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Bollywood – Year by Year – 1907

Important Events J. F. Madan opens the Elphinstone Picture Palace in Calcutta, the first of his cinema chain.

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Bollywood – Year by Year – 1906

Important Events J.F. Madan’s Elphinstone Bioscope Co. dominates indigenous film production.

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Bollywood – Year by Year – 1905

Important Events J. F. Madan turns producer with Jyotish Sarkar’s film of a protest rally against Partition

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Bollywood – Year by Year – 1904

Important Events Manek D. Sethna starts the Touring Cinema Co. in Bombay, showing The Life of Christ (two reels).

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Bollywood – Year by Year – 1903

Important Events H.S. Bhatavdekar and American Biograph film Lord Curzon’s Delhi Durbar, marking the enthronement of Edward VII.

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Bollywood – Year by Year – 1902

Important Events J. F. Madan launches his bioscope show in a tent on Calcutta’s Maidan, the foundation of a massive exhibition and distribution empire which dominated silent Indian, Burmese and Sri Lankan cinemas.

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Bollywood – Year by Year – 1901

Important Events Hiralal Sen’s Royal Bioscope establishes film exhibition alongside the commercial theatre in Calcutta, filming extracts from plays. H.S. Bhatavdekar films the landing of Sir M. M. Bhownuggree and the arrival (returning from Cambridge University) of Sir Wrangler Mr R. P. Paranjpye.

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Bollywood – Year by Year – 1900

Important Events Major Warwick establishes a cinema in Madras. F. B. Thanawala’s Grand Kinetoscope newsreels establish the genre’s commercial possibilities. Footage of the Boer War is released at the Novelty Cinema, Bombay.

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Bollywood – Year by Year – 1899

Important Events H.S. Bhatavdekar films a wrestling match in Bombay’s hanging gardens.

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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 ...

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