Celluloid Man

Celluloid Man (2012)

June 26th, 20122h 30min

Documentary
70%

Overview

Indian documentary about Indian film history and P. K. Nair, the founder of the National Film Archive of India and guardian of Indian cinema. He built the archive can by can in a country where the archiving of cinema was considered unimportant.


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