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Amongst the treasures
of the NFAI's film collection are the surviving fragments of the films
of D.G. Phalke and Baburao Painter, the silent films of Himansu
Rai and Franz Osten, a representative collection of films of the great
film companies and studios of the 1930s and 1940s such as the Prabhat
Film Company, New Theatres, Bombay Talkies, Shri Bharat Laxmi Pictures,
Minerva Movietone, Wadia Movietone, Gemini, Vijaya Vauhini and others.
Equally important are the archive's holdings of the great independent
banners which emerged after the collapse of the studio system in the
late 1940s, such as those created by Mehboob Khan, Raj Kapoor, Bimal
Roy, Guru Dutt, A.R. Kardar, L.V. Prasad and B. Nagi Reddi. Alongside
examples of the mainstream cinema, excellent prints of major works of
the authors of new Indian cinema such as Satyajit Ray, Mrinal Sen,
Ritwik Ghatak, Adoor Gopalakrishnan, Shyam Benegal, Mani Kaul, G.
Aravindan, Kumar Shahani, Girish Kasaravalli, Mira Nair and others are
also preserved by the Archive.
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