Cinema year book of Japan (1937)

Record Details:

Title:
Cinema year book of Japan
Date:
1937
Publisher:
Tokyo : The Sanseido Co., Ltd.
Volume:
Cinema year book of Japan : 1936-1937
Leaf #:
000131
Language:
English
Collection:
Year Book, Japan, and Global Cinema
Format:
Periodicals
Contributor:
Media History Digital Library
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
March 21, 2024
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necessary, performers from outside the management. Aside from the theatre mentioned, there is the Toyoko Eiga Gekijo which offers from time to time light comedies to supplement that part of the program made up only of motion pictures. Also there are two theatres, among those of the more popular class, which are vaudefilms, the bill of which consists of both motion pictures and vaudeville, under the management of the Yoshimoto Kogyo-bu. Certain theatres have still another arrangement for offering stage attractions which, in the case of houses specializing in screening of imported films, usually take the form of performances by some foreign variety troupe visiting Japan, and, in the case of houses presenting Japanese films exclusively, of short acts in which the players of the company producing the films appear personally. Theatres which give about one hour to each performance of films, namely, those which may come under the term “News Theatres,” are springing up in other cities and towns. Though so classified, these theatres use bills which are not entirely of news reels but of a good mixture of news reels and films of short subjects. 57