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<p class="ydp3ac48c82MsoNormal">A heads-up and a question, please.</p>
<p class="ydp3ac48c82MsoNormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt;layout-grid-mode:char;mso-layout-grid-align:none">This weekend, in London at
the Cinema Museum,
there’s a <a 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;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";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 class="ydp3ac48c82MsoNormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt;layout-grid-mode:char;mso-layout-grid-align:none">What I have gleaned so far from Keith Johnston of the research project at
U. of East Anglia
is:-</p>
<p class="ydp3ac48c82MsoNormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:21.3pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;layout-grid-mode:char;mso-layout-grid-align:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Symbol">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:New">
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">There’s a
brief bio via the Amateur Movie Database: <a href="https://www.amateurcinema.org/index.php/filmmaker/kichi-takeuchi" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" class="">https://www.amateurcinema.org/index.php/filmmaker/kichi-takeuchi</a>)</span></p><div><br></div><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman""></span><p></p>
<p class="ydp3ac48c82MsoNormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:21.3pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;layout-grid-mode:char;mso-layout-grid-align:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Symbol">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:New">
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">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:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">Institute</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial"> of </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">Amateur Cinematographers</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">, </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">London</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">, to be held in the </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">Far East</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial"> 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:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">Europe</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial"> and the </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">Middle East</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">. 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:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">Kyoto</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">, and <span> </span>... <span> </span>Further projections are planned in </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">Nagoya</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">, </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">Osaka</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">, </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">Kyoto</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">, and possibly </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">Yokohama</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">, after which the films
will be sent to </span><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">Australia</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">.’ (‘Notes of the Movie
Clubs’ <i>American Cinematographer</i> v19 n1, March 1938, p.121)</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman""></span></p>
<p class="ydp3ac48c82MsoNormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:21.3pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;layout-grid-mode:char;mso-layout-grid-align:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Symbol">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:New">
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">Years of birth
/ death are currently unknown</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman""></span></p>
<p class="ydp3ac48c82MsoNormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:21.25pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;layout-grid-mode:char;mso-layout-grid-align:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Symbol">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:New">
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">He owned a
kimono shop in </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">Kyoto</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman""></span></p>
<p class="ydp3ac48c82MsoNormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:21.3pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;layout-grid-mode:char;mso-layout-grid-align:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Symbol">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:New">
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">When Kodak
Japan Limited established the </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">Nippon</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial"> 8 miri Kyōkai (8mm Film Association) in
June 1934, Takeuchi served as one of the board members</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman""></span></p>
<p class="ydp3ac48c82MsoNormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:21.3pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;layout-grid-mode:char;mso-layout-grid-align:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Symbol">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:New">
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">He was also a
board member of the </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">Nippon</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial"> 8 miri Eiga Renmei (8mm Film League)
established in 1938</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman""></span></p>
<p class="ydp3ac48c82MsoNormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:21.3pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;layout-grid-mode:char;mso-layout-grid-align:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Symbol">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:New">
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">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:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">Kyoto</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial"> and </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">Osaka</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">.) 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:"Times New Roman""></span></p>
<p class="ydp3ac48c82MsoNormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:21.3pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;layout-grid-mode:char;mso-layout-grid-align:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Symbol">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:New">
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">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:"Times New Roman""></span></p>
<p class="ydp3ac48c82MsoNormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:21.3pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;layout-grid-mode:char;mso-layout-grid-align:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Symbol">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:New">
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">Some writings
on amateur film in </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">Japan</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial"> 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:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">Japan</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">’, <i>Japan Society of
Image Arts and Society</i> vol.3 (1994): 39-68.</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman""></span></p>
<p class="ydp3ac48c82MsoNormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt;layout-grid-mode:char;mso-layout-grid-align:none">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 class="ydp3ac48c82MsoNormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt;layout-grid-mode:char;mso-layout-grid-align:none">The questions are, is there any online resource on Japanese amateur
filmmakers, and can anyone (Noriko Morisue?) tell me more, please.</p>
<p class="ydp3ac48c82MsoNormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt;layout-grid-mode:char;mso-layout-grid-align:none">Roger</p>
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