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Film Archives get rich with 30-hour film footage of World War II

PRECIOUS: The films also have rare footages of Mahatma Gandhi, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel and Muhhammed Ali Jinnah

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Grabs from two footages received by Pune’s National Film Archives of India from the Defence Ministry
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The National Film Archives of India at Pune has received a rare 30-hour film footage of World War II. This also contains rare footage of Mahatma Gandhi, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel and Muhhammed Ali Jinnah. The NFAI has received the footage for preservation from the Armed Forces Film and Photo Division of Ministry of Defence.

In a press release, NFAI director Prakash Magdum has informed that the rare footage includes footage from various war fronts all over the world, where British Indian troops also fought the war. He informed that it had received the footage in U-matic format and 35mm film format and NFAI has converted it in digitised format recently.

Terming this as an important acquisition for NFAI, Magdum said that this rare footage would now be safely stored in vaults in an ideal temperature and humidity condition to ensure its preservation for the posterity.

Magdum further added that NFAI was in touch with historians and authors as well as experts on World War II so that cataloging of this footage can be done. He informed that NFAI was exploring further possibility of acquiring more footage from the Defence Ministry in this regard.

He also informed that the titles of some of the footage are India Strikes, From India to Tunis, Battle of Britain, Fire Over London, A Day with Indian Troops in Egypt, Johny Gurkha: Baluch Regiment, Madras Guards, Selected Sequences from Burma Campaign. Magdum said that the film also contains some rare footage of leaders like Mahatma Gandhi, Sardar Patel, Muhhamed Ali Jinnah and others.


 

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