The Aseema Trust, Chennai www.aseematrust. org in association with Kalakshetra and Gandhi Study centre
presents
"Mahatma Gandhi - 20th century prophet" 81 minutes, English narration.
at 6.30pm on 12th August 2007 at Kalakshetra.
The film is photographed by A.K.Chettiar. The 81-minute film was reportedly lost, but the original film released in 1953 in Hollywood is available with the Gandhi Museum, Madurai. A.K. Chettiar, a writer and journalist, edited a monthly magazine Kumari Malar. He learned photography in Japan and the United States and entered the film world with a primary vision of making a film on Gandhi. He started the Documentary Films Ltd. Company to produce the film and collect the footages taken earlier on the subject. After three years of travel, he collected 50,000 feet of film and produced a film of 12,000 feet length which was screened in Chennai on August 23, 1940. Among the episodes are those showing Gandhiji's participation in the All India Congress Committee meeting in India, the Round Table Conference in London, the Salt Satyagraha and the Quit India movement. The film is being screened by Annamalai of Gandhi Study Centre, Chennai.
please come for the screening. V.R.Devika
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