Wilford Deming Jr.’s ‘Hollywood Looks at India’ debuts as a feature in Varieties Weekly. The article focuses on the experiences in Indian cinema industry that Deming Jr. has had as an expert on sound recording, which prompted him…

An advertisement that offers R.C.A reproduction equipment in cinema houses that would convert them into talkie houses in a matter of two hours. The complete double set of R.C.A talkie projectors with operators is offered on hire by the New Theatres…

This moving image file of RCA sound recording equipment from 1937 is from the private collection of Jyoti Chaukhani. The equipment was used for talkie production at Bharat Lakshmi Pictures Ltd.

Advertisement of RCA sound reproduction equipment, "the best by every test". The equipment's marketing agency is held by a talkie distributor- the Empire Talkie Distributors- with offices in Delhi, Lahore, Karachi and Calcutta. The advertisement…

Advertisement of Western Electric Sound System in The Cinema in the form of twelve questions that an exhibitor may ask himself before installing a sound reproduction equipment. The equipment was marketed by Western Electric Co. Ltd. in Bombay.