• is an overview of 1931 in film, including significant events, a list of films released and notable births and deaths. The top ten 1931 released films by...
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    Indian cinema is a global enterprise, and its films have attracted international attention and acclaim throughout South Asia. Since talkies began in 1931, Hindi...
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  • (1931), made in Hindustani language, was commercially successful. With a great demand for talkies and musicals, Hindustani cinema (as Hindi cinema was...
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    was released on 31 October 1931, less than seven months after India's first talking motion picture Alam Ara. Tamil cinema has been noted for its advanced...
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    movie theatre in Jakarta was the Alhamra Theatre, which opened in 1931. Indonesian cinema began dominating most movie theaters in big cities in the 1980s...
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  • 1931 January February March April May June July August September October November December Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1931. 1931 (MCMXXXI)...
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    built in 1931 as the Capitol Cinema, the current building stands on the site of an earlier film theatre, the Alpha Picture Palace. This former cinema was of...
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    Distributed by Sagar Movietone, Alam Ara premiered at Majestic Cinema, Bombay on 14 March 1931, and the screenings ran for eight weeks. Ramesh Roy, an office...
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  • Pride of Tamil Cinema: 1931–2013 is a book by the Indian film historian and producer G. Dhananjayan, detailing information about the production and release...
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    Cinema of West Bengal, also known as Tollywood or Bengali cinema, is the segment of Indian cinema, dedicated to the production of motion pictures in the...
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  • Glynn Edwards (category 1931 births)
    John Glynn Edwards (2 February 1931 – 23 May 2018) was a British television and cinema character actor, who came to national prominence for his portrayal...
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    cinema'. From 1921 to 1931 about a dozen feature films were made by Telugu people. C. Pullayya made a three-reel short film, Markandeya (1926 or 1931)...
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    The Rio Cinema is a purpose-built, two-screen, 280-seat cinema in Burnham on Crouch, Essex in the United Kingdom. The building dates from 1931. The Burnham...
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    distinct historical threads of Chinese-language cinema together with the cinema of Hong Kong and the cinema of Taiwan. China is the home of the largest movie...
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  • The Pervert's Guide to Cinema is a 2006 documentary directed and produced by Sophie Fiennes, and scripted and presented by Slavoj Žižek. It explores a...
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  • politically engaged Third Cinema in contrast to Hollywood and the European auteur cinema. In Egypt, the golden age of Egyptian cinema continued in the 1960s...
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    releasing India's first sound film Alam Ara in 1931, Irani wanted to expand his scope to South Indian cinema. Bhakta Prahlada was released on 6 February...
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    Fox Theater, Westwood Village (category Cinemas and movie theaters in Los Angeles)
    of the cinema is about 1,400. Designed by architect Percy Parke Lewis, the Fox was originally built in 1930 and first opened on August 14, 1931, in a Spanish...
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  • in 1931: 1931 was a ground-breaking year for Indian cinema. The first Hindi Talkie Alam Ara was released on 14 March 1931 in Mumbai's Majestic Cinema. The...
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    Holly Cinema was originally built for retail by E. B. Rust in 1920, and featured a Châteauesque exterior and a 30-foot by 100-foot interior. In 1931, S....
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    Talwar (1929) Cinema Girl (1930) Sher-e-Arab (1930) Prince Vijaykumar (1930) Alam Ara (1931) Draupadi (1931) - Arjuna Golibar (1931) Toofan (1931) Blood Feuds...
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  • 15, 1931. "Cinema's Art Directors." The New York Times. November 22, 1931. "Here and There in the Studios." The New York Times. August 16, 1931. "Projection...
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    German expressionist cinema (German: Deutsches expressionistisches kino) was a part of several related creative movements in Germany in the early 20th...
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    Classical Hollywood cinema is a term used in film criticism to describe both a narrative and visual style of filmmaking that first developed in the 1910s...
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    Malayalam cinema is the segment of Indian cinema dedicated to the production of motion pictures in the Malayalam language, which is widely spoken in the...
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    Alive! The Classic Cinema Saga of Frankenstein. San Diego: A. S. Barnes. ""Frankenstein" Cast Chosen". The New York Times. August 30, 1931. The Universal...
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    The cinema of Italy (Italian: cinema italiano, pronounced [ˈtʃiːnema itaˈljaːno]) comprises the films made within Italy or by Italian directors. Since...
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    The Cinema of Bangladesh, also known as Bangla cinema, is a diverse and vibrant entity, consisting of films produced across various regions in Bangladesh...
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    Picture Engineers, vol. 17, no. 4, October 1931, pp. 632–644. (available online). Crisp, Colin G. (1997). The Classic French Cinema, 1930–1960. Bloomington/London:...
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    the Gothic films Frankenstein (1931) by James Whale, Dracula (1931) by Tod Browning, and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931) by Rouben Mamoulian "a foundational...
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