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<p class="ydp17bb564aMsoNormal"><span>Trying to relieve eye-strain by getting away
from my small screen, I took an afternoon off at Japan House in Kensington, </span><span>London</span><span>.<span> </span>They have
an exhibition on the </span><span>Tokyo</span><span> 1964 designs. I found myself watching a 26 minute
Iwanami doc. on an even smaller screen, of the design and construction of the
Yoyogi National Gymnasium.<span> </span>Made for the
contractors, </span><span>Shimizu</span><span>, it paid no attention whatever to the pool or
anything else at ground level, focussing on the roof, and the forces it had to
withstand, both as a completed structure, and during construction.</span></p>
<p class="ydp17bb564aMsoNormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt;layout-grid-mode:char;mso-layout-grid-align:none"><span>It had english-only titling ‘Construction
Record of National Stadium - Olympic Swimming Pool in </span><span>Tokyo</span><span>’, and english-only-commentary from the time of
issue.</span></p>
<p class="ydp17bb564aMsoNormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt;layout-grid-mode:char;mso-layout-grid-align:none"><span>I think I’ve seen a film treating the
construction of the </span><span>Florence</span><span> dome in a comparable way but nothing as good as
this has come my way on a modern construction. I suspect it’s not the kind of
subject to attract to film writers. I could have used it profitably in teaching
high school students mechanics, although the english translation measured force
in ‘tons’ rather than newtons.</span></p>
<p class="ydp17bb564aMsoNormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt;layout-grid-mode:char;mso-layout-grid-align:none"><span>There were no staff credits on this print but
an exhibition label card<span> </span>told me the
original title was </span><span style="font-family:"MS Mincho";mso-fareast-language:ZH-TW" lang="ZH-TW">代々木競技場第一体育館</span><span>·</span><span class="ydp17bb564ajlqj4bchmk0b"><span style="font-family:"MS Mincho";mso-fareast-language:ZH-TW" lang="ZH-TW">建設記録</span></span><span style="font-family:"MS Mincho";mso-fareast-language:ZH-TW" lang="ZH-TW">映像</span><span>, which, googling with ‘</span><span style="font-family:"MS Mincho";mso-fareast-language:ZH-TW" lang="ZH-TW">岩波</span><span>’, I could track down here <a href="http://kirokueizo.jp/db/search/eigadata/view/85974" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://kirokueizo.jp/db/search/eigadata/view/85974</a>
</span><span style="font-family:"MS Mincho";mso-fareast-language:ZH-TW">.</span></p>
<p class="ydp17bb564aMsoNormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt;layout-grid-mode:char;mso-layout-grid-align:none"><span>The staff names are completely unknown to me.
The director (if I have the readings right), SAKINO Shirō, I can only find in a
few TV production credits. The principal photographer, UEMURA Ryūichi has some
other credits with more radical titles, but not so for the scriptwriter,
HORIKOSHI Kei (Hajime?). I wonder whether she/he was an engineering instructor.</span></p>
</div><div class="ydp44bd804bMsoNormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt;layout-grid-mode:char;mso-layout-grid-align:none" dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><span>Roger<br></span></div>
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