[KineJapan] Fw: Early anime in London, spreadsheets, and sound quality.

[Roger Macy]

The monthly spreadsheet, ‘London Repertory Film, by JasmineSolomon, has proved a useful resource and usually picks up something I had otherwisemissed. I mention it here because Jasmine also does one for the CinemaRitrovato in Bologna, which isquite a challenge to timetable.

This month’s nugget in Londonis a screening of Early Japanese Animation with english benshi and live musicat the Barbican on 5th June. The films are mostly different from thescreening at the NFT last month, and several are new to me.  You can reach the Barbican’s page by hoveringover Jasmine’s listing.

 

The Barbican set are all silent. For me, the great surprise of the BFI/NFTselection, all from DCP, were the orchestrally accompanied films from 1943, TheSpider’s Thread  蜘蛛の糸,and The Spider and the Tulip くもとちゅうりっぷ . The soundquality in NFT1 was what I would call hi-fi – a million miles from what Iusually get on Japanese films of the period. I hadn’t heard such good soundfrom a Japanese film before, I'd say, 1980, and I was encouraged to think thatsuch sound was now recoverable.

This set was 10 films, shown all together withoutbreak, defying any mortal’s ability to remember much of the middle films. So, Iwent again, this time in NFT2. And the sound quality was fair but notcomparable. I raised this with the BFI, who tell me they are upgrading thespeakers in NFT2 and NFT3 this month. But it was a surprise to me to discoverthat the limiting factor in sound quality in 1943 films was far more recent replayequipment.

Roger

 


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