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Enjoy this magazine from the Early Talkie era (1940, 84 years ago)
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Here is the timeline:
1969: He is frustrated that he cannot find an encyclopedia of Hindi films or songs, considers compiling one.
1980: He publishes, and privately prints and sells Hindi Film Geet Kosh - Volume III.
1984-1991; He publishes the rest of the volumes, Volume 5 was compiled by Biswanath Chatterjee.
1993: He buys his first PC and immediately thinks of entering the massive data into a database.
1997: Publishes the second revised edition of Volume III by using Corel Ventura Desktop Publishing software.
1999-2017: Makes many efforts to have the massive data entered into a database, failing each time and losing lots of time and money.
2018: Decides to do it himself with help from a guy in San Diego.
2020: Database website launched with sample data.
2021: Censor Certificate Information from 1931 to 2010 made public.
2021: Volume III film and song info made public.
Har Mandir Singh 'Hamraaz' and I are happy to report that the song information from Vol IV is available today, filmography was done in 2022.
Please note that the filmography includes not only the usual information included in the Geet Kosh volumes, but also the names of Junior Artists, Background Dancers, and other actors spotted by us by watching the films.
Also, the song information includes not only the usual information included in the Geet Kosh volumes, but also the song picturization information, with the people who are singing the song on-screen and the Leading Stars, Character Artists, Junior Artists, Background Dancers, and other actors spotted by us by watching the films.
The database website is
DATABASE WEBSITE
Happy Birthday, Har Mandir Singh 'Hamraaz'!
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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 Dixit
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