Film Record: Tender Friendship

Date produced: 1933

Filmmaker(s):

Tatsuichi Okamoto

Country of Production:

Japan

Length:

1 reel (150 ft)

Format:

8mm

Colour:

B&W

Sound Notes:

Silent

Awards/Recognition:

American Cinematographer Amateur Movie Makers Contest, 1934 - Photography

Description:

"Okamoto's heroine was a Japanese girl making a doll as a birthday present for a friend. Pictorial values, backgrounds of the Japanese countryside in spring, and the delicate grain which Cinematographer Okamoto had achieved gave his film distinction." American Cinematographer, Feb. 1935, 78.

"'Tender Friendship,' in 150 feet of 8mm film, was sensational from the photographic standpoint. Its sheer beauty, its poetic rhythm both in story and photography, made it one of the outstanding pictures of the contest" American Cinematographer, Dec. 1934, 365.

Resources:

Tender Friendship's win in the American Cinematographer contest of 1934 was reported on in Time magazine (Jan. 7, 1935, 55), which is reprinted in American Cinematographer (Feb. 1935, 78).

Locations:

• Japan (Filming)

Subjects:

• Ethnology
•      Manners and Customs
•           Country life
• Nature
• Asia
•      Japan

Genre:

• Family

Form:

• Short

Tags:

Screenings:

• Screened by the Medford Amateur Movie Club in 1935: Medford, OR
• Screened by the Metropolitan Motion Picture Club in October of 1935: New York City, N.Y.
• Screened by the New York 8mm. Motion Picture Club in 1944: New York City, N.Y.

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