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professor toofaanii publishers, East Lansing, MI USA is happy to announce their 115th book
Hindi Film Reviews (1931-1950) by
Arunkumar Deshmukh
The author has been writing reviews on about 800 films that he saw over the years. During the 40s and the early 50s, many films of the 30s were shown as Morning shows in theatres at reduced rates. He tried hard not to miss them. He saw many films in Nepal and Dhaka. He saw "New Theatre Film Festival" in Calcutta twice. In Bombay there were "Prabhat Film Festival" and "Minerva Film Festival". He attended them and saw films many of which are no longer easily available.
These reviews are based on his notes, writings and many references.
Paperback, 6 by 9 in, 126 pages.
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professor toofaanii publishers, East Lansing, MI USA is happy to announce their 119th book
Early Hindi Film Photo Gallery IV (M)
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-L. This book covers M.
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, 131 pages
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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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