100th Anniversary of Myanmar Films

As I reported in this post on the postcards of the 50th Annievrsary of Myanmar motion pictures, first ever Burmese film titled "Love and Liqueur" | "မေတ္တာနှင့်သူရာ" was premiered on screen on 13 Oct 1920 and turning 100 year today.  Together with the Committee for Organizing the Centenary of Myanmar Films, Myanmar Post issues the stamp to commemorate the celebration.  The stamp design, provided by Ministry of Information, features Arriflex camera and rollfilm.  Myanmar Post issued the official First Day Covers also.  Originally, MP planned to issues postcards but it was cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances.  In 1995, the the commemorative stamp for the celebration of Diamond Jubilee was also issued.  So, this is the second time issued for Myanmar Films.  

Stamp Design

Technical Details of Stamps

Date of Issue :13 October 2020
Printer : Security Printing Works (Myanmar)
Printing Process : Offset
Stamp Size and Format : 30 mm x 42 mm (Vertical)
Color : 4
Perforation : 14
Denomination : K200
Sheet Composition :  50 Stamps per Sheet
Quantity : 300,000 pc
Stamp Designers : Ministry of Information

Three official commemorative postcards were produced, unfortunately not on sale due to some concerns. Rare variety of first day cancellation is from Nay Pyi Taw CPO, with the wrong date of 23 Oct.

FDCs

Postcards

Cancellations

The first day cancellation dated 13 Oct 2020.  A rare variety of first-day cancellation is from Nay Pyi Taw CPO, but with the incorrect date of 23 Oct 2020. 

The Postmark dated 30 Nov 2020.  The actual celebration of the event happened on that day.  The pop-up card was also issued by Myanmar Post on that day.

 

 

Postcard Story : 50th Anniversary Celebration of Myanmar Motion Pictures

Myanmar Motion Picture Industry has its centenary celebration in 2020.  The first ever Burmese film was "Love and Liqueur" | "မေတ္တာနှင့်သူရာ" and was on-screen on 13 October 1920 at the Royal Cinema [1].  The exact centenary is approaching soon at the time of writing.  The first Burmese director is London Art U Ohn Maung and the story is by P Moe Nin.  It is the silent film starring U Nyi Pu.  U Ohn Maung is Burma's pioneer filmmaker, and had founded the Burma Film Company.  The film was a great success despite the quality due to a fixed camera position and inadequate film accessories.

 

Film Advertisements Photo : wikipedia

I would like to take this opportunity to share the postcards commemorated the Golden Jubilee celebration of Myanmar Motion Picture. Lets have a look at the postcards.

 

Back of the card

Actor Zaw One

Actor/Director Win Oo

Actress Sandar

Actress Wah Wah Win Shwe

 

These cards were published by Myanmar Motion Picture Council, which is now known as Myanmar Motion Picture Organization.  I do not have information of how many designs were produced in this set, but I believe there can be more than four. 

 Reference:

[1] မေတ္တာ နှင့် သူရာ. (၂၀၁၈, ဇွန် ၂၈). ဝီကီပီးဒီးယား, . Retrieved ၁၇:၁၆, အောက်တိုဘာ ၉, ၂၀၂၀ from https://my.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%E1%80%99%E1%80%B1%E1%80%90%E1%80%B9%E1%80%90%E1%80%AC_%E1%80%94%E1%80%BE%E1%80%84%E1%80%B7%E1%80%BA_%E1%80%9E%E1%80%B0%E1%80%9B%E1%80%AC&oldid=409335.

Panbu (The art of sculpture)

 The sixth issue in the art series is Panbu or the art of sculpture.

Panbu is the art of sculpture which produces Buddha images, the figures of human, animals and floral designs made of wood. Most famous sculpture works can be seen in monasteries around Salin, Pakokku, Amarapura.  Traditional sculpture works can be seen as Lions, Kinnara, Nat statues, Bhrama, Ogres, Nagas, Garuda, Hamsa and many more.

 

The postcard showing the art of Panbu

Technical Details of Stamps

Date of Issue :9 October 2020
Printer : Security Printing Works (Myanmar)
Printing Process : Offset
Stamp Size and Format : 30 mm x 42 mm (Vertical)
Color : 4
Perforation : 14
Denomination : K200
Sheet Composition :  50 Stamps per Sheet
Quantity : 300,000 pc
Stamp Designers : Shwe Yoe Yar, Thiha Lwin (TMH)

Myanmar Post produced 3100 official FDCs, of which 1050 were reserved for Mandalay GPO.

First Day Covers

Official FDC