Resources on film stock in Japan

[Alex Zahlten]

Hi Jasper,

one other possible source are old books on filming tech aimed at the surprisingly large amateur market of the 1930s. There are often extremely detailed descriptions of the technology involved in developing the film, the kinds of film stock, lists of suppliers etc. included in these. There are a whole bunch of these books (sorry, my list of them is in a sealed box locked in a basement in Germany...), and they are not that hard to find in libraries-

Alex



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> Datum: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 09:21:17 +0900
> Von: Aaron Gerow <aaron.gerow at yale.edu>
> An: KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
> Betreff: 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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