The collection of world classical movies considered as the milestone of the film industry was inaugurated here on Thursday at Swami Vivekananda library.The new collection of classical cinema was launched to mark the seventh foundation day of Swami Vivekananda library.The collection of the international classical movies has made their place at the movie zone of the library.Notably, already there was a collection of 3000 classic movies from across the world and now as many as 30 movies have been added to the movie zone of the library for the library members.
Interestingly, these movies belong to the initial years of the film industry, from the movies released in 1920 to the movies released in 1944 all are there in the collection.The movies namely, 'The Birth of a Nation (1915),' 'The Cabinet of Dr Caligari (1920)', 'The General (1927)', 'Blackmail (1929),' 'Pandora Box (1929), 'King Kong (1933),' 'A Night at the Opera (1935)', 'laura (1944)', 'Duck Soup (1933), 'The Public Enemy (1931)', 'Battleship Potemkin (1921), 'Metropolis (1927)', 'Triumph of the Will (1935)' , 'Paths of Glory (1957)' and many other movies of different genres are in the collection.
Informing about the classical cinema collection manager of the library laxmi Sharan Mishra informed that all these movies are about 90 years old and hold a special place in the world of cinema.These movies have been listed as the most watched movies of its time yet the least known among the young generation nowadays.These selected movies have been launched especially for the members of the library, they can issue these movies anytime and watch them, he added.