<div dir="ltr">Hi Jasper,<div><br></div><div>You obviously have the context of what you've been researching, which I don't, so forgive me for asking... but are you absolutely sure it's Kyoto- (or even-Japan)-based? The first two characters read in Chinese are Datong, a city in Shanxi Prefecture (a few hours' drive west of Beijing).</div><div><br></div><div>Chinese film pioneer Zhang Shichuan (1889-1953 or 1890-1954, depending on the source consulted) is said in the Historical Dictionary of Chinese Cinema to have worked for a Shanghai-based company called Datong Film Company late in his career, after WWII. This was a problematic moment in his career; he had worked in wartime Shanghai for a Japanese-controlled studio and courted accusations of treason after the city was liberated, although he was never indicted.</div><div><br></div><div>I found quite a few references online to a <span style="color:rgb(32,33,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">大同影片公司 and then realised it does have an English language Wikipedia entry suggesting that it started making films in 1948:</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(32,33,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px"><br></span></div><div><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datong_Film_Company" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datong_Film_Company</a><span style="color:rgb(32,33,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px"><br></span></div><div><br></div><div>Although that entry claims it shut down in 1953, there seems also to have been a 大同影業公司 active in Taiwan from the 1950s. See</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://hkmdb.com/db/companies/view.mhtml?id=2718" target="_blank">http://hkmdb.com/db/companies/view.mhtml?id=2718</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>which includes links to several posters where the name is visible.</div><div><br></div><div>Searching "Datong Eiga" in kanji, within quotation marks, also brings up a reference on a Japanese-language website to the same Chinese studio.</div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>ALEX</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div> </div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, 28 Apr 2021 at 16:10, Jasper Sharp 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">
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I have a quick question for those of you who might know a little about Kyoto film history. Does anyone know of a film company called Daido Eiga (大同映画) that was around circa 1946/47? The name came up in something I'm researching, and it seems to be a thing,
but I can't find anything of substance about it on the internet.</div>
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