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Toho and Shochiku circuits of theatres also show films produced by the two outstanding newspaper firms, but by selecting the films from one or the other to suit their own con¬ venience.
As to the technical routine in the making of these news pictures, the work is as¬ signed respectively to the Shashin Kagaku Kenkyusho (The Photo Chemical Laboratory) by the Asa hi World News, to the Yakohama Cinema Shokai (The Yokohama Cinema Company) by the Tokyo Nichi Nichi-Osaka Mainichi International News, and to the Ei-on Shokai (The Ei-On Company) by both the All-Japan Sound News Press League and the Yomiuri News. The Hochi Talkies make their pictures in collaboration with the Toa Hassei News Eiga Seisakusho (The Toa Sound News Company).
The screening in japan of news pictures of the Olympic Games — already referred to — created a considerable sensation among the public and in this work the Asahi World News and the Tokyo Nichi Nichi-Osaka Mainichi International News, both in co-opera¬ tion with foreign news picture companies, vied most intensely with each other. The Asahi edited their films together with Ufa, while its rival, the Tokyo Nichi Nichi, with the Bavaria Pictures. Driven by the exigencies of the time the two Japanese firms have since come to establish with foreign producers a relation that is almost perfect, so that today the theatre-goers in Japan can witness happenings in other parts of the world as easily as they can see those in their own land. With a view to co-operating likewise with some foreign news picture producer, the Toa Hassei News Eiga Seisakusho had been established recently. Also the All-Japan Sound News Press League, on the other hand, though of a more recent birth, seems to have began active work.
In the production of news pictures, there has been formed, with these firms as its nucleus, the Nippon News Jissha Eiga Remmei (The Japan Pictorial News League) which, with assistance from Various departments of the government such as the Department of Foreign Affairs, the Department of Home Affairs, the Dep. of the Railways, the Dep. of Education, Dep. of War, Dep. of Navy, is engaged in supplying its member firms with news material as well as offering them facilities in the filming of news pictures. The League has enrolled in it, in addition to the already mentioned firms specializing in news pictures, all firms whose object is the production of cinema in a broader sense of the term.
There are at present only two foreign firms — the Metro and the Paramount — engaged directly in filming of their news pictures in Japan. Fox, who until recently had their own camera unit in Japan, have, however, withdrawn their men from the field, having concluded with the Asahi a contract for exchange of news films.
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