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Published: 09 February 2024

Last Updated: 18 May 2024

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professor toofaanii publishers, East Lansing, MI USA is happy to announce their 86th book

Early Hindi Film Advertisements IV (1949-60)

N Ramaswamy

Prof 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 this book, we present 600 images of early talkies ads. 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.

This book, third in the series, covers 1949-60.

Size 6 by 9, pages 178, black and white paperback

First few pages may be read here, as usual

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Published: 03 February 2024

Last Updated: 18 May 2024

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professor toofaanii publishers, East Lansing, MI USA is happy to announce their 85th book

Hindi Films: The Stars Of 1938-40 Films: Part 4

Sheo Khetan

Sheo Khetan was born in Sitamarhi, Bihar in 1949. He did his BTech from IIT Kanpur. in 1970. He came to Stony Brook, NY in September 1970 and finished MS in Mechanical Engineering. He then did an MBA in finance and continued working in the Semiconductor industry for next 32 years. In 2005, he turned to his original love, old Hindi movies. He writes books on Hindi films.
In this book the author discusses the Early Talkie Era of Indian cinema (1938-1940). He introduces us to dozens of long-forgotten stars, their basic information, their life and their films. It is fully illustrated with hundreds of pictures from books, magazines and films. This is Part 4 in the series.

Paperback 6 by 9 in, English, 172 pages.

First few pages may be read here

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Published: 01 February 2024

Last Updated: 01 February 2024

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professor toofaanii publishers, East Lansing, MI USA is happy to announce their 84th book

RMIM Articles 1. Singers

Prof Surjit Singh

As I have mentioned before, classic RMIMers ran many series for many years, there content generated at least 6,000 pages.

I had thought of compiling a big book, but considering the sheer size of the work wrote a Minibus on the 25th anniversary.

Now I am coming back to compiling books on different series. The first series is articles and this is the first book.

[I think it will take about 20 books of about 300 pages each to do the job properly.]

Paperback, US Letter, 301 pages.

The book may be downloaded from here

84-RMIM-Articles-1-Singers.pdf

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