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A Meeting with Miklós Jancsó, by Kumar ShahaniLibrary Artifacts
Some Landmarks of the Cinema Poster, by David RobinsonLibrary Artifacts
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In 1946, A.V. Meiyappan, the founder of AVM Studios, travelled to Karaikudi with a 12-year-old boy named R. Parameswaran, who was to join as an assistant at his new film studio there. Karaikudi, 400 km southwest of what was then Madras, was Meiyappan’s hometown.
By this time, Meiyappan had already…
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AVM Studios in Vadapalani, Chennai, was founded by A.V. Meiyappan. It became one of the many film studios in the neighbourhood called Kodambakkam.
Meiyappan hailed from Karaikuddi, and ran a store called A. V. & Sons that distributed gramophone records for HMV and Columbia in the…
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Kumar Shahani interviews Hungarian film-director, Miklós Jancsó.
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David Robinson writes on the history of cinema posters.
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Book Review of Chitra Bani: A Book on Film Appreciation by Gaston Roberge (Calcutta: Chitra Bani. 1974)
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K.B. Venu: You are being adored even by the new generation film-makers in Malayalam. Your films are noted for the variety of subjects you chose for them. And most of them happened in the 1980s. All of them were swimming against the tide. Especially movies like Mela in which a dwarf, a circus clown…
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Prabhat (1929–53), a regional film studio, was started as a collective under the political patronage of the King of Kolhapur. In 1934, it became one of the state-of-the-art studios in Asia when it shifted to Pune. This module explores the logistical, aesthetic, ideological and …
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