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Learning in association with MAMI and Film Heritage Foundation, brings to 'Do
You Speak Cinema?' a unique educational program that aims to introducing
children to the magic of cinema, to teach them the language of the moving
image and to make them a more discerning audience in a world where they are
constantly bombarded with images. The workshop offers children a rare
opportunity to watch films on a vintage film projector and touch and feel
actual strips of celluloid film.
The workshop will take the children through a journey chronicling the birth
of cinema from the magic lantern to Muybridge to the masters of the silent
era like Edison, Melies, Dadasaheb Phalke and Chaplin. Children will also be
shown films on a 16 mm projector and will be taught that visual images can be
“read” like other texts. Every element of a visual image has meaning, all of
which affects the interpretation of the visual text.