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HansaThapliyal at 12:17, 25 May 2009

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Phalke explains his photographs of the gas balloon to his students.
He has joined Kala Bhuvan as a teacher.
He lectures:

'Photograpy depends upon two basic operations- the formation of an image on a flat surface by an optical device, and a chemical method of sentizing that surface to light so that the image can be captured permanantly.

The first requirement was met by camera obscura, known since the 16th century and used by artists as an aid to sketching.

Wedgewood was the first one to make a light-sensitive material when, in about 1800, hetreated white leather and paper with silver salt.

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 'Now Daguerre, when he took over Niepce's invention, was running the Panorama Theatre animated by light shows and movements in the Place du ..........'
-'The camera obsucre had generated at one and the same time painting, photography and the diorama'
+'The camera obsucra had generated at one and the same time painting, photography and the diorama'
 'We know the original relationship between theatre and the cult of the dead.
-The first actors seperated themselves from the community by playing the role of the dead, a figuration of the motionless and made-up faces with which we see the dead.'
+The first actors separated themselves from the community by playing the role of the dead, a figuration of the motionless and made-up faces with which we see the dead.'
 Phalke's teaching fascinates the students but they don't trust him.
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 "Birds need not be messengars", he says. "They also need to eat".
-Phalke is hurt ad made insecure by his young students.
+Phalke is hurt and made insecure by his young students.
 Then he receives a letter that one of his backdrops has won the first prize in a competition in Ahmedabad.
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 It is the same area in Ratlam where the tribals have protested to Phalke in their friendly voices, "Babu, don't imprison us in your box".
-From the train, Phalke sees a bridegroom running away with this bride, the others chasing him, like some ritual.
+From the train, Phalke sees a bridegroom running away with his bride, the others chasing him, like some ritual.
 The transient train frees the groom from the territory of the bride.

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 'Photograpy depends upon two basic operations- the formation of an image on a flat surface by an optical device, and a chemical method of sentizing that surface to light so that the image can be captured permanantly.
-The first requirement was met by camera obscura, known since the 16th century and used by artists as an aid to sketching.
+The first requirement was met by camera obscura, known since the 16th century and used by artists as an aid to sketching.'
-Wedgewood was the first one to make a light-sensitive material when, in about 1800, hetreated white leather and paper with silver salt.
+'Wedgewood was the first one to make a light-sensitive material when, in about 1800, hetreated white leather and paper with silver salt.