Resources on film stock in Japan

[Jasper Sharp]

Thanks for this information Frederick. Don't worry about departing from Japanese cinema - I'm also strongly interested in how the Japanese situation compares with the rest of the world.
I knew there must have been monochrome Scope films, once the novelty of the original sense of spectacle had worn off, but I just couldn't think of any offhand. But that is really interesting to hear they were marketed using the name RegalScope. I'll have to do more research on this.

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> Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2010 19:07:43 +0900
> From: notreconciled at gmail.com
> To: KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
> Subject: Re: Resources on film stock in Japan
> 
> This is somewhat at a tangent to Japanese cinema, but I wanted to note
> that, while not nearly as widespread as in Japan, there were in fact
> black and white 'Scope films made in Hollywood. So as not to detract
> from the prestige of the CinemaScope label, from 1956-1959 Fox
> initially used the name RegalScope for its B productions in black and
> white--mostly westerns. They eventually produced black and white films
> under the CinemaScope label as well, including Samuel Fuller's Forty
> Guns. And there were non-Fox black and white 'Scope productions,
> including Douglas Sirk's Tarnished Angels.
> 
> On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 6:19 PM, Jasper Sharp <jasper_sharp at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Now, returning to Belton's book, when 20th Century Fox introduced the
> > CinemaScope format and were initially selling it to exhibitors in America,
> > it was packaged together as a bundle involving the anamorphic lenses for the
> > projectors, stereo sound systems, curved screens and colour films. In
> > America, CinemaScope wasn't just characterised by its aspect ratio, but the
> > widescreen "spectacles" (The Robe, How to Marry A Millionaire etc) were all
> > sold equally as being in full colour - I can't think offhand of a Hollywood
> > CinemaScope production that was filmed in monochrome, although in Japan
> > their were of course plenty (or at least in local variations of CinemaScope,
> > such as NikkatsuScope, TohoScope et al).
 		 	   		  
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