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• TRACING PHALKE
  ...covered the [[‘Anti-Partition day’]] in [http://www.kolkataonline.com Calcutta] in [[1905]], [[Dabi Ghosh]] who worked for [[Aurora Cinema Company’s]] t ...dan, Kohinoor, Maharastra etc. – had already come up, both in Bombay and Calcutta. Except Maharashtra’ the majority o producers had started producing film
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• In the Age of Silence
  In Calcutta, HIRALAL SEN photographed scenes from some of the plays being performed at When Jamshedji Framji Madan (1856 - 1926) launched his bioscope in a tent on Calcutta Maidan, he heralded the public exhibition of films in the country. By 1907,
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• IN THE AGE OF SILENCE
  In Calcutta, [[Hiralal Sen]] photographed scenes from some of the plays being performed ...[Jamshedji Framji Madan (1856 - 1926)]] launched his bioscope in a tent on Calcutta Maidan, he heralded the public exhibition of films in the country. By 1907,
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• Himanshu Rai
  ...which owned a private theatre. He took a Law degree from the University of Calcutta and studied with Tagore at Shantiniketan. He trained as a lawyer in London
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• Bhatwadekar,
  ...s etc. Aurora Film Corporation in fact pioneered a regular newsreel named 'Calcutta Film Gazette.'
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• Jamshedji Framji Madan (1856 - 1926)
  ...brated 12th century author of Geet Govinda, which had a run of 23 weeks in Calcutta. In the same year they filmed Prafulla, based on Girish Chandra Ghosh' succ
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• Harischandra Sakharam Bhatwadekar (popularly known as Save Dada)
  ...s etc. Aurora Film Corporation in fact pioneered a regular newsreel named 'Calcutta Film Gazette.'
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• Bombay
  ...tions to make their analyses. These are B.N. Sircar's New Theatres Ltd. in Calcutta (established in 1930), Himansu Rai's Bombay Talkies (1934) in Bombay, and P ...e distribution network. In 1918 J.F. Madan, the Parsi pioneer of cinema in Calcutta, claimed to control over one third of the 300 cinemas in India.(30) Madan h
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• “Talkies
  ...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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• INDIAN CINEMA
  ...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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• Indian Cinema
  ...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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• 1896
  ...nder the supervision of the Englishwoman, Lady Hardinge, Mr. Havell of the Calcutta School of Art, Sir Jeejeebhoy Jagannathshankar Seth, Framjee Cawas, Ibrahim Ishwari Prasad, a court artist at Murshidabad, appointed teacher, Calcutta Art School.
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• Hiralal Sen
  Calcutta, West Bengal, British India [now India]. Grand Delhi Coronation Durbar and Royal Visit to Calcutta Including Their Majesties' Arrival at Amphitheatre (1912)
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• Harishchandra Sakharam Bhatavadekar or Save Dada
  ...s etc. Aurora Film Corporation in fact pioneered a regular newsreel named 'Calcutta Film Gazette.'
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• ‘Anti-Partition day’
  ...ependent centres of activity and influence to grow up; that would dethrone Calcutta from its place as the center of successful intrigue, or that would weaken t ...f the Lieutenant-Governorship of the province of Eastern Bengal and Assam. Calcutta in Mourning
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• Tableaux form in pat
  ...and direct Kalighat style flourished in the bazaars of nineteenth-century Calcutta. Thousands of swiftly and boldly executed watercolors of gods, celebrities, ...where he first encountered it around 1910 in the riverside neighborhood of Calcutta’s famous Kali temple. By the time Dey’s article appeared in 1932, the p
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• ‘Shakuntala’
  ...'histories'. The similarity of these Natakas with English plays staged in Calcutta, was pointed out by Pandit Radhakant; and as an example of a Nataka, Jones
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• Plague
  ...lague began to be reported in Bombay, New Delhi (north central India), and Calcutta (northeast India). There were increased efforts to find and treat the sick,
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• PHALKE STRORIES
  ...ner replied, ‘I make the gold here, then they write to the laath saab in Calcutta. Then the laath saab writes to the head of the company in England, who sen ...under the supervision of the Englishwoman Lady Hardinge, Mr. Havell of the Calcutta School of Art, Sir Jeejeebhoy Jagannathshankar Seth, Framjee Cawas, Ibrahim
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• Bengali stage play
  ...ny to Calcutta and the company staged plays by Sheridan and Shakespeare in Calcutta theaters.
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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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• Himansu Rai
  ...which owned a private theatre. He took a Law degree from the University of Calcutta and studied with Tagore at Shantiniketan. He trained as a lawyer in London
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• INDIAN TELEGRAPH
  ...56 the British completed a 4000-mile Indian telegraph system. It connected Calcutta, Agra, Bombay, Peshawar, and Madras. The telegraph was the brainchild of a ...n, in 1839, he set up a 13½-mile-long demonstration telegraph system near Calcutta.
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• Ashok Kumar
  ...lal Ganguly in Bhagalpur and grew up in Khandwa. He briefly studied law in Calcutta, then joined his future brother-in-law Shashadhar Mukherjee at Bombay Talki ...t famous screen role and the film ran for over three years in a theatre in Calcutta!
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• 1861
  ...s formally inaugurated on Monday, April 1, 1935 with its Central Office at Calcutta. ...t of Government Accounts and Public Debt. The existing Currency Offices in Calcutta, Bombay, Madras, Rangoon, Karachi, Lahore and Cawnpore became the branches
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• Cylinders and sound recording/reproduction 1877
  ...s ‘sound from bangles’. Professor H Bose, the renowned businessman of Calcutta, entered into this new business of cylinder records under the banner of...
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• Indian Gramophone Records
  ...hone Company in 1899 in London. In 1902, first gramophone disc was cut at Calcutta. [Kinnear, 1994] While celebrating centenary of these historical events fr ...s ‘sound from bangles’. Professor H Bose, the renowned businessman of Calcutta, entered into this new business of cylinder records under the banner of...
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• Dadabhai Naoroji
  ...was called to attend the second session of the Indian National Congress in Calcutta, where he was elected President. He patched up a conflict between two great ...nvited for a third time to be president of the Indian National Congress in Calcutta, and he helped to patch up a conflict between the moderates and the extremi
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• 1930
  ...tions to make their analyses. These are B.N. Sircar's New Theatres Ltd. in Calcutta (established in 1930), Himansu Rai's Bombay Talkies (1934) in Bombay, and P ...e distribution network. In 1918 J.F. Madan, the Parsi pioneer of cinema in Calcutta, claimed to control over one third of the 300 cinemas in India.(30) Madan h
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• Railway
  ...l fingerprint bureau in the world was set up at the police headquarters in Calcutta. The Indian Evidence Act of 1872 was amended by Act V of 1899 to admit of f ...nesses are to be sent to the Central Committee of the London Exhibition in Calcutta."
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• Goharjaan
  'First dancing girl, Calcutta' The early records of Gauhar Jan are labelled ‘First dancing girl, Calcutta’. The word ‘first’ indicates her elevated position as the premier voc
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