Elgin Talkies oldest cinema: Projection Room, Premises, posters
Director: Gaurav Chandelya; Cinematographer: Gaurav Chandelya
Duration: 00:14:24; Aspect Ratio: 1.333:1; Hue: 44.381; Saturation: 0.006; Lightness: 0.363; Volume: 0.193; Cuts per Minute: 20.417; Words per Minute: 21.181
Summary: Footage from WICITYTV, which was a pirate cable TV channel that ran in Shivaji Nagar, Bangalore in November 2005. Elgin Talkies is a 116-year-old decrepit cinema house in Shivaji Nagar that still uses carbon arc projectors. Older than cinema itself, it was first a playhouse, and its logbook catalogues a veritable history of early cinema from silent films to the screening of India’s first talkie, Alam Ara. Gaurav Chandelya spent 48 hours inside Elgin, clocking the daily films and changes.The film, Kahani Elgin Ki
http://chitrakarkhana.net/elgintalkies.htm was aired on local cable. (
http://chitrakarkhana.net/whycitytv.htm)
No dialog
The camera shows the projector running in the projector room. The projection light is cast on the wall.
projection light
projector
Elgin Talkies,Projector Room, Shivajinagar, Banglore
projector room
Elgin Talkies, Shivaji Nagar, Bangalore
bangalore
cinema
elgin talkies
pirate tv
projection
projectionist
shivaji nagar
wicitytv
Dialogs of the film.
The camera shows a top shot of the shops across the road from the window of the projector room. Thereafter the camera pans left and then right to a board of "elf Lubricants".The camera then zooms in the theater, and shows an infra red vision(night vision) of the film starring "Akshay Kumar" being screened in the theater.
elf lubricants
infra red vision
night vision
screened
top shot
Elgin Talkies Shivajinagar
The camera shows a top shot of the traffic on the the road outside Elgin Talkies. Across the theater are several buildings,some of them have shops.
Voices are unclear
Gaurav:This what we are finishing,we are doing to show people because they think Elgin talkies (voice is unclear).By making such a film on Elgin Talkies people will like it and and they will come. Slowly slowly families will also begin to come.
traffic
The camera shows a top shot of two people watching several film posters of the films "Hum", "Awaara Pagal Deewana", "Sanyasi", "Talaash" and "Ajnabee on the wall .The camera pans right to the ticket counter. A poster with Rs.16.00 on it,is above the ticket
window.
ajnabee
awaara pagal deewana
counter
film
hum
posters
sanyasi
talaash
ticket
ticket window
Elgin Talkies Premises Shivajinagar, Banglore
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The camera shows the roof which has brown mangalore tiles with pigeons on it.
brown
mangalore tiles
pigeons
roof
The camera shows the board of "Elgin Talkies and tilts to show a top shot of the footpath with cycles, rubber tyres, and tubes. A rickshaw is parked beside it.
board
cycles
dollies
footpath
rickshaw
rubber
top shot
tubes
tyres
The camera shows a wet landing with a staircase. There is a building in the background.
building
l anding
staircase
wet
The camera shows a man entering a passage. There are buildings across the road.
buildings
passage
The camera shows a wet landing with a staircase. There are film posters stuck on the wall and a building in the background..
landing
wet
building
film
posters
staircase
The camera moves and turns, pans up from the stairs to the building. Film posters stuck on the wall, zooms in and pans left to a boy while he is watching the film posters playfully. The young boy climbs up a pot near the side gate of the theater and calls out to somebody. The camera pans right to a man in a blue shirt as he walks in the theater premises.
playfully
top shot
The camera shows the roof which has brown mangalore tiles with pigeons on it. The camera pans right to the chimney.
pigeons
brown
chimney
mangalore tiles
roof
Man : Saab, saab(Sir,sir)
The camera shows the roof which has brown mangalore tiles with pigeons on it. The camera pans left to rows of tiles and thereafter pans sideways to a man in a brown checked shirt pointing to the inside of a room .
pigeon
rows
saab
sir
The camera shows the cinema staff attending to the projection equipment The camera pans right and zooms to a projection light that is cast on the wall and thereafter to the cinema staff opening the film gate with the film reel running.
Movie Projector
cast
cinema staff
film
film gate
projection light
reel
No dialog
Elgin Talkies,Projector Room, Shivajinagar, Banglore
equipment
projection
The camera shows the projection equipment in use.
use
Gaurav:No,no we will put this first.
