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'''Ambalal Jhaverbhai Patel''' (died 1961) was an Indian photographer and film producer.<ref name="The Photographic Journal: Including the Transactions of the Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain...">{{cite book|title=The Photographic Journal: Including the Transactions of the Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain...|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9aIIAAAAIAAJ|year=1961|publisher=Royal Photographic Society.}}</ref><br />
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Patel started working as a professional photographer in 1924. He subsequently started work as a cameraman in the newsreel industry, but continued photography as a hobby, and after a successful 1939 exhibition became a Fellow of the [[Royal Photographic Society]].<ref name="Popular Photography - ND">{{cite book|title=Popular Photography - ND|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FGYzAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA40|date=August 1945|pages=40,65,114}}.</ref> A trip to Hollywood the following year led to him pitching the idea of a weekly Indian newsreel to the British government in India, which eventually led to the creation of ''[[Indian News Parade]]''.<ref name="A directory of Indian documentary">{{cite book|title=A directory of Indian documentary|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oehkAAAAMAAJ|year=1998|publisher=Mumbai International Film Festival for Documentary, Short & Animation Films|page=27}}</ref> In 1952, he founded Film Centre, which was the first film laboratory in India to produce colour prints. In order to demonstrate Film Centre's capabilities, he produced [[Ezra Mir]]'s film ''Pamposh'', which received critical plaudits for its appearance.<ref name="GulazāraNihalani2003">{{cite book|author1=Gulazāra|author2=Govind Nihalani|author3=Saibal Chatterjee|title=Encyclopaedia of Hindi Cinema 26|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8y8vN9A14nkC&pg=PT278|year=2003|publisher=Popular Prakashan|isbn=978-81-7991-066-5|pages=278–279}}</ref><br />
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Patel published the photography periodical ''Camera in the Tropics''.<ref name="Popular Photography - ND"/><br />
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