{"id":950668,"date":"2026-08-08T06:34:48","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T10:34:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nenow.in\/?p=527680"},"modified":"2026-08-08T06:34:48","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T10:34:48","slug":"rare-1930s-manipur-film-reels-sent-to-italy-for-professional-restoration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/2026\/08\/08\/rare-1930s-manipur-film-reels-sent-to-italy-for-professional-restoration\/","title":{"rendered":"Rare 1930s Manipur film reels sent to Italy for professional restoration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"768\" height=\"431\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nenow.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/cinema.webp?fit=768%2C431&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-post-image\" alt=\"Manipur 8mm film reels\" style=\"float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;\" decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nenow.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/cinema.webp?w=768&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nenow.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/cinema.webp?resize=300%2C168&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nenow.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/cinema.webp?resize=400%2C224&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nenow.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/cinema.webp?resize=150%2C84&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nenow.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/cinema.webp?fit=768%2C431&amp;ssl=1&amp;w=370 370w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 34.9rem) calc(100vw - 2rem), (max-width: 53rem) calc(8 * (100vw \/ 12)), (min-width: 53rem) calc(6 * (100vw \/ 12)), 100vw\" \/><\/p>\n<figure><img width=\"768\" height=\"431\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nenow.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/cinema.webp?fit=768%2C431&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-rss-image-size size-rss-image-size wp-post-image\" alt=\"Manipur 8mm film reels\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nenow.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/cinema.webp?w=768&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nenow.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/cinema.webp?resize=300%2C168&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nenow.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/cinema.webp?resize=400%2C224&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nenow.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/cinema.webp?resize=150%2C84&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nenow.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/cinema.webp?fit=768%2C431&amp;ssl=1&amp;w=370 370w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 34.9rem) calc(100vw - 2rem), (max-width: 53rem) calc(8 * (100vw \/ 12)), (min-width: 53rem) calc(6 * (100vw \/ 12)), 100vw\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>Imphal: Rare 8mm film reels from 1930s Manipur, featuring early documentation of local life, are being sent to Italy for professional restoration and digitisation. This collaborative initiative, led by the SN Chand Cine Archive &#38; Museum (SNCCAM) and the Home Movies Foundation in Bologna, Italy, aims to preserve endangered footage shot by pioneers Maharaj Kumar [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/nenow.in\/entertainment\/rare-1930s-manipur-film-reels-sent-to-italy-for-professional-restoration.html\">Rare 1930s Manipur film reels sent to Italy for professional restoration<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/nenow.in\/\">NorthEast Now<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">Read more \/ Original news source: <a href=\"https:\/\/nenow.in\/entertainment\/rare-1930s-manipur-film-reels-sent-to-italy-for-professional-restoration.html\">https:\/\/nenow.in\/entertainment\/rare-1930s-manipur-film-reels-sent-to-italy-for-professional-restoration.html<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imphal: Rare 8mm film reels from 1930s Manipur, featuring early documentation of local life, are being sent to Italy for professional restoration and digitisation. This collaborative initiative, led by the SN Chand Cine Archive &#038; Museum (SNCCAM) &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,20380],"tags":[438,34,319,20383,20381,20384,20382],"class_list":["post-950668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-nenow","tag-entertainment","tag-manipur","tag-manipur-news","tag-nenow","tag-northeast-news","tag-northeastnow","tag-top-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=950668"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":950671,"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950668\/revisions\/950671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=950668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=950668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=950668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}