# Film source notes — The Light of Learning

## Archival Lucknow
- Residency ruins, Felice Beato, c.1858. Wellcome Collection 574468i. Public Domain Mark. https://wellcomecollection.org/works/eq64426u — downloaded original 3003 × 2513.
- King of Oudh’s residence, Felice Beato, 1858. Wellcome Collection 574547i. Public Domain Mark. https://wellcomecollection.org/works/jc5k3krd — downloaded original 3112 × 2408.
These show the photographed aftermath/architecture; they do not depict specific narrated acts or establish the photographer’s political neutrality. No invented Lucknow views, colourisation, maps or generated battle images are used.

## Reused historical objects
- Munshi Newal Kishore historical portrait: existing site Wikimedia Commons asset.
- Ramayana 1894 illustration: existing Heidelberg University Library asset; available local source 720 × 720, not represented as native HD.
- Indra Sabha page: existing eGangotri/Sarayu Trust scan.
- Banshi Raga Mala 1889 and Baital Pachisi 1877: existing Internet Archive/eGangotri scans; edition metadata retained in work/museum-reading-20261021.
- Awadh Akhbar masthead, 1 January 1875: user-supplied reference.
- Commemorative stamp and first-day cover, 19 February 1970: supplied by Le Press. Original images retained; not replaced by generated imitations.

## Reused reconstructions
- mushiji video.mp4: supplied dramatised opening; entire original 20-second audio retained. Spoken words are imagined dialogue, not a historical quotation.
- gemini_generated_video_997bfbdf.mp4: supplied animated portrait; no speech added.
- Big Barn, calligraphy, lithography and binding clips: existing illustrative AI reconstructions. Not historical camera footage or verified demonstrations of specific surviving machines. Big Barn use restricted to lower machinery crop excluding modern wall fittings. No woman-binding image or three-men-reading sequence.
- Campus and museum recordings: existing interpretive digital model, identified on screen.

## Present-day Le Press
Actual campus, garden, entrance and corridor photos from the existing Le Press website assets; existing spring-garden and Teej 2026 video sources from the local community-film collection. The campus-2026 photo-booth clip is excluded from this revision. No generated replacement campus or family portrait. Family continuity/adaptive-reuse history is provided by the project owner.

## Sound and text
New Indian male narration generated from approved script only. Existing supplied opening audio retained. New narration is not a voice clone of Munshiji or a family member. Music reused from the Big Barn direction preview: generated Indian classical instrumental. No user footage uploaded for this edit. Names in the spoken synthesis use Hindi orthography; public captions use corrected family names.

## Research basis
https://magazine.uchicago.edu/0910/investigations/india_in_print.shtml
https://www.fid4sa.de/en/resources/bibliographies/naval-kishore-press-bibliography
https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/items/67531
https://www.indiapost.gov.in/VAS/Pages/News/Indian_Postage_Stamp_Catalogue_1947-2011.pdf

## Delivery
1080p delivery mixes original source resolutions; no claim that every source is native HD. Optional English captions, off by default. Stable QR destination: https://www.lepress.in/newal-kishore-museum.html. Local review copy; publication is a separate action.