Lion Films slides

[Jonathan M Hall]

Aaron is correct here.  You can see a Lion Film set in Murata  
Yasushi's 1929 Taro's Toy Train.
It's in the Digital Meme Japanese Anime Classic Collection.

Jonathan M Hall



On 8 Sep 2009, at 15:40, Aaron Gerow wrote:

> My impression that the exact wording is just a brand for a company  
> called Lion Films. A brief search of the net seems to indicate this  
> was a toy film company which sold short films for home use. Here's  
> one available for auction:
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> http://garakuta-tengoku.com/photo10056.html
>
> The Toy Film Project people at Osaka Geidai have a number of these  
> films in their collection:
>
> http://toyfilm.jp/animation/
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