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Sound Cultures in Indian Cinema
The Media Lab : Jadavpur University

 

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Csystophone, “invented” by Bamadas Chatterjee, a research scholar of Calcutta University, was the preeminent indigenous talkie equipment. Csystophone talkie reproduction machine was based on Chatterjee-Sono-System and was installed at…
 

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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…
 

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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…
 

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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.