Shavakshaw Talati, born in Zanzibar in 1889, a retired civil servant who was later a prominent businessman on the island, entered the cinema business in the early 1930s. In 1939, he formed a consortium and proceeded to expand both the size and quality of the cinema business, incorporating it as Indo-African Theatres Limited.
As exhibitors, the partners built several new world class theaters, among them, in Dar-es-Salaam the Avalon, and in Zanzibar the Sultana (later renamed the Cine-Afrique). These were soon updated to receive the specialized screen and sound equipment to show the latest Cinemascope and stereophonic sound films. These entrepreneurs were a modernizing force through the decades.
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