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Published: 23 April 2024

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As far as I can tell the first international film festival was held in Venice in 1932.

The festival is still very active. From their website

The first "Esposizione d'Arte Cinematografica" came into being in 1932 as part of the 18th Venice Biennale (from 6 July to 21 August 1932) under the auspices of Count Giuseppe Volpi di Misurata, President of the Biennale, the sculptor Antonio Maraini, General Secretary, and Luciano De Feo, General Secretary of the International Institute for Educational Cinema, based in Rome. Luciano De Feo was the very first director-selector.

It was earlier called The Exhibition of the Cinematic Arts, now simply The Venice Film Festival.

In the second festival held in 1934, they invited the Indian film industry to send information about the industry, films to be shown and photos.

It was here that the first ever Indian film to win an international honorary diploma was shown, Seeta (1933).

I will be posting some photos from the festival report.

The next photo is that of the director A P Kapur, he directed many films in the 30s.

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Published: 25 June 2024

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Har Mandir Singh 'Hamraaz' and I are happy to report that the work of amending, updating and checking of the Hindi Film Geet Kosh Volume I (1931-1940) has been completed, for now. This a major update since September 1988 when the First Edition of this volume was published (almost 36 years ago!) and incorporates all the information available to us as of now.

At this time, we have updated the Censor Certificate Information. Here is a summary of the new information added.

• The exact censor certificate date was missing, it has been provided.
• Many items such as Production company was missing or incomplete, it has been updated.
• Re-certification information of Hindi films has been added.
• Certification information of the same film in different centers has been added.
• Certification and re-certification information of the other language versions of the Hindi films has been provided.
• The other languages are Marathi, Bangla, Gujarati, Punjabi, Tamil etc.

Updated information about the Filmography and Songs will follow in due course.

The database website is

The Database Website

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Published: 19 December 2024

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Film Apradhi

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