Dipali magazine, Issues 25-49 dates: • 21 Jun 1940. Includes an interview with Carlo Luciano Valentino, and pictures of Satyarani, Joan Blondell, Merle Oberon and others. It also contains articles on the American Red Cross, Douglas Fairbanks, and Shirley Temple. • 28 Jun 1940. Includes a feature article on Mehboob Khan Ramdan Khan, and pictures of Sonja Henie, Shirley Temple, Joy Hodges, and Aruna Das, among others. It contains articles on the movie Andhi, All-India Filmgoers’ Conference, and the Motion Picture Society of India. • 5 Jul 1940. Includes an article titled “Mysore’s First Colour Film” by Faqir Mohammed, and pictures of Manjari, Padma Devi, Norma Shearer, Vasanti, and Joan Crawford. It contains articles on Peru, and the movies Strange Cargo and Alo-Chhaya. It also contains a subscriber letter titled “Start a Cinema Library, Please!”. • 12 Jul 1940. Includes an article on the film Shuktara that was directed by Niranjan Pal, and pictures of Mona Barrie, Ann Morriss, Nibhanani, and Rabin Mazumdar, among others. It contains articles on Moti Mahal Theatres, Royal Indian Navy Film, All Assam Photographic Exhibition, and a few by-lines from Bengaluru (Bangalore). It also contains a subscriber letter titled “Hindu-Muslim Unity through Films”. • 19 Jul 1940. Includes an editorial that discusses the shortage of raw film stock in India due to the Second World War, and pictures of H.N. Mitra, Virginia Field, Molina, Minakshi, Jiben Bose, Pahari Sanyal, and Margaret Sullavan, among others. It contains articles on how the war had held up film production in America, and the significance of malaria and quinine in the First World War. It also contains film reviews of Sant Dnyaneshwar, The Grapes of Wrath, A Bill of Divorcement and Achhut. • 26 Jul 1940. Includes a feature article on cinema management as a profession, written by the Managing Director of Metro Cinema Ben M. Cohn. Contains photos of Pratima Das Gupta, Dhiraj Bhattacharyya, Pramilla, Pandit Onkar Nath Thakur, Chhaya Devi, Nazir Begum and Kay Francis. • 2 Aug 1940. Includes article by Faqir Mohammad, Chairman, Visual Instruction Committee, Mysore on his experience of interviewing movie stars in Hollywood; film reviews; news on films being made by different studios across India and news from Hollywood. Photographs include portraits of Indian actress Kokila, Hollywood actresses Dorothy Lamour and Diana Lewis, and stills from film sets. • 9 Aug 1940. Includes article by Niranjan Pal on his first time experience as director of a full-length Bengali talkie, Shuktara; news from Hollywood on combating Nazi propaganda; news on films being made by different studios across India and a review of the film Yamla Jat. Photographs include portraits of actresses Sarajubala and Pratima Dasgupta; pictures of Hollywood director William A. Wellman, actresses Helen Gilbert, Jean Muir, among others. • 16 Aug 1940. Features an article by C. Narasimharao, Director, Brindavan Productions on the film industry in South India. The editorial discusses the second Administration Report of the Indian Motion Picture Producers Association in connection with the challenges the Indian film industry faces due to government policy and the ongoing World War, and reviews of films Chingari and Woman. Photographs include portraits of actresses Kanan Devi, Lila Chitnis, Sardar Akhtar and Durga Khote and French actress Danielle Darrieux, among others. • 23 Aug 1940. Features a discussion on Film Corporation of India and provincialism; an article by H.N. Mitra titled “What is the Public Taste?” (Part 1); reviews of the Bengali film Byabadhan, and of Pramathesh Barua’s Zindagi and praise for its music by Pankaj Mallick, and an article on the silver jubilee of Bombay Talkies’ Kangan at Paradise Cinema. Includes photographs of Pankaj Mallick, Sabita Devi, the cast of the film Sardar and stills from the Clark Gable and Joan Crawford- starrer, Strange Cargo. • 30 Aug 1940. This issue’s cover page features a still from the film Doctor. Articles include, “The Problem of Intervals in Cinemas” and a piece on what Hollywood stars do on set between scenes. Includes photographs of Jamuna and Brenda Joyce and stills from Byabadhan. • 6 Sep 1940. The cover page features scenes from the movie Shap Mukti, and the editorial discusses the decision of the Bengal Motion Picture Association. Includes pictures of Bette Davis, Elizabeth Earle, Peter Lorre, Rochelle Hudson, and Pahari Sanyal. • 13 Sep 1940. Includes an article by Faqir Mohammed on his studies in China and Japan, and pictures of Sumati Gupte and Shahu Modak. • 20 Sep 1940. Includes an article by P. K. Sen on the topic of Realism in modern films, and another article by P. V. Vaskara Rao titled “Propaganda in Telugu Films” that reflects on films that tackle societal problems without much thought or self-reflection. Contains pictures of Kanan Devi, Pahari Sanyal, Rita Hayworth, Geraldine Fitzgerald, and Irina Baronova, among others. • 27 Sep 1940. Includes the second part of H. N. Mitra’s article titled “What is The Public Taste?”