Wednesday, May 2, 2012

which was the Name of First Cinema Hall built in India ?


 1 Opera house, Bombay
 2 Elphinstone Picture Palace.Culcutta
 3.Strand,Bombay
 4.Gaiety , Bombay






Ans : 2




J.F. Madan moves from screening films in cramped tents to a proper movie theater. The Elphinstone Picture Palace becomes the first permanent cinema in Calcutta. Still standing, it is today known as the Chaplin Cinema


First Cinema:
The First Cinema hall in India as built by J.F. Madan in Calcutta in 1907 and it was named Elphinstone Picture Palace.Calcutta

 
 Jamshedji Framji Madan, a businessman originally from Bombay sets up a makeshift movie theater in a tent in Maidan, Calcutta, using equipment acquired from the Pathé brothers in Paris. Exhibition soon becomes a regular business proposition.

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