1898: Key Events

• 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

• 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).