 Cinema in Bihar dates to the early years of the 20th century, when Jamshedji Framji Madan acquired the Elphinstone Theatre Company of Bombay in 1902 and converted it into the Elphinstone Bioscope Company.The Elphinstone Theatre in Patna became the Elphinstone Cinema, showing silent shorts until the advent of sound films.It continues in existence, with different ownership after the Madan empire's collapse during the 1930s.