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| Festival Year |
Festival Section |
| 2001 |
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| Film Title |
NIPPON NANKYOKU TANKEN |
| Alternative Title 1 |
[JAPANESE EXPEDITION TO ANTARCTICA] |
| Alternative Title 2 |
[SPEDIZIONE GIAPPONESE IN ANTARTIDE] |
| Alternative Title 3 |
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| Country |
Japan |
| Release Date |
1911-1912 |
| Production Co. |
M. Pathe |
| Director |
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| Format |
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Speed (fps) |
| 35mm |
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16 |
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| Footage |
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Time |
| 1120 ft. |
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20' |
| Archive Source |
National Film Center |
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| Print Notes |
Didascalie in giapponese / Japanese intertitles. |
| Other Credits |
| Taizumi, Yasunao (ph.) |
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| Other Information |
Donald Sosin, pianoforte.
prima proiezione / released 28.6.1912 |
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| Program Notes |
| Lieutenant Shirase's expedition party departed for Antarctica on 28 November 1910, but bad weather forced them to remain in Sydney that winter. Because of the expedition's importance, Count Shigenobu Ohkuma decided to document it via the motion picture camera, and asked Shokichi Umeya to send a cameraman to Sydney. In November of the following year, cameraman Yasunao Taizumi of M. Pathe joined the expedition party to film their activities. Taizumi then went to Antarctica with Lieutenant Shirase and his party, and filmed about 4000 feet of film there with his Warwick camera. The film of their successful expedition, Nippon Nankyoku Tanken, premiered in Tokyo in 1912. Lieutenant Shirase later used the film many times while lecturing. - HK |
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