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| | 2 | == East India Film Company == |
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| | 4 | Est: 1932 in Calcutta. One of the first sound |
| | 5 | studios in Bengal, set up with RCA-Photophone |
| | 6 | equipment and Mitchell cameras. Owned by |
| | 7 | B.L. Khemka. Bengali productions include |
| | 8 | films by Tulsi Lahiri (Jamuna Puliney, 1933), |
| | 9 | Naresh Mitra’s Sabitri (1933), Dhiren |
| | 10 | Ganguly (Bidrohi, 1935) and Debaki Bose |
| | 11 | (Sonar Sansar, 1936). Most prominent inhouse |
| | 12 | director was Hindi film-maker A.R. |
| | 13 | Kardar (1933-6). The studio branched out into |
| | 14 | Tamil (e.g. K. Subramanyam’s Bhakta |
| | 15 | Kuchela, 1936) and Telugu films (e.g. |
| | 16 | Pullaiah’s Savithri, 1933). Until the mid-40s it |
| | 17 | was the only fully equipped sound studio |
| | 18 | available to Tamil film-makers and was a major |
| | 19 | reason for numerous Bengali film technicians, |
| | 20 | particularly cameramen (best known: Jiten |
| | 21 | Bannerjee) working in the South, a tradition |
| | 22 | later continued by Gemini Studios. |
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| | 24 | For Ekalavya see Robi Ghosh |
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| | 26 | [[Studio]] |