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Brief history of Indian cinema By UrooJ, aligarians.com, Mid-2000 Aligarians
History of Indian Cinema Bollywoodvillage
1886
In 1886 the Lumiere Brothers Cinematographe unveiled six soundless short films at Bombay's Watson's Hotel. Soon after, Hiralal Sen and H.S. Bhatavdekar started making films in Calcutta and Bombay, respectively. Like Lumiere Brothers Bhatavdekar made India's first actuality films in 1899. Though there were efforts at filming stage plays earlier India's first feature film Raja Harishchandra was made in 1913 by Dadasaheb Phalke who is known as the Father of Indian Cinema.
1907
1907 : J.F. Madan opens the Elphinstone Picture Palace in Calcutta, the first of his cinema chain. Pathe establishes office in India.
1908 : Abdulallay Esoofally, a South Asian and Singaporean traveling showman starts exhibiting in India.
1910
1910 : Dadasaheb Phalke attends a screening of The Life of Christ at P.B. Mehta’s American - Indian Cinema and decides to become a filmmaker himself.
1911 : Anandi Bose, Debi Bose and others start the Aurora Cinema Co. showing films in tents as part of a variety bill. The Coronation Durbar of King George V held in Delhi is filmed by several Indians. (S.N. Patankar, Hiralal Sen, Madan Theatres)
1912 : Two amateurs N.G. Chitre and R.G. Torney attempt a narrative film, about 1500 feet long, of a play - Pundalik.
See also
Indian cinema: historical outline Covers the era before the first Indian feature film
CinemaScope and 70mm films Mainly about the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s.
70mm films in India/ South Asia I.e. Part 2 of this article. Mainly about the 1960s and 1970s.
Cinerama theatres in India, Pakistan, Sri LankaMainly about the 1960s.
Colour films in South Asia: 1—South Asia as a whole.
Colour films in South Asia: 2 (Indian Cinema)—India as a whole.
Colour films in South Asia: 3-- Hindi-Urdu films. Mainly about the 1950s and 1960s.
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