* 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 [[Image(madan.jpg)]] * 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). [[[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4MaWb1BwBQ]]]