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Published: 21 November 2024

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professor toofaanii publishers, East Lansing, MI USA is happy to announce their 131st book

Hindi Films Crew 1933-1940

Pradeep Asrani, Malini Kanth and Prof Surjit Singh

Everybody who has seen a Hindi film knows the titles sequence structure: the censor certificate, some disclaimers, some acknowledgments, the producer or the production company, the name of the film, the lead players, the character artists, a few smaller roles, perhaps animals, cars, the technicians like cinematographers, sound recorders, then editors, perhaps junior artist suppliers and the vehicle suppliers, usually ending with the lyricist, the music director, the director and the producer. There may be a mention of the music company, the studio and the sound recording system.
This huge amount of information has never been collected in systematic way so far. We have undertaken to do it, directly from the videos available.
We have avoided the information that is already included in the monumental Hindi Film Geet Kosh by Har Mandir Singh 'Hamraaz' and focused on the rest of the crew. At this time we are limited by the availability of the movies. We plan to explore other sources at a later time.

Paperback, 6 by 9, 111 pages

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Published: 20 November 2024

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professor toofaanii publishers, East Lansing, MI USA is happy to announce their 130th book

PICTORIAL JOURNEY OF HINDI CINEMA 1950

Sanjeev Tanwar

A compilation of Hindi film posters of the year 1950. A collector's item. Year-wise collection of posters, cover page images of booklets, still photographs, etc. for the pleasure of re-visiting the Golden Era of the Silver Screen. The PICTORIAL JOURNEY OF HINDI CINEMA-1950 covers all posters of Hindi films made in 1950.

Full color, US Letter, paperback, 128 pages

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Published: 20 November 2024

Last Updated: 20 November 2024

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professor toofaanii publishers, East Lansing, MI USA is happy to announce their 129th book

Early Hindi Film Photo Gallery V (N)

N Ramaswamy
Professor Surjit Singh

Until recently, the only way to access old newspapers and magazines was to visit their offices, go through many hurdles and answer dozens of questions to actually see the old collections. Mercifully, most had been converted to microfilm for the convenience of the researchers.

Thanks to the advent of the internet and the latest digital technology, quite a few newspapers and magazines have been digitized and are available without visiting the dusty old archives. However, most of the digital collections are available only after paying hefty fees.

There are some silver lines among the clouds. Many big companies like Google and Microsoft have undertaken a massive effort to digitize every available print material and put it on the internet for free. Many world libraries, associations, museums, special collections are doing the same. A huge repository of such items in the Internet Archive.

In the earlier books we presented photo galleries of filmi people from A-M. This book covers N.

We had a lot of fun working on them, to capture them and making them suitable for print, organizing them. We hope that you will also enjoy this peek into the early history of the talkies.

Paperback, 6 by 9, 141 pages

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