Resources on film stock in Japan

[Jasper Sharp]

Thank you for this information Aaron, and to everyone else who responded to me both on and off list.
It seems like there's a wealth of material for me to get going through, although it's mainly in Japanese, and even more frustratingly for me land-locked in London, in Japan!
Still, I shall start approaching the various figures I've been directed to at the Film Centre and elsewhere and thanks again for all the help.

Best
Jasper

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> Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 09:21:17 +0900
> From: aaron.gerow at yale.edu
> To: KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
> Subject: Re: Resources on film stock in Japan
> 
> Joanne is right that talking to archivists might be a productive  
> route. That reminded me that Itakura Fumiaki of the Film Center gave  
> an interesting talk at the JASIAS about tinting and toning of film  
> prints in the silent era with a representative of Imagica. He might be  
> someone to contact too.
> 
> I should also note (not for Jasper, who already knows this) that there  
> is a major reference book for film technology in Japanese: Nihon eiga  
> gijutsushi (Nihon Eiga Terebi Gijutsu Kyokai, 1997). It has its  
> drawbacks--it was written and edited by technicians, not professional  
> historians, so there are a lot of typos, etc.--but it is a great place  
> to start out. (My copy is back in the states, so I can't check it  
> right now.)
> 
> For the 1910s, I would also recommend just leafing through Kinema  
> Record. Kaeriyama and the gang were real technical geeks and published  
> a lot of articles on the technical nitty-gritty of film.
> 
> For the postwar, the journal Eiga gijutsu (a Japanese equivalent to  
> the Journal of the SMPTE), which began publication in 1948, should be  
> a treasure trove for discussions of the transitions to color and  
> widescreen.
> 
> Aaron Gerow
> KineJapan owner
> 
> Associate Professor
> Film Studies Program/East Asian Languages and Literatures
> Yale University
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