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Home Dictionary Name: filmCultural films, indigenous films
Cultural films, indigenous films, there are two cate-gories of films, one consisting of scientific films, films intended for educational purposes, films dealing with news and current events and documentary films or what for conciseness may be called 'cultural films', and the other, of 'indigenous films'. 'The words 'indigenous films' are general and unqualified in their contents, and must include in their ordinary and accepted sense cultural as well as other films. If the two categories of films are to be construed as mutually exclusive, then it must read the words 'indigenous films' as meaning indigenous films other than cultural films, Chief Commissioner v. Brijniwas Das, AIR 1963 SC 408 (410): (1963) 2 SCR 145. [Cinematography Act, 1952, s. 12(4)]...
Cinematograph film
Cinematograph film, a 'cinematograph film' is to be taken to include the sounds embodied in a sound track which is associated with the film. S. 13 of the Copyright Act,1957 recognises 'cinemato-graph film' as a distinct and separate class of 'work' and declares that copyright shall subsist therein throughout India, Indian performing Right Society Ltd. v. Eastern India Motion Picture Association (1977) 2 SCC 820: (1977) 3 SCR 206: AIR 1977 SC 1443 (1450).Includes any apparatus for the representation of moving pictures or series of pictures. (Cinematograph Act, 1952, s. 2)Means any work of visual recording on any medium produced through a process from which a moving image maybe produced by any means and includes a sound recording accompanying such visual recording and 'cinematograph' shall be construed as including any work produced by any process analogous to cinematography including video films. [Copyright Act, 1957 (14 of 1957), s. 2 (f)]...
Feature film
Feature film, means a full length cinematograph film produced wholly or partly in India with a format and a story woven around a number of characters where the plot is revealed mainly through dialogues and not wholly through narration, animation or cartoon depiction, and does not include an advertisement film. [Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Act, 1986 (61 of 1986), s. 2 (f); See also Cineworkers and Cinema Theatre workers (Regulation of Employments) Act, 1981 (45 of 1981); (3 of 1989), s. 2(b)]...
Indigenous films
Indigenous films, the words 'indigenous films' are general and unqualified in their contents, and must include in their ordinary and accepted sense cultural as well as other films, Chief Commissioner v. Brijniwas Das, AIR 1963 SC 408 (410): (1963) 2 SCR 195. [Cinematograph Act, 1952, s. 12(4)]...
Metallised polyester films
Metallised polyester films, Films made of plastic fall in a category of their own and do not fall within the categories of articles excepted. The metallised polyester films cannot be described either as 'foils' or as sheets, Collector of Customs v. K. Mohan & Co., AIR 1989 SC 2250: (1989) Supp 2 SCC 337....
Film
Film, means a cinematograph film. [Cinematograph Act, 1952 (37 of 1952), s. 2 (dd)]...
cine film
photographic film several hundred feet long and wound on a spool used in a movie camera...
filmed
recorded on film...
Cinematograph
Cinematograph, more properly cinematograph. A contrivance for projecting in rapid succession on a screen a series of instantaneous photographs so as to give the effect of motion (The Concise Oxford Dict.). The (English) Cinematograph Act, 1909, provides that an exhibition of pictures or other optical effects by means of a cinematograph or other similar appartus for the purpose of which inflammable films are used shall not be given unless the regulations made by the Home Secretary are complied with, or elsewhere that in premises licensed under the Act (s. 1). The Act does not apply, however, to exhibitions in private houses to which the public are not admitted [s. 7 (4)]. The exhibition of films by dealers or their agents to intending purchasers or hirers does not amount to an exhibition within the meaning of the Act, Attorney-General v. Vitagraph Co., 1915 (1) Ch 206. Sunday exhibitions, see (English) Sunday Entertainments Act, 1932 (22 & 23 Geo. 5, c. 51), s. 1 The Celluloid and (Engl...
Collotype
A photomechanical print made directly from a hardened film of gelatin or other colloid also the process of making such prints According to one method the film is sensitized with potassium dichromate and exposed to light under a reversed negative After the dichromate has been washed out the film is soaked in glycerin and water As this treatment causes swelling in those parts of the film which have been acted on by light a plate results from which impressions can be taken with prepared ink The albertype phototype and heliotype are collotypes...
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