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Hiralal Sen (Bengali:হীরালাল সেন) (1866 – 1917) was a Bengali photographer generally considered one of India's first filmmakers. He is also credited with creating India's first advertising films and quite possibly India's first political film. A fire in 1917 destroyed all of his films. Image File history File linksMetadata HiralalSen_FlowerofPersia_DancingScene. ...
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Bangla (বাংলা, IPA: ) or Bengali is an Indo-Aryan language of East South Asia, evolved from Sanskrit and Prakrit. ...
The Bengali people are the ethnic community from Bengal (divided between India and Bangladesh) in Indian subcontinent with a history going back more than two millennia. ...
The film director, on the right, gives last minute direction to the cast and crew, whilst filming a costume drama on location in London. ...
Billboards and street advertising in Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan, (2005) Advertising is the business of drawing public attention to goods and services, performed through a variety of media. ...
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Early life
Hiralal Sen's native home was in Manikganj, approximately 80 km from Dhaka, the present-day capital of Bangladesh.[1] Although he was the son of a successful lawyer of a zamindar family of that region, he grew up in Calcutta.[1] In 1898, a film troupe en route to Paris screened a certain Professor Stevenson's short film along with the stage show, The Flower of Persia at the Star Theatre in Calcutta.[2] Borrowing Stevenson's camera, Sen made his first film, "A Dancing Scene" from the opera The Flower of Persia. [2] With assistance from his brother, Motilal Sen, he bought an Urban Bioscope from Charles Urban's Warwick Trading Company in London.[2] In the following year, with his brother, he formed the Royal Bioscope company.[2] Manikganj is a district in central Bangladesh. ...
Dhaka (previously Dacca; Bangla: ঢাকা ḌhÄkÄ), population 12,560,000[1] (2005 UN projection for statistical metropolitan area), is the capital and largest city of Bangladesh. ...
Zamindar, also known as Zamindari, or the Zamindari System (Persian: زمیندار) were employed by the Mughals to collect taxes from peasants. ...
This article is on Calcutta/Kolkata, the city. ...
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The Urban Bioscope, also known as the Warwick Bioscope was a film projector developed by Walter Isaacs in 1897 for Charles Urban of the Warwick Trading Company. ...
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Creative years In a creative career that extended up to 1913, Hiralal Sen made over forty films.[3] Most of the films he made depicted scenes from theatrical productions played at Amarendra Dutta's Classic Theatre in Calcutta. At that time raw film was imported into the country. [2] Between 1901 and 1904, he produced many films for Classic Theatre including Bhramar, Hariraj, and Buddhadev.[2] His longest film, produced in 1903 and titled Alibaba and the Forty Thieves, was also based on an original Classic Theatre performance.[2] [1] However, not much is known about this feature film since it was never screened. [1] He also produced a number of advertising films and newsfilms taking commissions. [2]. Having made two films advertising Jabakusum Hair Oil and Edwards Tonic, he may have been the first Indian to use film for advertising purposes.[1] Undeveloped Arista black and white film, ISO 125. ...
A reel of film, which predates digital cinematography. ...
India's first political film A film documenting the Anti-Partition Demonstration and Swadeshi movement at the Town Hall, Calcutta on 22nd September 1905 is generally considered India's first political film. [1][3] In 1905, it was advertised as a "genuine Swadeshi film of our own make" and ended with the rallying cry for freedom, Vande Mataram.[1] Partition of Bengal, 1905 was made on 16 October 1905 by then Indian vice roy Lord Curzon. ...
The Swadeshi Movement, part of the Indian independence movement, was a successful economic strategy to remove the British Empire from power and improve economic conditions in India through following priciples of swadeshi (self-sufficiency). ...
Vande Mataram (Bangla or Bengali language: বনà§à¦¦à§‡ মাতরম Bônde Matorom) is the national song of India. ...
Later years Royal Bioscope made its last film in 1913. Hiralal Sen's later years were filled with disappointment and economic hardship.[1] Jamshedji Framji Madan of the Elphinstone Bioscope Company had long surpassed him in terms of success. To compound his misery, he was also suffering from cancer. A few days before his death in 1917, a fire broke out destroying every film he ever made.[1][2][3] Cancer is a class of diseases or disorders characterized by uncontrolled division of cells and the ability of these cells to invade other tissues, either by direct growth into adjacent tissue through invasion or by implantation into distant sites by metastasis. ...
Notes - ^ a b c d e f g h i Teachers’ Medicare Benevolent Fund (2005-12-31). Hiralal Sen (in Bengali) (HTML). Retrieved on 2006-11-01.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i McKernan, Luke (1996-12-31). Hiralal Sen (copyright British Film Institute) (HTML). Retrieved on 2006-11-01.
- ^ a b c Bandopadhyay, Samik (1995). The Early Years of Calcutta Cinema IN Sukanta Choudhury edited: Calcutta, The Living City, Vol II. Calcutta: Oxford University Press, 293-94.
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