*    The first gramophone record is released by Gramophone & Typewriter Ltd., Belgatchia.

*    Bhai Vir Singh’s Punjabi novel, Sundri is published.

*    Two Italians, Colorello and Cornaglia, organise film shows in tents at the Azad Maidan, Bombay and J.F.Madan’s tent cinema at the Calcutta Maidan

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*    Hiralal Sen starts making films.

*    Amritlal Bose screens a package of ‘actualities’ and ‘fakes’ at the Star Theatre, Calcutta, with plays and variety entertainments.

*    The multinational Warwick Trading Co. commissions Panorama of Calcutta newsreel. Other films include Poona Races and Train Arriving at the Churchgate Station (by Andersonoscopograph).

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