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| Festival Year |
Festival Section |
| 2011 |
The Birth of Anime: Pioneers of Japanese Animation |
| Film Title |
FELIX NO MEITANTEI |
| Alternative Title 1 |
[Il detective Felix nei guai] |
| Alternative Title 2 |
[Detective Felix in Trouble] |
| Alternative Title 3 |
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| Country |
Japan |
| Release Date |
1932 |
| Production Co. |
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| Director |
Shigeji Ogino |
| Format |
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Speed (fps) |
| 35mm |
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16 |
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| Footage |
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Time |
| 680 ft. |
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9' |
| 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., prod: Shigeji Ogino |
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| Program Notes |
| The influence of animation from the United States helped to transform and modernize the style of Japanese animation in the early 1930s, when numerous American cartoons were screened in Japan. Among the most popular was Otto Messmer’s Felix the Cat, who features in this light-hearted puppet film in the role of a detective, enlisted by a girl, Hanako, to search for her stolen shoes. Ogino used miniature sets, decorated both in Asian and in expressionistic fashion, as a backdrop for the actions of his animal puppets. -- ALEXANDER JACOBY & JOHAN NORDSTRÖM |
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