Azad Rahman’s musical collections now in Film Archive

Eminent music director and lyricist Azad Rahman’s essential musical instruments were handed over to the Bangladesh Film Archiv.

Eminent music director and lyricist Azad Rahman’s essential musical instruments and his collections were handed over to the Bangladesh Film Archive on Tuesday by his wife singer Selina Azad.

These equipments were taken from Azad Rahman’s Movietone studio.

Director General of the Bangladesh Film Archive, M Kamruzzaman, received the following equipment from Azad Rahman’s studio Movietone, and transferred them into the Film Archive’s museum: a 35mm projector machine, a mixer machine, a 35mm portable editing machine, a 16mm portable editing machine, a new-man microphone, 8mm projectors with monitors, a typewriter from the contemporary era, sound boxes, a transistor TV receiver, an audio reverb processor, an equalizer (multi-effect processor), a mini audio mixer, amplifiers, MP3, 02 guitars, projector amplifiers, microphone stands, Long play (LP), Long play (LP) medium, Long play (LP) short, various song spool tapes small/large, 16mm camera, Nagra three, eight-track cassette recorder, digital console, cassette recorder, various types of audio cassettes, CDs, DVDs, Betacam, books on Bengali classical music training, and Sony digital cameras, said a press release.