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Video cinema, exhibition of moving pictures given by means of VCR/VCP and a video projector falls within the definition of video cinema, Shankar Video v. State of Maharashtra, AIR 1993 SC 2111 (2118). [Bombay Cinemas (Regulation) Act, 1953, s. 9]...
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...
Television
Television, the word 'television' in the expression 'through the medium of television' in rule 2(f-6) of Maharashtra Cinemas (Regulation) Rules, 1986 cannot be construed in the narrowest sense to mean a television set and has to be given the first meaning assigned to the said word in the Concise Oxford Dictionary, namely, a system for reproduc-ing on a screen visual images transmitted by radio signals, Shankar Video v. State of Maharashtra, AIR 1993 SC 2111 (2115): (1993) 3 SCC 696....
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