FilmIndia (1939)

Record Details:

Title:
FilmIndia
Date:
1939
Publisher:
Bombay
Volume:
FilmIndia (1939)
Leaf #:
00071
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:
June 20, 2024
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Subscription '• Inland Rs. 5/Burma €f Foreign Rs. 8/Single Copy As. 6/ GIRL ON THE COVER ILA DEVI in BAZIGAR (Ranjit) Proprietors : Filmindia Publications Ltd. 104, Apollo Street, Fort, BOMBAY. Editor: BABURAO PATEL Vol. 5 FEBRUARY 1939 No. 2. GIVE US A SQUARE DEAL With the National Planning Committee planning the industrial future of the country, it is necessary to define the place and purpose of the Indian film industry in the future planning of a new nation. • The Indian film industry is 25 years old this year. Today it employs over 40,000 people in its different branches. Over 17 crores of rupees have been so far invested in the Indian film industry. We have over 1300 cinemas spread over the country, including touring cinemas and over 40 regular film producing companies. We have nearly 85 journals and periodicals solely devoted to the industry. Every year the Indian film industry requires raw films worth over 40 lakhs of rupees. The machinery and accessories we buy from foreigners every year cost us about 20 lakhs of rupees. And with all this material, our film industry produces about 200 films per year. The industry spends every year on these pictures Rs. 2,00,00,000 at the average rate of Rs. 1,00,000 per picture. Now let us see what the industry pays out by way of taxes, duties, interest and advertisement. In 1937-38 over Rs. 2,00,000 were paid as import duty on machinery.