FilmIndia (1939)

Record Details:

Title:
FilmIndia
Date:
1939
Publisher:
Bombay
Volume:
FilmIndia (1939)
Leaf #:
00013
Language:
English
Collection:
India and Global Cinema
Format:
Annuals
Contributor:
The Museum of Modern Art Library, New York
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
August 01, 2024
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The Father of the Indian Film Industry. Mr. D. G. Phalke. SuitcriplUu : Inland Rs. 5/• Burma £r Foreign Rs. 8/ ] Single Copy As. 6 On the Cover SHARIFA in "MOTHER INDIA'* Proprietors : Filmindia Publications Ltd., 104, Apollo Street, Fort, BOMBAY. Editor: BABURAO PATEL Vol. 5 JANUARY 1939 No. 1. LEST WE FORGET! Our film industry has completed 25 years — ■ years of struggle and progress. It has been a hard fight, nevertheless worthwhile and necessary. Those who are in the industry to-day have decided to celebrate its Silver Jubilee by organizing an exhibition and convening the Indian Motion Picture Congress during the Easter Holidays. A distinguished patriot in Mr. S. Satyamurti, M.L.A., Deputy Leader of the Congress Party has been designated to preside over the Congress and other functions. That is all as it should be and we wish every success to the forthcoming Congress and the Silver Jubilee Celebrations. But in the midst of all these celebrations, let us not forget the man who first gave life to our film industry. We mean Mr. D. G. Phalke, the father of the Indian film industry. 25 years back he struggled with the first camera, with the first picture and with the first enterprise. He was not a young man then, nor is he now. But his pioneering spirit and brilliant example