Nippon Amateur Cinema League
1929
Cherry Amateur Movie Society
Tokyo, Japan
9.5mm, 16mm, 35mm
Nippon Amateur Cinema League contest
"This department is very happy to present the first definite information of the activities of the Nippon Amateur Cinema League whose headquarters is at 509 Marunouchi Building, Marunouchi, Tokio, Japan. We are indebted to Masao H. Kawamoto, consultant, and to Masami Nishimura, editor of Amateur Movies, the publication of the Nippon League, for the news reports here presented. Regular news is promised to Movie Makers by these gentlemen.
A recent contest of the Nippon Amateur Cinema League awarded prizes as follows: Masuji Tejima, first prize, 125 meters, 16mm., a cinematic review of Tokio covering an entire day's time of visiting, which is said to compare favorably with Ruttman's Berlin; Koji Tsukamoto, second prize, 94 meters, 9.5mm., a study of snow scenes and winter sports, including scenes of athletic performances of visiting Norwegian skimen ; third prize, Class A, awarded to The Little Film Producing Association (cameramen, K. Yomada and H. Kameda, titles by H. Morita), 63 meters, 16mm., a motion picture study of Osaka, Japan's great industrial center; third prize, Class B, awarded to Sakunosuke Kiyosaka, 35 meters, 16mm., a sketch of a zoological garden.
Under the sponsorship of the Jiji Shimpo, a great Japanese daily newspaper, a public showing of amateur films was held at the newspaper's auditorium by the Nippon Amateur Cinema League before an audience of 1,000 persons. Kodascope and Bell & Howell projectors were used and the prize films referred to previously were shown, together with films by S. Kawai, a film review of Tokio, S. Nakamura. an excursion to Hakone, and Y. Mochida, a study of camera magic. The evening was completed with showings of commercial pictures in 16mm. editions." (Gale 652)
References:
Gale, Arthur L. "Amateur Clubs," Movie Makers 4, no. 10 (1929): 652:653, 673:677.
Amateur Cinema