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professor toofaani publishers, East Lansing, MI USA is happy to announce their 92nd book
Early Hindi Film Photo Gallery II (G-J)
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 first this book we presented a photo gallery of filmi people from A-F. This book covers G-J.
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, 128 pages
First few pages here
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professor toofaanii publishers, East Lansing, MI USA is happy to announce their 87th book
RMIM Articles 2. About Films
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, 161 pages.
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86-RMIM-Articles-2-Films.pdf
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professor toofaanii publishers, East Lansing, MI USA is happy to announce their 101st book
Ramniklal Shah: An Early Studio Pioneer
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Prof Surjit Singh
Ramniklal Shah was a partner in a major studio, Mohan Studios and many famous films were shot there. For example, the Sheesh Mahal set for the 50s blockbuster Mughal-e-Azam was built there. His name is found in old books and magazines, but he is now long-forgotten. I sincerely believe that memories of such pioneers must be kept alive for future generations.
I am playing a small part in this effort and this book is the result.
Paperback 6 by 9, Black and White, 71 pages, Royalty-free, sold at printing cost.
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