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<p class="ydp2e47fbb8MsoNormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt;layout-grid-mode:char;mso-layout-grid-align:none">Thank you, Noriko, for such a generous and quick response ! I appreciate
all the work you have done on this.</p>
<p class="ydp2e47fbb8MsoNormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt;layout-grid-mode:char;mso-layout-grid-align:none">Yes, I can see it’s a beautiful, well-crafted film.</p>
<p class="ydp2e47fbb8MsoNormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt;layout-grid-mode:char;mso-layout-grid-align:none">The preserved film is shorn of its Japanese title and credits, so I would
be very much in the dark without your help.</p>
<p class="ydp2e47fbb8MsoNormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt;layout-grid-mode:char;mso-layout-grid-align:none">Do you have the original title ? - <span class="ydp2e47fbb8rynqvb"><span style="font-family:MS Mincho;mso-fareast-language:JA" lang="JA">姉</span></span><span><span>弟</span></span><span class="ydp2e47fbb8rynqvb"><span></span> ?</span></p>
<p class="ydp2e47fbb8MsoNormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt;layout-grid-mode:char;mso-layout-grid-align:none"><span class="ydp2e47fbb8rynqvb"><span>I’ll look forward to
viewing the others.</span></span></p>
<p class="ydp2e47fbb8MsoNormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt;layout-grid-mode:char;mso-layout-grid-align:none"><span class="ydp2e47fbb8rynqvb"><span>Roger</span></span><span></span></p>
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On Friday, 4 November 2022 at 11:10:18 GMT, Noriko Morisue <noriko.morisue@gmail.com> wrote:
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<div><div id="ydpfb7db126yiv5394022487"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Dear Roger,<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Thank you so much for your interest in this topic and for your question.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">I am actually part of the project with Keith Johnston on the IAC World Tour, and the description on Takeuchi (武内 吉之助) that you have quoted in your email is something that I wrote up.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">My knowledge may not be up to date since I have not been able to work much on the topic since I finished my thesis a few years ago, but when I was working on my diss, there was no comprehensive online resource on Japanese amateur films or filmmakers as far as I was aware of (except for the Amateur Movie Database you are referring to, although this website does not include much information in the Japanese context). You may be able to find some information in the Digital Collection of the National Diet Library, but I do not think you can find anything that will give you a comprehensive framework of this subject. Regarding the IAC World Tour in Japan, unlike what is described in the Amateur Cinematographer article you have quoted, I was able to find evidence of only one screening that took place in Japan (at the hall of Konishiroku’s head office in Tokyo on January 20, 1938). <br clear="none"><br clear="none">East Anglian Film Archive has made available the works of three Japanese amateur filmmakers from the 1930s (Takeuchi, Okamoto Tatsuichi, and Tsukamoto Koji), all of which are part of the IAC Film Collection.</div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr"><a shape="rect" href="https://eafa.org.uk/search/?q=Takeuchi&titleDateFrom=1890-01-01&titleDateTo=2022-12-30&perorg=&agentActivity=&featured=&workType=&descriptionType=&sound=&colourType=&searchSort=relevance_desc" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://eafa.org.uk/search/?q=Takeuchi&titleDateFrom=1890-01-01&titleDateTo=2022-12-30&perorg=&agentActivity=&featured=&workType=&descriptionType=&sound=&colourType=&searchSort=relevance_desc</a></div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr">The Collection also includes a film, Tambo, by American filmmaker Fred Ells who was based in Japan from the mid 1920s through 1940, but somehow the web video seems unavailable for his film.<br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none">Noriko<br clear="none"></div><br clear="none"><div class="ydpfb7db126yiv5394022487gmail_quote"><div id="ydpfb7db126yiv5394022487yqt49025" class="ydpfb7db126yiv5394022487yqt3220240086"><div dir="ltr" class="ydpfb7db126yiv5394022487gmail_attr">On Fri, Nov 4, 2022 at 9:32 AM Roger Macy via KineJapan <<a shape="rect" href="mailto:kinejapan@mailman.yale.edu" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">kinejapan@mailman.yale.edu</a>> wrote:<br clear="none"></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex;" class="ydpfb7db126yiv5394022487gmail_quote"><div><div style="font-family:Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><div dir="ltr"><div>
<p>A heads-up and a question, please.</p>
<p style="margin-top:6pt;">This weekend, in London at
the Cinema Museum,
there’s a <a shape="rect" href="http://www.cinemamuseum.org.uk/2022/kennington-bioscope-sixth-silent-film-weekend-saturday-5-november/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">silent
film weekend</a>. On Saturday, at 13.50, there’s a programme of amateur films that
recreates the <strong><span style="font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal;">The Institute of Amateur Photographers’ Award-Winners’ Film
Programme of 1935-39,</span></strong> and includes a film, <i>Sister and
Brother</i>, 1931 by TAKEUCHI Kichinosuke from the Amateur Movie Maker Contest
of 1932.</p>
<p style="margin-top:6pt;">What I have gleaned so far from Keith Johnston of the research project at
U. of East Anglia
is:-</p>
<p style="margin:6pt 0cm 0.0001pt 21.3pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Symbol;">·</span><span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:New;">
</span><span style="font-size:11pt;">There’s a
brief bio via the Amateur Movie Database: <a shape="rect" href="https://www.amateurcinema.org/index.php/filmmaker/kichi-takeuchi" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.amateurcinema.org/index.php/filmmaker/kichi-takeuchi</a>)</span></p><div><br clear="none"></div><span style="font-family:New;"></span><p></p>
