Films Division to Spend 110 Crores on its Museum of Cinema Online Purchase of Division’s Documentaries by Next Year

A Museum of Cinema will be Films’ Division’s gift for cinema lovers in the country. The work for the Museum is going on in full swing and it is likely to be inaugurated in the Centenary year of the Indian Cinema in the year 2013. Giving this information to the media at the Media Centre here today, the Director General of Films Division (FD), Shri Kuldeep Sinha said that the estimated cost of the Project is Rs.110 crores. The museum will cover all the aspects of cinema right from the films, costumes, scripts, set designs, monographs and even film magazines.

Talking about the other new initiatives of the Films Division, Shri Sinha said that the webcast of the films made during the last 60 years will soon be done by the Division. On-line purchases of the films and documentaries can be done by next year as the facility for the same will be available. The Films Division has produced more than 8000 films during the last 60 years, and about 5000 films will be available for on-line purchase and download.

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