Tail lights in Otomo's Akira

[Bruce Baird]

Dear Colleagues,

I am showing my class Otomo's Akira and trying to spend time talking  
both about content issues/historical background and also about formal  
issues/artistry.  Otomo often makes streak of the taillights of the  
motorbikes linger on screen after the bikes have driven away.  I  
assume that this is a technique he borrowed from cinema and  
replicated in the anime format (as with the many another borrowings  
from cinema in both manga and anime), but I just  don't know enough  
about the technical way you do this is cinema.  Can anyone imagine  
what I am talking about and provide an explanation?  I assume it has  
to do with some cinematic analogue to shutter speed or something like  
that.

Best,

Bruce



Bruce Baird
Assistant Professor
Asian Languages and Literatures
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Butô, Japanese Theater, Intellectual History

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baird at asianlan.umass.edu




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