Light of India

{{short description|1929 film}} {{Use mdy dates|date=October 2020}} {{Infobox film | name = Light of India | image = | alt = | caption = | director = Elmer Clifton | producer = Herbert T. Kalmus | writer = | screenplay = | story = | narrator = | starring = Betty Boyd<br/>Shogwan Singh<br/>Harold Goodwin | music = | cinematography = | editing = | studio = Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer<br/>Technicolor Corporation | distributor = Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | released = {{film date|1929|3|9|ref1=<ref name=dawn>{{cite book|last=Layton|first=James|first2=David|last2=Pierce|title=The Dawn of Technicolor: 1915-1935|publisher=George Eastman House|year=2015|page=345|location=Rochester, New York|isbn=9780935398281|oclc=893557706}}</ref>}} | runtime = | country = United States | language = Silent<br/>English Intertitles | budget = | gross = }} '''''Light of India''''' is a 1929 MGM short silent film short in two-color Technicolor. It was the tenth film produced as part of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's "Great Events" series.

==Production== The film was shot at the Tec-Art Studio in Hollywood. Director Elmer Clifton was paid $1000.00 for his work on this film and earlier series entry ''Manchu Love''.<ref>{{cite book|last=Slide|first=Anthony|title=Silent Topics: Essays on Undocumented Areas of Silent Film|publisher=Scarecrow Press|year=2005|page=38|location=Lanham, Maryland|isbn=9780810850163|oclc=474654178|chapter=The "Great Events" Series}}</ref>

==Preservation status== ''Light of India'' is believed to be lost.<ref name=dawn />

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==External links == *{{IMDb title|1051346|Light of India}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Light of India}} Category:1929 films Category:1929 lost films Category:1929 American films Category:1929 English-language films Category:English-language short films Category:Films directed by Elmer Clifton Category:Films set in India Category:Films set in the 1850s Category:Lost American silent short films Category:Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer short films Category:Silent films in color