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Title
The Making of Alam Ara
Description
B.D Garga writes about the making of Imperial Film Co.’s ‘Alam Ara’, the first talkie produced in India and his conversations with Ardeshir Irani, the director. Irani mentions his inspiration as Universal’s ‘Show Boat’ a 40% talkie. Irani and Rustom Bharucha picked up rudiments of sound recording from Wilford Deming Jr. who assembled the Tanar single system recording equipment at the Imperial studio. Irani mentions the lack of soundproof stages and the restrictions posed by the proximity of the studio to the railway tracks, to circumvent which they shot around the night time. The article as it appears in Cinema Vision India has an advertisement of Tanar single system recording device.
Source
Cinema Vision India
Publisher
Cinema Vision India, Vol.1, No.2, April 1980, pp.11-12
Contributor
The Media Lab
Citation
B.D Garga, "The Making of Alam Ara," in Sound Cultures in Indian Cinema, Item #1, http://sounds.medialabju.org/index.php/items/show/1 (accessed November 14, 2024).
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