Filmindia (1941)

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A Film Rontance Mr. D. B. Divekar, the Chief Lahoratorian, has had a long experience and the necessary foreign training to guarantee every type of work and give it a technical excellence and efficiency. Away from the star spangled glamour of film making, works a team of technicians whose job it is to guide the film on its hazardous journey from studio to screen. Follow us on this thrill packea trek through an unknown chapter of film life. In The mysterious Dark Rooms Where Between The Red And The Green Lights Thrills And Kisses Take Shape. Conjure up in your mind a picture of the various stages of modern film production. Chances are that your mental pictures will be mostly confined to glamorous film stars, brilliantly lig'hted studios, mobile camera units, a host of studio attendants and make-up artists, burly directors and producers and also air-conditioned, acoustically corrected cinema theatres equipped with a battery of costly talkie projectors. It is very probably that you will take a big jump over a very important stage of film making; and we do not blame you for it because not 2 per cent, of a cinema audience are aware of the tremendous amount of fascinating work that goes between "shooting" and "projection." Skilled technicians with long experience handle this highly specialized work of film processing. On their ability depends the technical excellence of the finished pictuie. Yet, their names never appear on the introductory title-pieces of the film you see. Surely, you would like to know all about this interesting chapter in the romance of film. . . .the stage of film making that transforms a blank strip of celluloid into a moving and talking picture packed with a bigger dose of drama than would be found in any human life. In this article we take you behind the scenes, as it were, at India's greatest film processing establishment — Famous Cine Laboratory. So that you may better understand film processing technique, here is the principle of the Talking Picture briefly outlined for you: — Just like an ordinary camera the cine camera records the light image on the negative -raw film. A microphone is placed near the subject to pick