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Panorama of Calcutta (1899)
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This is one of the earliest films to be shot in India - it was filmed in 1899.
The film apparently shows the Calcutta ghats as seen from the perspective of a boat travelling along the Hooghly river, a tributary of the Ganges.
However, although the film's title states that this is Calcutta, the footage was in fact shot in the holy city of Varanasi (also on the Ganges). The filmmaker from the Warwick Trading Company clearly had a short memory or a limited sense of geography. (Robin Baker)
This film is included on the BFI DVD of Jean Renoir's 'The River' - http://filmstore.bfi.org.uk/acatalog/info_106.html
You can watch almost 1000 other complete films and TV programmes from the BFI National Archive free of charge at the new BFI Mediatheque - http://www.bfi.org.uk/mediatheque
Tags for this video: benares BFI boats calcutta ganges hindu hooghly india kolkata raj river varanasi victorian
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| Comments for this video on YouTube |
| It is not Calcutta- ... ( 4 months ago by pyancha) |
| It is not Calcutta--it's BENARAS!! |
| Thanks for your ... ( 4 months ago by BFIfilms) |
| Thanks for your message. As you'll see from the text about the film, it was misidentified by the film production company back in 1899. |
| ITS BANARAS NOW ... ( 1 month ago by deepvaidyaa) |
| ITS BANARAS NOW VARANASI IN INDIA |
| great but you could ... ( 4 weeks ago by hotluxembourgreggae) |
| great but you could add a music no? to make it a bit more interesting |
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