Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of K.D. Brothers

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Jun 23, 2012, 2:09:45 PM (12 years ago)

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Trupti

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K.D. Brothers

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+'''K.D. Brothers'''
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+Often described as India’s largest film importers
+in the early silent era, the company, not well
+documented because of its early closure, was
+apparently owned by Krishnadas Dwarkadas.
+By 1917 the company was well known as
+importers of projectors and raw stock, with
+branches in Calcutta and Benares. Its
+advertised film imports in the Bombay
+Chronicle include William Fox’s A Wife’s
+Sacrifice (1919), the Gaumont Gazette and, in
+1921, independently made newsreels showing
+events connected with the Swadeshi
+agitations: e.g. Collecting Foreign Clothes in the
+Streets of Bombay, Enthusiasts on their way to
+the Bonfire near the Elphinstone Mills and
+several shots of Gandhi and Maulana Shaukat
+Ali. By the early 20s, K.D. Brothers mainly dealt
+with newsreels such as Chimanlal Luhar’s
+early work. Probably starting with tent
+bioscopes, by the early 20s their interests
+expanded to include two of Bombay’s frontline
+theatres, the Globe and the West End. An
+advertisement saying that the West End would
+release ‘no serial and no Indian film’ while the
+Globe would show the ‘best of serial chapter
+plays and the pick of Indian productions’,
+clearly reveals their twin distribution interests.
+Among the Indian films they distributed, within
+India and abroad (foreign distribution was for a
+while controlled by A. Narayanan) were
+Hindustan Cinema and Bharat films, the first
+two Dhiren Ganguly films and Suchet
+Singh’s Narasinh Mehta (1920).
+
+[[Glossary]]