[KineJapan] Query on hippopotamus movies
Markus Nornes
nornes at umich.edu
Thu Dec 27 11:32:45 EST 2018
I’m not sure about this, but if you troll the Kagakushoin dictionary, you
might very well stumble on it.
Markus
“Hakurai kinema sakuhin jiten: Nihon de senzen ni jōei sareta gaikoku eiga
ichiran = Complete dictionary of imported movies up to 1945 August, edited
by Sekai Eigashi Kenkyūkai
Tokyo: Kagaku Shoin, 1997.”
On Thu, Dec 27, 2018 at 6:06 AM Anne McKnight <annekmcknight at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi everyone, and happy almost new year~
>
> I have a query about a specific film I have read about a couple of
> times—yet it is never attributed a name, director, or even year. My best
> guess is Taisho 12.
>
> One account says it is a movie about “hippopotamus hunting,” and mentions
> the commentary by Tokugawa Musei, whereas the other just focuses on how the
> hippo can be accessed better on the screen as a phenomenology project,
> mentioning no bench or even story. The first account (the more
> entertainment-oriented one) remarks that people laughed at various parts of
> the film, coaxed by the commentary, where the other (the more “critical”
> one) doesn’t mention the audience at all. Both critics mention Africa,
> hippos, hippo splashing behavior, around the same time…so I am pretty sure
> they are the same film. They just show very different attitudes about how
> to use photo-realism to understand “nature.”
>
> I am curious if anyone else has seen references to this movie, or even the
> movie itself. No idea where it comes from, but in the memoir I am reading,
> the author typically mentions if it is an Ufa film, so it might not be Ufa.
> And if it is a dramaturged “documentary,” at least it is more real than,
> say, *Baboona* (1935), which I have also seen referenced as a scientific
> (科学) film.
>
> Thanks for any help or wild guesses!
>
> Anne
>
>
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