Japan
Japanese
00:06:00
9.5mm
Silent
A six-minute film that documents the annual procession of the Gion Festival in Kyoto on July 17, 1941. The film opens with several consecutive intertitles explaining a brief history of the festival. As he cut from one intertitle to the next, Hattori used the splicer to create the effect of a diagonal wipe, which made it appear as if the viewers were turning a page of a book.
Gion Matsuri was made available on a website for a limited period by the Art Research Center at Ritsumeikan University, “Gion Matsuri dejitaru myūjiamu—Gion Matsuri no kako, genzai, mirai” (The Gion Festival Digital Museum—The Past, Present, and Future of the Gion Festial).
Tokyo Bebī Kinema Kurabu [Tokyo Baby Kinema Club]
Kobe Planet Archive
Amateur Cinema