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NFAI to digitalise rare documents

Updated on: 29 January,2009 05:53 AM IST |
Vivek Sabnis |

National Film Achieves of India is spending over Rs 10 crore to digitise rare documents that trace the history of Indian cinema

National Film Achieves of India is spending over Rs 10 crore to digitise rare documents that trace the history of Indian cinema

The entire digitisation work has been outsourced to a Hyderabad-based IT company eJAS, which will complete it in about a year's time. Also, NFAI is spending Rs 3 crore in 2008-09 and would be spending Rs 7.50 crore in 2009-10 for the same.

"It is a Herculean task and will be made in one single software," said Vijay Jadhav, director, NFAI. According to Jadhav, NFAI is the one of the few places where such original documents are made available to the film lovers.
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"The documents will be updated regularly. Besides, the documents will be put in special boxes to enhance its life as it will be quite useful for people in their research work," he said. Jadhav added that NFAI also intend to digitise the rare issues of Film India, which used to get published in 1930s.
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Elaborating more on the project, Aarti Karkhanis, head of the documents in NFAI, said that scanning and finishing of each document will be done meticulously and a team from eJAS is working day and night to meet the deadline.
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Interestingly, NFAI has a rare collection of over 1.30 lakh film photographs, over 15,000 wall posters, large number of booklets that have songs, film pamphlets and press-clippings on innumerable films.

"The idea is to create a single folder for each film in which one can access photos, wall papers, pamphlets and everything related to that particular movies at a go," said Karkhanis.

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