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professor toofaanii publishers, Lansing, MI USA is happy to announce their 135th book
Forgotten Artists of Early Cinema
and The Same Name Confusion
Book 3
by
Arunkumar Deshmukh
Tens of thousands of artists have contributed to Hindi cinema since 1931. Barring a few famous ones, other are long forgotten and are destined for obscurity. By sheer determination the author has obtained information on many such artists.
There are scores of others with similar names. Their biographies and filmographies are often mixed up even in well-known books and popular websites. By deep research the author has distinguished between a lot of such cases. This is his third book on these topics. Another new chapter about some unknown facts about Hindi cinema has also been added.
Paperback, 6 by 9 in, 161 pages.
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professor toofaanii publishers, East Lansing, MI USA is happy to announce their 114th book
Early Radio Artists: A Pictorial: Part II
Aftab Datta
The Indian Listener was started in December 1935, which became Akashvani in January, 1958 in India. Besides the program, the magazine had essays on music, biographies and photos of artists, reports about musical conferences etc. This is a book of images captured from the magazine. It contains photos of hundreds of radio artists, some well-known, some long-forgotten. In the first part, there were about 700 images with names from A to L. In this part II, there are more than 800 images.
Paperback, 6 by 9 in, 273 pages.
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professor toofaanii publishers, East Lansing, MI USA is happy to announce their 139th book
Early Hindi Film Photo Gallery VI (O-R)
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-N. This book covers O to R.
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, 176 pages
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