The camera shows a reel being played on the projection equipment. The camera pans right to the cinema staff getting a reel of a film and putting it in the ( metal compartment-) and fixing it to the projector.
cast
cinema staff
film projector
reel
No dialog
The camera shows the cinema staff in the projection room,thereafter it pans left and shows an infra red vision( night vision) of the film playing on screen.
infra red vision
night vision
projection room
cinema
staff
Cinema staff is using the (the reels are being turned on two machines-ask ).The camera pans right to compartments with film reels.
Gaurav:Do you also work here?
Cinema Staff:first at home.
Gaurav: you do little,little work.
Gaurav:what are you doing?
Cinema Staff:the print (voice is garbled) is being returned later.
Gaurav:will you always do the same work there as you are doing here,or will you join the films, talkies?
Cinema Staff:I will stay there,I have left this this place.
Gaurav: were you working here earlier?
Cinema Staff: I was working here earlier
Gaurav: how long did you work here?
Cinema Staff:It was dependent on after school.
Gaurav:oh after the school.
Cinema Staff:after school I would come up here
Gaurav: do you know all the machines?
Cinema Staff:yes,I know all the machines
Gaurav:do you go to school?
Cinema Staff:Not now
Gaurav:How much did you study?
Cinema Staff:till seventh.
Gaurav:till seventh. After that?
Cinema Staff:after that I did not study.
Gaurav: did you not want to study or did your father tell you not to study?
Cinema Staff:I left it.
Gaurav: why?
Cinema Staff:I do not want to study.
Gaurav: do you like working better?
Cinema Staff:yes,I like working better
compartment
film
reel
The camera shows electric boards with wires,projection equipment, images and a clock hung on the wall.
clock
electric boards
images
projection equipment
wires
No dialog
The camera shows the roof which has brown clay tiles with pigeons on it and pans right.
brown
clay
pigeons
tiles
roof
Elgin Talkies Premises Shivajinagar, Banglore
The camera shows the chimney with pigeons on it.
chimney
pigeons
The camera shows a staircase with a closed door on the landing. There is a roof with tiles over it.
closed door
landing
roof
staircase
tiles
The camera shows a landing with a closed door and a staircase. There is a roof with tiles. The camera pans right to a top shot of the ladies bathroom
ladies bathroom
Gaurav:what is all this?
Cinema Staff:what?
Gaurav: this,what is all this?
Cinema Staff:this is the bathroom,ladies bathroom
Gaurav:does this door(on the landing)remain closed or does it open?this one?
Cinema Staff:when the picture starts the door is closed,when the picture is over it opens.
Gaurav: where is the gents bathroom?
Cinema Staff: there
Gaurav: that side
Gaurav:gents bathroom
Gaurav:and that?
Cinema Staff:that,I do not know
The camera shows a top shot of the ladies bathroom,the landing with a closed door, a staircase, and a roof with tiles. The camera tracks the cinema staff climbing a landing and one can view a top shot of the gents bathroom. Thereafter the camera shows a top shot of the premises.
cinema
gents bathroom
staff
top angle
Dialogs of the film.
The camera shows an infra red vision(night vision) of a hindi film screened in the theater. (Akshay Kumar,Bobby Deol and Aishwarya Rai ask Shaina)
akshay kumar
bobby deol and aishwarya rai
camera print
film
hindi
infra red vision
night vision
screening
Elgin Talkies Theater Shivajinagar, Banglore
Gaurav:is it getting over?
Cinema Staff: voice is unclear minutes are there
Gaurav:will you move away for a minute,I want to take a shot.
Cinema Staff: voice is unclear
Gaurav:here,next to me. Oh you have to see to that.
The camera shows the cinema staff attending to the projection equipment.
cinema
equipment
projection
staff
The camera shows a young man squatting on a wall,joining two electric wires. Behind him is a board of "elf Lubricants ", an electric pole and a
street light.
board
electric
electric wires
elf lubricants
joining
light
pole
street
Elgin Talkies Premises Shivajinagar, Banglore
No dialog
The camera zooms to the audience waiting in the theater premises and a young boy in jeans watching the film posters stuck on the wall. There is a steel container with a glass on a stand. Thereafter the camera pans left and zooms out to the posters on the display board.
audience
board. zoom
container
display
glass
posters
premises film
stand
steel
theater
The camera shows Khan and the cinema staff sitting on the staircase A young boy taps Khan who looks towards the camera.
cinema
sitting
staff
staircase
The camera shows audience waiting inside the theater premises and the closed doors of the theater.
audience
premises
waiting
The camera shows the closed doors of the theater and a bicycle against the wall.
bicycle wall
closed doors
theater
The camera shows the closed doors of the theater and a bicycle against the wall.
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