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India To-morrow Monday 7th September 1931

1931

The aim to-day is not the change in the pesonnel of the administration nor even the transference of the politcal power or the driving away of the foreigner but the establishment of a government of the people by the people and for the people. [...] (l) the preconception of a theme and plan of scenerio for the expression of the theme with the collection and choice of the resources for the Cinema and (2) then the methods of expressing the theme by the actual process of taking the films photographically according to the plan set out in the scenerio and (3) lastly the assembling or 'montage' of the individual pieces of cellulofds bearing the [...] In the former case the film appeals through the vision of images on the screen softened and emphasised by an accompaniment of music ; that is to say the minds of the audience are tuned through the eye the music playing the part of a subconscious supplement aiding and accelerating the smooth reception of images by virtue of its inherent power of benumbing influence. [...] In the latter case the simultaneity of sight of the images on the screen and the reproduction of dialogues and voices of those images make a joint appeal to the senses through both the organs of eye and ear. [...] The inelasticity of the regulations governing the every day life of the University this desire for meticulous interference by officers of the government who somtimes take-their revenge of defeat in the Senate under the spacious cloak of tbeir respactive government office add to the difficulties of the University regime : self-respect is sorely tried in the balance and is found wanting; the ac
history
Pages
36
Published in
Bangladesh
SARF Document ID
sarf.120262
Segment Pages Author Actions
Presidential Address at the All-Calcutta Students’ Conference
219-231 Acharjya Kripalani view
The Visual and the Dialogue Films
232-237 Gopal Ray view
Another Opinion
238-240 unknown view
The Government and the University of Calcutta. II
241-244 Pramatho Banerjee view
A Chapter of Unpublished Military History of Bengal
245-248 Gurudas Roy view
Collection
249-250 Robert Naumburg view
Appeal to Students
251-251 unknown view
Our Point of View
252-253 unknown view
Notes
254-254 unknown view

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