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Details: Published: 18 November 2023; Last Updated: 18 May 2024

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professor toofaani publishers, East Lansing, MI USA is happy to announce their 73rd book

Early Hindi Film Advertisements III (1944-48)

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 this book, we present more than 870 images of early talkies ads. 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.

This book, third in the series, covers 1944-48.

Size by 9, pages 285, black and white

First few pages may be read here, as usual

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Details: Published: 11 April 2023; Last Updated: 18 May 2024

NOTE: The book is available on the following websites

pothi.com and notionpress.com

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professor toofaanii publishers, Lansing, MI USA is happy to announce their 55th book

Hindi Films The Stars of Silent Films Hindi Films Stars Series: Part 1
by
Sheo Khetan

In this book the author discusses the Silent Era of Indian cinema. He introduces us to dozens of long-forgotten stars, their basic information, their life and their films. It is fully illustrated with scores of pictures from books, magazines and films.

This is his 6th book. It was earlier published by Vinay Aditya, his friend from IITK. The present edition is an imprint of professor toofaanii publishers, Lansing, MI USA

Paperback, 122 page, BW interior, Rs 450 (India), $5.95 (International).

First ten pages may be read here.