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• Indian Film History
  ...rings “first Bioscope” to Calcutta at the Star Theatre. “Panorama of Calcutta”- an early Indian coverage by foreign cameramen. J.F. Madan (1856-1926) launches his bioscope show in a tent at Calcutta Maidan.
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• Father of the Indian film industry
  ...eres agent and launched a tent exhibition of silent films on the Maiden in Calcutta. Madan, a Parsi importer of liquors, pharmaceuticals, and foods, well combi ...eres agent and launched a tent exhibition of silent films on the Maiden in Calcutta. Madan, a Parsi importer of liquors, pharmaceuticals, and foods, well combi
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• Setu Bandhan
  ...al, doing the role of Mandodari, requested Dadasaheb to allow her to go to Calcutta, promising to return after completing about three days' shooting of another
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• Hindi
  Mere Calcutta ke ak dost parkison Sanskrit ki purani kitabe kharidne ko bahut utsuk hain
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• Birth of Indian film industry
  ...banner into the age of sound. There were others like Madan Theatres (also Calcutta), but the names mentioned here would provide the bedrock foundation on whic ...am Daryani, a visionary financier, brought a 20 year old tabla player from Calcutta to work with the Sagar Movietone orchestra. It is to the credit of composer
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• Film in india
  ...has a country bumpkin hero Gobardhan (Das) visiting his parents-in-law in Calcutta. Making a 'No Nuisance' sign for an address, he gets lost trying to find hi ...n a Buddhist legend. It was staged on his 70th birthday at the New Empire, Calcutta. They feature a part of Arukumar Roy's documentary Of Tagore and Cinema (19
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• The Talkie Era
  ...d in the large jointfamily homes of educated Indian families, specially in Calcutta. ...in India, Universal's Melody of Love at the Elphinstone Picture Palace in Calcutta. This was the first theatre in the East to be equipped with permanent sound
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• Rameshchandra Dutt
  * Pratap Singh: the last of the Rajputs. Trans. by Ajoy Chandra Dutt. Calcutta: Elm Press, 1943. vii, 183 p.; Allahabad: Kitabistan, 1963? * Sachitra guljarnagar. Trans. into English by Satyabrata Dutta. Calcutta: Firma KLM, 1990. xxx, 146 p.
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• British rule
  ...in Bengal for seven months until Lord Amherst arrived. However, when the [[Calcutta]] Journal satirized the appointment of a Scottish minister to a post in the ...irectors issued a dispatch urging education with utilitarian principles. A Calcutta madrasa (Islamic school) was established in 1826, but only two students pas
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• PhalkeCreativeWiki:Community Portal
  Painters from Patna and Murshidabad, who flocked to Calcutta in search of work, turned out watercolors in the English manner. Although Calcutta contained a thriving mixed population since its inception in 1690, the city
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• 1882
  Telephone exchanges opened in Bombay, Calcutta, Madras
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• 1883
  Calcutta International Exhibition to encourage art wares. However while art wares we Oils, watercolours and drawings by the Calcutta Art School( a commercial enterprise run by ex students) were shown and give
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• 1884
  ...ansa visits and is entranced by Chaitanya Leela performed in Star Theatre, Calcutta. He goes into a reverie.
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• Cricket
  separate exclusive clubs in the three Presidency towns of Bombay, Calcutta
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• 1889
  ...utta' he scaled a height of 4,000 feet and won the hearts of the people of Calcutta. ...s, animal sacrifice, a large band and a tumultous gathering,, "The City of Calcutta" took off from the Oriental Gasworks Field.
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• 1898
  ...ertainments. The multinational Warwick Trading Co. commissions Panorama of Calcutta newsreel. Other films include [[Poona Races]] and [[Train Arriving at Churc
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• 1899
  Calcutta receives electricity supply , although earlier that year, the Maharaja of B
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• Songs
  ...early 1940s were the Prabhat Film Company at Pune and the New Theatres at Calcutta. The former studio's musical repertoire was shaped mainly by Bal Gandharva' New Theatres at Calcutta was one of the most elite banners of pre-independence India. The studio wit
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• Lithigraphy
  ...s and materials. This accepted view may, however, be open to doubt for the Calcutta Journal of 26 September 1822 reported that "Mr. Belnos, and Mr. de Savighna From Calcutta lithography spread rapidly to the other Presidency capitals. A government p
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• Photographs
  [[Image:Calcutta_studio_1034-35.JPG]] Calcutta Studio 1934-35
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