Bioscope in India: now just kiddy entertainment

Before there was television and the Internet, there was the Bioscope. To bring images of one’s favourite movie stars to the neighbourhood - peppered with music from the Talkies themselves. For the uninitiated, a Bioscope is a decorative hand-driven projector that has a low watt bulb attached behind the reel. As the handle turns, the reel moves. The person viewing the reel from a fixed lens gets to watch images moving by, often accompanied with music. You can see full fledged films, or posters of stars stuc