About this stamp
On the Stamp
A strip of film in rainbow colours curving around a globe, with the words “100 Years of Cinema” in Hindi and English, on a ₹6 stamp.
A Hundred Years of Cinema
India Post issued two stamps on 11 January 1995 for the centenary of cinema, ₹6 and ₹11, printed side by side as a pair. This one looks at the spread of cinema around the world. The Lumière brothers gave their first paid public screening on 28 December 1895, at the Salon Indien of the Grand Café in Paris, an event traditionally regarded as the birth of cinema. Its companion stamp shows early equipment. India Post’s brochure for this issue is not online, so this text draws on Wikipedia and on the stamp itself.
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