A film historian or any person interested in knowing the film history would love to hear about a place where he can ogle through old film magazines or photographs. The National film archives at Pune is the perfect place for this venture.
It was started in 1964 and is one of the largest in Asia. The building for the archive was given by the great Prabhat Films. They are having more that 10000 films in their collection from different languages, large number of scripts, photographs, posters. The 1931 issue of "The Cinema" magazine is the oldest in the lot. They are having a huge collection of rare film magazines from different languages. Same is the case with gramophone records. All these treasures were preserved in the film archive.
Even though we are having this archive, still lots of film prints were lost for ever. the prints of early malayalam films like Vigathakumaran, Balan, Njanambika are not available now
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
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