Osaka Bebī Kinema Kurabu [Osaka Baby Kinema Club]

Year Founded:

1926

Location:

Osaka, Japan

Film Formats:

9.5mm

Publication/Newsletter:

"Baby Kinema"

Resources:

Format assumption is made based on the name of the club.

"The first 9.5mm cine club was Osaka Bebī Kinema Kurabu (Osaka Baby Kinema Club) established in 1926 by figures such as Wakabayashi Masu and Katō Yutaka." - Noriko Morisue, "Filming the Everyday: History, Theory, and Aesthetics of Amateur Cinema in Interwar and Wartime Japan" (Yale University: PhD Dissertation, 2020): 34. "UNDER the auspices of the Osaka Asahi Shimbun, a great Japanese daily, the Baby Kinema Club has been organized. This club publishes a monthly magazine, the "Baby Kinema," we are told by K. Senow, an enthusiastic league member, who promises us that the members of the Baby Kinema Club will also become Amateur Cinema Leaguers. The amateur movie world is fast linking together and American clubs will welcome films from Japan." (Gale 124)

References:

Gale, Arthur L. "Amateur Clubs," Amateur Movie Makers 3, no. 2 (1928): 100:101, 124.