Katsudō Shashin

Katsudō Shashin

animated short film

Title	活動写真
Genre	silent film, anime
Publication date	1907
Country of origin	Japan
Significant event	rediscovery
Copyright status	public domain

Katsudō Shashin (活動写真; "motion picture"), dem sam times call am de Matsumoto fragment, be a Japanese animated filmstrip from de Meiji era dat be de oldest known work of animation from Japan. Ein creator be unknown. Evidence dey suggest na dem make am sam wer between 1907 den 1912, so e fi predate de earliest displays of Western animated films insyd Japan. Na dem discover am insyd a collection of films den projectors insyd Kyoto insyd 2005.

De three-second filmstrip dey depict a boy wey dey wrep "活動写真", dey remove ein hat, den dey bow. Na de frames be stencilled insyd red den black dey use a device for making magic lantern slides, wey na dem fasten de filmstrip insyd a loop for continuous play.

Description

Katsudō Shashin

Katsudō Shashin dey consist of a series of cartoon images on fifty frames of a celluloid strip wey dey last three seconds at sixteen frames per second. E dey depict a young boy insyd a sailor suit wey wrep de kanji characters "活動写真" (katsudō shashin, "moving picture" anaa "Activity photo") from right to left, then dey turn to de viewer, removes ein hat, den bows. Katsudō Shashin be a provisional title for de film, wey ein actual title be unknown.

References

Works dem cite

• Litten, Frederick S. (2013). "Shōtai kenkyū nōto: Nihon no eigakan de jōei sareta saisho no (kaigai) animēshon eiga ni tsuite" 招待研究ノート：日本の映画館で上映された最初の（海外）アニメーション映画について [On the Earliest (Foreign) Animation Shown in Japanese Cinemas]. The Japanese Journal of Animation Studies (in Japanese). 15 (1A): 27–32.
• Litten, Frederick S. (17 June 2014). "Japanese color animation from ca. 1907 to 1945" (PDF). litten.de. Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 July 2014. Retrieved 18 June 2014.
• López, Antonio (2012). "A New Perspective on the First Japanese Animation". Published proceedings‚ Confia‚ (International Conference on Illustration and Animation)‚ 29–30 Nov 2012. IPCA. pp. 579–586. ISBN 978-989-97567-6-2.
• Matsumoto, Natsuki; Tsugata, Nobuyuki (2006). "Kokusan saikō to kangaerareru animēshon firumu no hakken ni tsuite" 国産最古と考えられるアニメーションフィルムの発見について [The discovery of supposedly oldest Japanese animation films]. Eizōgaku (in Japanese) (76): 86–105. ISSN 0286-0279.
• Matsumoto, Natsuki (2011). "映画渡来前後の家庭用映像機器" [Home movie equipment from the earliest days of film in Japan]. In Iwamoto, Kenji (ed.). Nihon eiga no tanjō 日本映画の誕生 [Birth of Japanese film] (in Japanese). Shinwa-sha. pp. 95–128. ISBN 978-4-86405-029-6.