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| 12/12 - | The Durbar at Delhi, the first major colour film production, is filmed in Kinemacolour. The event is also recorded by Hiralal Sen, Bourne & Shepherd, Gaumont, Imperial Bioscope, S. N. Patankar and J. F. Madan. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
| – Andai Bose and Debi Ghose found The Aurora Film Company. [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
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Having been inspired by Life of Christ, Dadasaheb Phalke sails to England. While there he visits Cecil Hepworth’s film studio in London and purchases a Williamson camera, a perforating machine, developing and printing equipment and raw film stock. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Pundalik, India’s first fiction film, premieres in Bombay. Based on a play by Ramrao Kirtikar, it is co-directed by Nanabhi Govind Chitre and Ramchandra Gopal Torney and filmed on a Bourne & Shepherd camera. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Dhundiraj Govind Phalke’s four-reel Raja Harishchandra premieres at the Olympia Theatre. It is widely believed to be the country’s first feature film, but was beaten the previous year by Pundalik. Phalke’s film is an epic saga based on a Hindu legend. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Phalke has to employ dancers to lure the public into the Coronation Theatre in Bombay to watch Raja Harischchandra. The ploy proves a success as the film runs for a month. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Dhundiraj Govind Phalke releases Mohini Bhasmasur. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 1914 | ||||
| – Dadasaheb Phalke releases Satyavan Savtri, his third film. By now, his films are so popular that distributors require 20 prints of each film instead of just one. All three of Phalke’s films are exhibited in London. Phalke also attempted to explain the film-making process in a short, How Films are Made, and later in a series of essays for the Marathi journal, Navyug. [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
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– Abulally Essoofally acquires the Alexandri Theatre in Bombay (Mumbai) in partnership with Ardeshir Irani [MORE] [ADD] |
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– R. Venkalah and R. S. Prakash build Madras’s first permanent cinema, The Gaiety. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 1915 | ||||
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– Shree Nath Patankar makes Death of Narayanrao Peshwa, India’s first historical film drama. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 1916 | ||||
| – R. Nataraja Mudaliar makes Keechak Vadha, the first full length South Indian film. [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
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– S N Patankar directs the first Indian serial, the four-part Ram Vanwas (The Exile of Shree Rama) [MORE] [ADD] |
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– Censorship comes to India when the Cinematograph Act comes into effect. [MORE] [ADD] |
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– The Kohinoor Film Co. is founded. [MORE] [ADD] |
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– Dadasaheb Phalke’s Hindustan Cinema Films Co. is founded. [MORE] [ADD] |
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- The first Bengalee owned film company, Indo British Film Co., is opened by Dhirendra Nath Ganguly. [MORE] [ADD] |
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- Bilwa Mangal, the first Bengali feature film, is made by Jyotish Bannerjee for Priyonath Ganguly and Madan theatres. [MORE] [ADD] |
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– Baburao Painter’s Maharashtra Film of Kolhapur release Sairandhri. [MORE] [ADD] |
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– Suchet Singh’s Shakuntala is released. It is the first Indian film to star a foreign leading lady, the American actress Dorothy Kingdon. [MORE] [ADD] |
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– D N Sampat forms Kohinoor Film. [MORE] [ADD] |
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– Indian Film Censor Boards are established in Bombay, Chennai, Calcutta and Rangoon. [MORE] [ADD] |
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– Ardeshir Irani founds the Star Film Company. [MORE] [ADD] |
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– Nala Damyanti, India’s first co-production (with Italy) is released. [MORE] [ADD] |