Working practice

Content Description Archival material related to the work of the Centre for Development of Instructional Technology (CENDIT), an experimental AV media organisation based in New Delhi. The collection includes printed items such as training manuals, brochures, newsletters, audio-visual education guides, symposium proceedings, internal journals (Nigah, Clips), and technical booklets on low-cost printing and video production. Dated between 1974 and 1998, these materials document CENDIT’s engagement with community...

Scope and Contents This photo collection created by Nirmal Gupta dates from 1984 to late 1990s and features him at work in a range of studio and field settings. Several photos show him in his preferred role as a cinematographer, showing video equipment of the times and other members of the AV crew. Another set of photographs of him show him working on multi camera indoor shoots with live audiences, or with music / dance performances. A sequence of outdoor photographs show him with camera crew on a boat during...

Scope and Contents The Raju Sharma collection consists of two textbooks on learning electronics in Hindi, a book created at CENDIT, a one page note on CENDIT’s work in Community video and two handwritten notebooks containing notes, circuit diagrams, line drawings and tables that showed how he made sense of the world of video and electronics that he was part of.Also part of the collection are 18 colour and 2 B&W photographs that emerge from his years at CENDIT. Of specific interest are a series...

Scope and Contents This photo collection, created by Shubha Gupta, covers her working life at the Centre for Development of Instructional Technology (CENDIT) from August 1974. After ten years at CENDIT, she became an independent film professional, producing and directing video films for various agencies in India and other countries in South Asia. Photos from the mid 1970s show her at training sessions at CENDIT. Outdoor photos from the mid-1980s show her as part of a field crew along with a camera assistant....