<div dir="ltr">Thank you Aaron for mentioning Yuki Takinami's work comparing the film-within-a-film sequence to Dziga Vertov's Man With a Movie Camera, which was shown in Japan in 1932. Takinami also discusses this in English in his dissertation, "Reflecting Hollywood: Mobility and Lightness in the Early Silent Films of Ozu Yasujiro, 1927-1933", around p. 191. <div><br></div><div>Looking at the thickness and size of the reels, it does look like 16mm to me. Also, I think 9.5mm was shot with film cartridges, wasn't it? There's an image of the projector case in the film but I don't recognize the logo. And when the guy (not Ryu Chishu) holds up the film, I can't see any center sprocket holes. All circumstantial evidence ... Also, it's not canonical but the Matsui Suisei benshi narration on the Shochiku VHS tape talks about the film as 16mm... as a company boss, he can afford it!</div><div><br></div><div>Michael</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Aug 25, 2020 at 8:53 AM Gerow Aaron via KineJapan <<a href="mailto:kinejapan@mailman.yale.edu" target="_blank">kinejapan@mailman.yale.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div>Most references I can see in Japanese see this as a 16mm film system. For instance, Takinami-san’s article is one example:<div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.iii.u-tokyo.ac.jp/manage/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/83_3.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.iii.u-tokyo.ac.jp/manage/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/83_3.pdf</a></div><div><br></div><div>Aaron<br><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Aug 24, 2020, at 2:33 PM, Desser, David M via KineJapan <<a href="mailto:kinejapan@mailman.yale.edu" target="_blank">kinejapan@mailman.yale.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br><div><div style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt">Can anyone tell me the film gauge of the home-movie in I Was Born But...?  It seems like it's too small for 16mm.  Is it 9.5?</div><div style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><br></div><div style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt">Thanks.</div><div style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><br></div><div style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt">You can reply to me privately if you'd like:<span> </span><a href="mailto:desser@illinois.edu" target="_blank">desser@illinois.edu</a><span> </span>or to this list in case there is controversy.  <span id="gmail-m_5692465924748555475gmail-m_7647227450825060274gmail-m_-3307697821787505322😄">😄</span></div><div style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><span><br></span></div><div style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt">David</div><span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;float:none;display:inline">_______________________________________________</span><br style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space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