[KineJapan] 1931 amateur film by TAKEUCHI Kichinosuke this Saturday

[Roger Macy]

A heads-up and a question, please.

This weekend, in London atthe Cinema Museum,there’s a silentfilm weekend. On Saturday, at 13.50, there’s a programme of amateur films thatrecreates the The Institute of Amateur Photographers’ Award-Winners’ FilmProgramme of 1935-39, and includes a film, Sister andBrother, 1931 by TAKEUCHI Kichinosuke from the Amateur Movie Maker Contestof 1932.

What I have gleaned so far from Keith Johnston of the research project atU. of East Angliais:-

·        There’s abrief bio via the Amateur Movie Database: https://www.amateurcinema.org/index.php/filmmaker/kichi-takeuchi)




·        Report on Sisteras part of IAC World Tour programme: ‘The first projection of the WorldTour films, sponsored by the Institute of Amateur Cinematographers, London, to be held in the Far East was given tonight beforethree hundred members of the Sakura Kogata Eigo Kyokai (Cherry Amateur MovieSociety). Winners in the 1934 contest of the Institute, these films haveprogressed through Europe and the Middle East. Veterans of numerous projections, the films are yet in excellentcondition. Japanese amateurs were particularly appreciative of “Sister,”produced by K. Takeuchi of Kyoto, and  ...  Further projections are planned in Nagoya, Osaka, Kyoto, and possibly Yokohama, after which the filmswill be sent to Australia.’ (‘Notes of the MovieClubs’ American Cinematographer v19 n1, March 1938, p.121)

·        Years of birth/ death are currently unknown

·        He owned akimono shop in Kyoto

·        When KodakJapan Limited established the Nippon 8 miri Kyōkai (8mm Film Association) inJune 1934, Takeuchi served as one of the board members

·        He was also aboard member of the Nippon 8 miri Eiga Renmei (8mm Film League)established in 1938

·        Takeuchipublished a number of writings in amateur film magazines published locally inthe Kansai region in the 1930s (which included cities such as Kyoto and Osaka.) The names of thesemagazines are Bebī kinema (Baby Kinema) and Patē kinema(Pathe Kinema), and the topics of his writings include the "theory andpractice of small-gauge filmmaking for educating children" (that appearedin several issues of the Patē kinema magazine in 1932 and19333) and a screenplay for a small-gauge production, titled Goldfish(April 1933 in Patē kinema)

·        Some of thesepublications included Takeuchi in a debate about the use of sequences fromother people’s films in new works, whether editing was enough to createoriginality (following some of Pudovkin’s ideas) or if a film had to be acompletely new creation

·        Some writingson amateur film in Japan include Noriko Morisue(she wrote her PhD at Yale on this topic) and Nada Hisashi, ‘The Little CinemaMovement in the 1920s and the Introduction of Avant-Garde Cinema in Japan’, Japan Society ofImage Arts and Society vol.3 (1994): 39-68.

I don’t have immediate access to these references, and none of thatdefinitively gives me Takeuchi’s Japanese spelling, so I’m just giving what Ihave, before the screening.

The questions are, is there any online resource on Japanese amateurfilmmakers, and can anyone (Noriko Morisue?) tell me more, please.

Roger

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