September 17th, 2010

Bollywood – Year by Year – 1898

Important Events

Two Italians, Colorello and Cornaglia, organize film shows in tents at the Azad Maidan, Bombay.

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).

Timeline