Author Archive for: ‘Aaron Gerow’
One print in the age of mechanical reproduction: film industry and culture in 1910s Japan
[1] Uploaded 1 November 2000 The September 1917 Katsudo no sekai (Movie World), containing probably one of the first attempts at a broad factual overview of the Japanese film industry, is a valuable resource to those studying the early Japanese film industry. For instance, in the corner of one page, the journal summarises the average budget of a four-reel, four-thousand foot shinpa or kyuha film (shinpa, …
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