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Pre-Independence Indian Cinema

by Tuggingonmoustaches
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Pre-cinema age


Still from Delhi Durbar (1903)

Telling stories from the epics using hand-drawn tableaux images in scroll paintings, with accompanying live sounds have been an age old Indian tradition. These tales, mostly the familiar stories of gods and goddesses, are revealed slowly through choreographic movements of painted glass slides in a lantern, which create illusions of movements. And so when the Lumiere brothers’...


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