Film Amateur Society

Year Founded:

1930

Location:

Tokyo, Japan

Film Formats:

16mm, 35mm

Publication/Newsletter:

Film Amateur; news sections in Kinema Jumpo, Baby Cine Magazine, Amateur Movies

Resources:

"From Masao H. Kawamoto comes a report of the progress of the Film Amateur Society in Tokyo, Japan. This active organization has constructed a research laboratory for members' use, publishes a monthly periodical in Japanese on movie making technique as well as pamphlets on specific problems, holds regular monthly programs and an annual competition, supplies news of amateur cine activities to all general news publications in Japan and conducts a regular amateur movie department in Kinema Jumpo, Japan's oldest motion picture trade paper." (Gale 85)

Selected references:

Gale, Arthur L. "Amateur Clubs," Movie Makers 5, no. 3 (1930): 153, 183:185.

Gale, Arthur L. "Amateur Clubs," Movie Makers 5, no. 7 (1930): 422, 443:447.

Gale, Arthur L. "Amateur Clubs," Movie Makers 6, no. 2 (1931): 84:85, 112:114.

Gale, Arthur L. "Amateur Clubs," Movie Makers 6, no. 4 (1931): 203, 222:226.

Gale, Arthur L. "Amateur Clubs," Movie Makers 6, no. 9 (1931): 483, 496:498.

Frequent references thereafter.