Publisher's Synopsis
As one of the most understudied models of personal expression and public encounter, this publication reveals the pluralistic and raw visual samplings of Filmi Jagat (the Cinema Universe), a discovered scrapbook that is reproduced in entirety as plates following three exploratory texts. It includes clippings from film magazines, song booklets and advertisements produced between the 1930s and '40s. Therein emerges an intimate and fragmented history of early Hindi film from the pre-Independence period.
