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| Festival Year |
Festival Section |
| 2011 |
The Birth of Anime: Pioneers of Japanese Animation |
| Film Title |
KEMURIGUSA MONOGATARI |
| Alternative Title 1 |
[Una storia di sigarette] |
| Alternative Title 2 |
[A Story of Tobacco] |
| Alternative Title 3 |
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| Country |
Japan |
| Release Date |
1924 |
| Production Co. |
Tokyo Jiyu Eiga-sha |
| Director |
Noburo Ofuji |
| Format |
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Speed (fps) |
| 35mm |
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24 |
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| Footage |
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Time |
| 280 ft. |
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3' |
| Archive Source |
National Film Center, Tokyo |
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| Print Notes |
Didascalie in giapponese, con sottotitoli in inglese / Japanese intertitles, with English subtitles. |
| Other Credits |
| anim: Noburo Ofuji |
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| Program Notes |
| Ofuji’s earliest extant film blends live footage and cut-out animation as it explores “the mysterious connection between a woman and a cigarette” (Akira Tochigi). It is not clear as to whether this was a test film, or whether it is a surviving fragment of a longer lost film. -- ALEXANDER JACOBY & JOHAN NORDSTRÖM |
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