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Pakistani Film Ephemera Collection

The Pakistani Film Ephemera Collection contains posters and film booklets produced from the second half of the twentieth century forward. The collection was compiled by Mr. Umar Ali of Multan. The project to digitize and describe the collection of more than 3,000 film posters has been a three-year endeavor in partnership with the Mushfiq Khwaja Trust for the Advancement of Knowledge and Culture in Karachi. In addition to the film posters, related film booklets (790 total) are available for in-person use and can be discovered in Princeton's catalog. Researchers who can visit Princeton in person may also want to explore a collection of 52 censor certificates.

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The Pakistani Film Ephemera Collection at Princeton joins Princeton's other film-related digital collections, including the Middle East Film Posters & Lobby Cards Collection. 
The Pakistani posters and film booklets were described over a three-year period - posters total more than 3,000 and film booklets total 790. The languages represented in the collection include Urdu, Panjabi, Bengali, Hindi, Pashto, and Saraiki.  
This collection represents the labor of one collector, Mr. Umar Ali, who like other collectors of Pakistani cinema ephemera, has demonstrated an enthusiasm and love for film over years of collecting. The purposes of the materials in the collection were to advertise coming attractions and to publicize the actors and songs related to each film. 

Team

At Princeton University Library:
Ellen Ambrosone, South Asian Studies librarian and Project Lead
Eli Boyne, Preventive Conservator
Lia Contursi, Team Leader for Non-Roman Script Languages
Kimberly Leaman, Library IT Project Manager
Roel Muñoz, Library Digital Imaging Manager
Fiza Shahzad, Graduate Student in History at the University of Pennsylvania and Physical Processing Assistant
Tom Wilson, Facilities Manager
Thanks also go to Library leadership who have supported various aspects of the project from its initial phases to now. 
In Pakistan:
Nasir Javaid, Executive Director of the Mushfiq Khwaja Library and Trust and Digitization and Metadata Partner
Simply put, this project would not have come to fruition without the dedicated partnership of Nasir Javaid, who identified the collection, surveyed its quality and scope, and took on the labor of digitizing and describing the posters and creating MARC records for the film booklets. Nasir and his team have applied careful and expert knowledge to the digitization and description of this material and are critical partners in preserving this important record of cultural heritage. 

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Princeton University Library claims no copyright governing this digital resource. It is provided for free, on a non-commercial, open-access basis, for fair-use academic and research purposes only. Anyone who claims copyright over any part of these resources and feels that they should not be presented in this manner is invited to contact Princeton University Library, who will in turn consider such concerns and make reasonable efforts to respond to such concerns. More information can be found at this link. 

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[Identification of item], Pakistani Film Ephemera Collection, Princeton University Library. 

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Copyright

Princeton University Library claims no copyright governing this digital resource. It is provided for free, on a non-commercial, open-access basis, for fair-use academic and research purposes only. Anyone who claims copyright over any part of these resources and feels that they should not be presented in this manner is invited to contact Princeton University Library, who will in turn consider such concerns and make reasonable efforts to respond to such concerns.

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[Identification of item], [Sub-collection name (if applicable)], Pakistani Film Ephemera Collection Collection, Princeton University Library.

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