Right now, we are focusing on the following three areas:

History of Indian Cinema, which involves collection of texts, films, interviews, industry papers, publicity material, etc. The collection is focused on Bengali cinema to begin with, and will eventually form a collaborative archive on Indian cinema with Sarai, Delhi, Centre for the Study of Culture and Society, Bangalore, University of English and Foreign Languages, Hyderabad, etc.

Law and the Image. New forms of communication and global commerce have thrown open the entire range of issues relating to property and authorship, censorship and regulation, making and mimicking, to a new round of exciting debates. The database focuses on the way law and cinema insinuate themselves into and shape the very content of each other, keeping the Indian context in view. The search is for material that helps define the cinematic through the grid of law, and also for the cinematic processes that help reflect on the meaning of law.

Historical Investigation of Sound in Indian Media, both in its technological and aesthetic dimensions. This tries to fill the gap in sound research in India. The need for a proper documentation of the developments in Indian film sound is strongly felt by film historians; but the collection will eventually also cover radio and home audio evolution. Soundtracks, Interviews with technicians, photographs of machines, studios and personnel, etc. are being stored, along with annotation.