 The 1925 silent film directed by Sergei Eisenstein, "The Battleship Potemkin" was the first film screened at the film society, which over the years developed the reputation of having the "most cine-literate audiences in the country"..It was revived in 1956 with the efforts of stalwarts like Dasgupta, Vijaya Mulay, Diptendu Pramanick and Satyajit Ray.Today it is seen as an important harbinger of New Wave cinema in India, as it allowed first hand access to world cinema to local viewers and in time started the film society movement in India.