showing
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• Father of the Indian film industry
  ...dullay Esoofally (1884-1957) outright bought prints of foreign made silent films to exhibit at his “bioscope” tent shows. Until 1907, Esoofally traveled ...tvadekar acquired a projector and became an open-air-exhibitor of imported films. Along with these were his wrestling match film and a documentary on the tr
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• V. Shantaram,
  ...He said he was appalled by "the pessimism of Barua's Devdas and other such films...which affected the audience so strongly."Aadmi dealt with the chance enco ...lure is nothing; a commercial failure is a sentence. The secret is to make films that please the public and that allow the director to reveal his personalit
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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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• Alam Ara
  ...steeping into the new talkie era as well as rang the death knell to silent films. ...from the stage as voice was the chief criterion and not all actors of the silent era could adapt to sound.
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• A short history of cinema, notes from gilles deleuze
  ...gic of (paradoxical) sense informing the classical Hollywood cinema in its silent phase. In this series of shots, Buster's moving figure provides a stable fo ...o way opposes the practice of Soviet and Hollywood films especially in the silent period. Rather, he sees them as two distinct manifestations of the movement
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• 1922
  ...s essays on film by [[Hemedrakumar Roy]] and Atorthy's seminal writings on silent Bengali cinema. [[Mama Warerkar]] writes the play [[Satteche Gulam]]. ...starts Empire Film Distributors in Karachi and Lahore, importing American films.
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• Master Vitthal
  ...production, ending his career in the 60s, playing minor parts in Marathi films.
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• Zubeida
  ...ki. Retired at the height of her stardom in the late 30s, doing only a few films later on.
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• Prabhakar remembers
  ...o the another, taking with him seven or eight persons, a projector and the films [[Raja Harishchandra]], [[Mohini Bhasmasur]] and [[Satyavan Savitri]]. When ...importance to photography. He never liked the photography of other Indian films. However, he liked the photography of Baburao Painter's [[Sinhgad]] so much
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• Sardar Bai
  ...three months later, I returned to Kohlapur with an acute desire to act in films and I met Baburao. Scared because of the previous incident, I went to meet
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• Anandrao Painter
  ...o photography. He also sees foreign silent films and the seed to make such films takes root in Anandrao's mind. He sets up a photography studio in Madhavba ...idea of starting a film theatre in Kolhapur, to first learn about creating films. Deccan Cinema starts in Kolhapur as a result. But because Vashikar refuses
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• Pr 1933
  ...the mobility of the medium, as opposed to the staginess of the early sound films.
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• R. Nataraja Mudalier
  ...constructed ,the first studio in South India at Chennai.His other notable films are ,Lavakusa(1919),Rukmini satyabama(1920), Markandeya(1922) .He was the o
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• Krishna Janma
  I did roles in Dadasaheb’ s two films, Krishna Janma and Kaliamardan. In Kaliamardan, he gave me the central rol ...mother and us ( children) sauntering in a park. Before actually acting in films, he taught me how to show emotions like anger, love, joy, fear etc. and mad
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• Continue to page 3
  ...ke tells his wife that he is going to enter the picture business, and make films on Rama and Krishna. Soon – but, with my films next time.
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• Continue to page 4
  ...melts down. Tough competition compels the financing partners of Hindustan Films to recall Phalke to the fold once more. 1932213 ‘Setu Bandhan’, a silent film, does not do well214With the dawn of the Talkies, trademarks come aliv
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• 1931
  "Should Respectable Women Join th Films"? and th rejoinder "Why Shouldn't Respectable Women Join the Films"?
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• Save dada
  ...m's return Bhatvadekar secured a projector and began touring with imported films, adding the wrestling film on its return and then his second film, showing ...Indian documentary film makers, H. S. Bhatavdekar, made silent documentary films, Return of Wrangler Paranjpye (1902) and Delhi Durbar of Lord Curzon (1903)
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• Day 4
  ...t themselves, the man Phalke is dead and gone, the surviving prints of his films are at the National Film Archives of India.There is no one to encounter her ...not think this up? another voice is saying- N, i love you your work. N is silent)
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