* Mr R.G Torne alias Dadasaheb Torne was the Producer and Director of the Film 'Pundalik' genre Drama which satisfied all the norms of Film making(pre production -production -post production) like story,screenplay ,script, indoor outdoor shoot, editing,advertising,distribution, release and screening in a cinema theatre,followed by reviewing by newspapers.

It was released in Coronation cinematograph Bombay(now known as Mumbai) on 18 May 1912 advertisement of which is available in Times of India dated 25 may 1912

(In a book by Mr Isak Mujawar named "Maharashtra birth place of Indian film history"published by Maharashtra Information Center, Govt Of Maharashtra in 1969 mentioned that total length of film was 8000 feet ,If that is the length of the film Pundalik it could be accepted that its running time would be around 1 and 1/2 hours which could be considered as a Full Length Feature Film as per the standard of those days -excerpt "Life and work of India's First film maker Dadasaheb Torne" by Shashikant Kinikar)

* He has always stayed as a part of film industry even when he went to Karachi(then a part of undivided British India) for work.He started the first ever Film distribution office in Karachi under the name Famous Pictures in 1914 .He used to import western films and distribute them in India.

* He supplied the talkie machinery the first ever Talkie movie Alam ara in 1931

* Presented the first ever double role enacted by Mr Shahu Modak in the Talkie era in the film 'Aut Ghatkecha Raja' in Marathi released as 'Ameer shehezada' in Hindi in 1933.

* 3-4of Dadasaheb Torne's films along with a short film taken during a family picnic(screened in a theatre of Ftii Pune for the family members of Torne) and books gifted by Charles Glouner (cinematographer of Warner Bros and a close friend of Dadashaeb Torne) were gifted to FTII in 1962.

This should be with either Ftii or with Nfai (formed in 1964)sadly none of these movie or books are traceable.

* Dadasheb Torne has been a part of every aspect of film making .He had no formal training of film making and was a self taught person.He was a very good self taught editor and audiographer.