. Contains photos of Robert Montgomery, Judy Garland, Meher Sultana, Sigrid Guire, John Wayne, Gloria Jean, and Tyrone Power. Dipali’s special Puja Souvenir Issue for the year 1940 (dated 4 Oct 1940). Cover page (coloured) features the titular animated character from Walt Disney’s Pinocchio. Includes articles and letters from George J. Schaefer, N. C. Laharry, K. S. Daryani, Richard Thorpe, Prafulla Roy, Niranjan Pal, Myrna Loy, Sudhirendra Sanyal, Michael Curtiz, Jeanette Mac Donald, Gregory Ratoff, N. Bulchandany, N. T. Dixshit, Faqir Mohammed, Nirmal K. Bhattacharjee, Deanna Durbin, Wally Westmore, Rochelle Houston, Sheikh Iftekhar Rasool, Ben M. Cohn, A. C. Thompson, and B. N. Mazumder. Includes photos of Uday Shankar, Khursid, Jean Arthur, Padma Devi, Carole Lombard, Frank Capra, Profulla Roy, Walt Disney, Patricia Ellis, Bette Davis, Chhaya Devi, Sisir Bhaduri, Molina, Kanan Devi, P. C. Barua, Lalita Pawar, and Mary Grace Martin, among others. The back cover features a color advertisement of Osa Johnson’s film I Married Adventure. • 25 Oct 1940. Includes an article by Sakina Iftekhar Rasool titled “The Power of Pictures”. The cover page features an advertisement for Shree Bharat Lakshmi’s film Thikadar. • 1 Nov 1940. The cover page features an advertisement for Shree Bharat Lakshmi’s film Thikadar. Contains photos of Leela Chitnis, Ashok Kumar, Allan Jones, Irene Harvey, Rosemary Lane, and Claudette Colbert. • 8 Nov 1940. Includes an article by T. S. Muthiah titled “Where South India Lags Behind”. It contains photographs of Tulsi Lahiri, Damuanna Malwankar, and Sobhana Samarth, among others. It also includes reviews of the films Forty Little Mothers, Mein Kampf My Crimes, Stardust, and Soubhagya. • 15 Nov 1940. Includes an anonymously written article titled “Miss Mayo is Dead—Long Live Miss Mayo”. It contains photos of Joe E. Brown, Mary Carlisle, Pretty Panna, Chandrabati, and Harold S. Dunn, among others; has a byline on the magician P. C. Sorcar. • 22 Nov 1940. The editorial discusses the issue of provincialism and the Film Corporation of India. Includes articles on Hollywood debutantes, V. Shantaram’s Padosi; review of the film Musafir, and educational film for children, Ditiya Path. Photographs include pictures of characters from Walt Disney’s Pinocchio and the voice artists who play them, and scenes from the film Waterloo Bridge. It also features a portrait of debutante Rekha Dey. • 29 Nov 1940. This issue features articles titled “The Keeper of Film Conscience”, “Films and Visual Education” and a synopsis of the story for Uday Shankar’s dance drama to be staged in Calcutta. Photographs include a portrait of Jyotsna Gupta, stills from the sets of Shantaram’s Padosi, among others. • 6 Dec 1940. This issue includes an article on film criticism, Uday Shankar, pre-release reviews of Hollywood films and a review of a documentary film titled “School for Soldiers”. Features photographs of Maureen O’Hara, Ann Morriss, Ronald Colman, among others. • 13 Dec 1940. Features article titled “Misuse of Music in our Films”, a review of a documentary film titled “Birth of a Rupee” and a Bengali film, Abhinetri. Photographs include portraits of Romola, Sadhona Bose, Shanta Apte, among others. • 21 Dec 1940. The cover page for this issue features an advertisement for the film Narsi Bhagat. Articles include “The Future of the Bengal Film Industry”; a letter to the editor on “Goondas and Cinema Tickets”; and a review of the film Voice of Satan. Photographs include portraits of Durga Khote, Devika Rani, Sabita Devi, and a still from the set of the film Raj Nartaki. It also contains a sketch of Uday Shankar. Other related country, regions, towns and cities provided by project holder: 'Holland. Bengal; West Bengal; Bombay; California; North Carolina; South Carolina. Calcutta; Kolkata; Boston; Rome; Bombay; Madras; Amritsar; Mysore; Lima; Berlin; Los Angeles; New York; Poona; Kharagpur; Jamshedpur'.
Extent: 25 issues containing 801 pages.
Size and dimensions of original material: Height 26.5cm, width 21.7cm, depth 0.2cm; Issue 40 Height 26.5cm, width 21.7cm, depth 0.8cm.
Condition of original material: Issues 25-49 are fragile, termite eaten, tiny holes, and yellowing pages. Issue 41 also has many pages torn in half (missing).
Publisher(s): Printed and Published by the Proprietor Bankim Ch. Chatterjea at the Dipali Press from the Dipali Office at 123-1, Upper Circular Road, Calcutta.
Editor(s): Chandrasekhar, B. K. Chatterjea, Oscar A. Fernandes, Sudhurendra Sanyal and Bankim Ch. Chatterjea.
Volume and issue number: Volume XII / Issues 25-49.
