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As far as I can tell the first international film festival was held in Venice in 1932.
The festival is still very active. From their website
The first "Esposizione d'Arte Cinematografica" came into being in 1932 as part of the 18th Venice Biennale (from 6 July to 21 August 1932) under the auspices of Count Giuseppe Volpi di Misurata, President of the Biennale, the sculptor Antonio Maraini, General Secretary, and Luciano De Feo, General Secretary of the International Institute for Educational Cinema, based in Rome. Luciano De Feo was the very first director-selector.
It was earlier called The Exhibition of the Cinematic Arts, now simply The Venice Film Festival.
In the second festival held in 1934, they invited the Indian film industry to send information about the industry, films to be shown and photos.
It was here that the first ever Indian film to win an international honorary diploma was shown, Seeta (1933).
I will be posting some photos from the festival report.
The next photo is that of Devika Rani.
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Rajkumari with her new Singer, filmindia 1939
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When the reward program was announced in 2001, not many songs or films were there on the internet. Not too many books had been written.
Now there are a ton of Rafi songs available everywhere and hundreds of books listing Hindi film songs have been written.
Therefore the 2001 reward program is ended.
I am announcing a new Rafi Reward Program.
If you believe that you have found an unknown Rafi song, send me its information, i e, film/nonfilm, co-singers, lyricists, music directors, record numbers, as much info as you have. If I find the song listed anywhere in any book, magazine, newspaper, article, thesis, internet website, I will send you the proof that it is a known song, and you get my thanks.
If I cannot find it listed anywhere, then please send me the song in a reasonable quality. I will have it examined by RMIM experts, and, if they agree that Rafi's voice is in the song, you will get my thanks and the reward. I reserve the right to put the song and the whole story on my website and on Facebook.
Rafi from Filmfare 1954.
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