<p style="margin:6pt 0cm 0.0001pt 21.3pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Symbol;">·</span><span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:New;">
</span><span style="font-size:11pt;">Report on <i>Sister
</i>as part of IAC World Tour programme: ‘The first projection of the World
Tour films, sponsored by the </span><span style="font-size:11pt;">Institute</span><span style="font-size:11pt;"> of </span><span style="font-size:11pt;">Amateur Cinematographers</span><span style="font-size:11pt;">, </span><span style="font-size:11pt;">London</span><span style="font-size:11pt;">, to be held in the </span><span style="font-size:11pt;">Far East</span><span style="font-size:11pt;"> was given tonight before
three hundred members of the Sakura Kogata Eigo Kyokai (Cherry Amateur Movie
Society). Winners in the 1934 contest of the Institute, these films have
progressed through </span><span style="font-size:11pt;">Europe</span><span style="font-size:11pt;"> and the </span><span style="font-size:11pt;">Middle East</span><span style="font-size:11pt;">. Veterans of numerous projections, the films are yet in excellent
condition. Japanese amateurs were particularly appreciative of “Sister,”
produced by <b>K. Takeuchi</b> of </span><span style="font-size:11pt;">Kyoto</span><span style="font-size:11pt;">, and <span> </span>... <span> </span>Further projections are planned in </span><span style="font-size:11pt;">Nagoya</span><span style="font-size:11pt;">, </span><span style="font-size:11pt;">Osaka</span><span style="font-size:11pt;">, </span><span style="font-size:11pt;">Kyoto</span><span style="font-size:11pt;">, and possibly </span><span style="font-size:11pt;">Yokohama</span><span style="font-size:11pt;">, after which the films
will be sent to </span><span style="font-size:11pt;">Australia</span><span style="font-size:11pt;">.’ (‘Notes of the Movie
Clubs’ <i>American Cinematographer</i> v19 n1, March 1938, p.121)</span><span style="font-family:New;"></span></p>
<p style="margin:6pt 0cm 0.0001pt 21.3pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Symbol;">·</span><span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:New;">
</span><span style="font-size:11pt;">Years of birth
/ death are currently unknown</span><span style="font-family:New;"></span></p>
<p style="margin:6pt 0cm 0.0001pt 21.25pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Symbol;">·</span><span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:New;">
</span><span style="font-size:11pt;">He owned a
kimono shop in </span><span style="font-size:11pt;">Kyoto</span><span style="font-family:New;"></span></p>
<p style="margin:6pt 0cm 0.0001pt 21.3pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Symbol;">·</span><span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:New;">
</span><span style="font-size:11pt;">When Kodak
Japan Limited established the </span><span style="font-size:11pt;">Nippon</span><span style="font-size:11pt;"> 8 miri Kyōkai (8mm Film Association) in
June 1934, Takeuchi served as one of the board members</span><span style="font-family:New;"></span></p>
<p style="margin:6pt 0cm 0.0001pt 21.3pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Symbol;">·</span><span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:New;">
</span><span style="font-size:11pt;">He was also a
board member of the </span><span style="font-size:11pt;">Nippon</span><span style="font-size:11pt;"> 8 miri Eiga Renmei (8mm Film League)
established in 1938</span><span style="font-family:New;"></span></p>
<p style="margin:6pt 0cm 0.0001pt 21.3pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Symbol;">·</span><span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:New;">
</span><span style="font-size:11pt;">Takeuchi
published a number of writings in amateur film magazines published locally in
the Kansai region in the 1930s (which included cities such as </span><span style="font-size:11pt;">Kyoto</span><span style="font-size:11pt;"> and </span><span style="font-size:11pt;">Osaka</span><span style="font-size:11pt;">.) The names of these
magazines are <i>Bebī kinema </i>(Baby Kinema) and <i>Patē kinema</i>
(Pathe Kinema), and the topics of his writings include the "theory and
practice of small-gauge filmmaking for educating children" (that appeared
in several issues of the <i>Patē kinema</i> magazine in 1932 and
19333) and a screenplay for a small-gauge production, titled <i>Goldfish</i>
(April 1933 in <i>Patē kinema</i>)</span><span style="font-family:New;"></span></p>
<p style="margin:6pt 0cm 0.0001pt 21.3pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Symbol;">·</span><span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:New;">
</span><span style="font-size:11pt;">Some of these
publications included Takeuchi in a debate about the use of sequences from
other people’s films in new works, whether editing was enough to create
originality (following some of Pudovkin’s ideas) or if a film had to be a
completely new creation</span><span style="font-family:New;"></span></p>
<p style="margin:6pt 0cm 0.0001pt 21.3pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Symbol;">·</span><span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:New;">
</span><span style="font-size:11pt;">Some writings
on amateur film in </span><span style="font-size:11pt;">Japan</span><span style="font-size:11pt;"> include Noriko Morisue
(she wrote her PhD at Yale on this topic) and Nada Hisashi, ‘The Little Cinema
Movement in the 1920s and the Introduction of Avant-Garde Cinema in </span><span style="font-size:11pt;">Japan</span><span style="font-size:11pt;">’, <i>Japan Society of
Image Arts and Society</i> vol.3 (1994): 39-68.</span><span style="font-family:New;"></span></p>
<p style="margin-top:6pt;">I don’t have immediate access to these references, and none of that
definitively gives me Takeuchi’s Japanese spelling, so I’m just giving what I
have, before the screening.</p>
<p style="margin-top:6pt;">The questions are, is there any online resource on Japanese amateur
filmmakers, and can anyone (Noriko Morisue?) tell me more, please.</p>
<p style="margin-top:6pt;">Roger</p>
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