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630 M. Ruox [J. S. M. P. E.
1931, two producing companies were added to the list, Bantsuma Productions and Takarazuka Eiga K. K.
FILMS AND EMULSIONS
Three firms are now receiving yearly subsidies from the Japanese government to help them to manufacture sensitized film of good marketable quality. Roll film, plates, and papers are already being produced, and now the attention of these firms is centered on motion picture film: positive film to start with, and later on, negative emulsions. Toyo Kanpan K. K., who were the first to attempt to manufacture motion picture films, are a subsidiary of the Dai Nippon Celluloid Company. During 1930 the research work of both the Dai Nippon Celluloid Company and the Toyo Kanpan was diverted to the manufacture of safety film, possibly as the result of the several serious film fires that recently occurred in Japan.
The Oriental Photo Industry Company, Limited, who have earned a certain reputation in the Far East for their "Oriental" papers, have recently enlarged their Tokyo factory and imported from Germany all the machinery needed to make film in 1000-foot lengths. While the new buildings were going up and the machines were being erected, the Oriental research laboratories kept busy experimenting with film supports and emulsions. It is anticipated that their first film will appear on the market during 1932. Subsidized firms are encouraged by the government but their subsidies will be renewed only if, after a few years of research, a marketable article is produced.
The third runner up, in this subsidized raw stock race, is the Rokuosha factory, owned by R. Konishi & Co., one of the oldest and most prosperous wholesalers in photographic goods. Rokuosha entered the field of sensitized products in 1929 with their Japanese-made Roll Film, "Sakura." They are now bringing out filmpack, and are planning the more ambitious manufacture of motion picture film.
On February 25, 1931, the Jiji Shimpo, a daily paper appearing in Tokyo, announced the completion of the researches made by S. Hiraumi, who for the past ten years has been trying to make motion picture raw film in Japan. Manufacturing plans are well under way, and a factory is being built near Tokyo. Production plans call for three million feet to be made monthly.
By 1935 we should therefore see three, if not four, Japanese firms manufacturing 35 mm. positive, and perhaps negative film.