Shimizu doc

[Abe-Nornes]

In addition to the feature film Sayon's Bell (Sayon no kane, 1943), they
showed Keijo (Kyonsong, 1940). Here is the kaisetsu (written very quickly,
so forgive mistakes):

At the time Shimizu shot the chilredn's film Friends (Tomodachi) in Korea.
In this documentary he collected various impression sof Seoul streets
durign the course of a day. As in the case of Friends, Atsuta Yuharu, known
as the cinematographer of Ozu's films, was in charge of photogarpahy. Ther
is no narration, only music.

(snip)

It begins with scenes of the morning: a Christian church, the platforms of
Seoul station, an elementary school, a girl's school, the building of a
middle school. Commuting grade school students with knapsacks and salary
men appear. On a guge hanging screen, attached to the wall of a building,
dance the cahracters for updlift the national spirit.

Volunteer soldires drill, the stock exchange, then moving shots from a car
showing outdooro stalls, a candy vendor, a horse-drown cart, laundry
washign on the embankments of a river. A street vbiewed form above, one
tiled roof follows another. The office building of the governor general. 

Evening comes, pictures from restaurants and tempura shops. Night time
seoul is presented. Back alleys, ready to fall asleep. The film closes with
shots of women starching clothes, in the people's houses which leak light.

(snip)

The catalog will be available for purchase from the Yamagata Film Festival
(web link on Kinema Club) but most of the kaisetsu are like this (only the
spelling mistakes are from my typing; the catalog appears to have been
translated mostly by non-native speakers, and shows it) and there are no
articles as such.  

The print of this film is at the Film Center.

amn