2008-03-30, 04:56 | Link #1 | |
Bored Being
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91-year-old anime
from today edition of "Mainichi Daily News":
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2008-03-30, 05:09 | Link #2 |
Buddhajew
Join Date: Jan 2008
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91 years old? Wow, that's even older than I am!
Actually, though, if it's that old, it must have been dreadfully difficult. He/She/They would have had to draw each individual frame, and I'd say there was at least one frame per second, and for two minutes, it's 100 frames at the very least (if they rounded), though it could have easily been more. |
2008-03-30, 18:59 | Link #5 |
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Film was available in the late 1800s though it was purely a "tinkering inventor" thing. I'm trying to remember whether there's any *animation* film older than these two. Most of the American and French stuff I can think of is 1910s or later.
Lucky find on their part...
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2008-03-31, 02:06 | Link #8 |
Obey the Darkly Cute ...
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There's no sound, however, the films come with a narrative that someone is supposed to read aloud dramatically in the theatre where the film is presented.
sooooooo, it *could* have subs
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2008-03-31, 04:34 | Link #9 |
Gamilas Falls
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Isn't "anime" considered a style of animation rather than animation from a particular location? Thus wouldn't this 91 year old production be correctly classifed as a "cartoon" as it pre-dates the anime style that I believe started in the 1940s (during the war).
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2008-03-31, 12:46 | Link #12 | |
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2008-04-09, 07:14 | Link #14 |
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According to Article 54 of Japanese Copyright Law, it requires seventy years for a cinema work to fall onto public domain after its publication. However, before the 2003 amendment, the expiracy period was fifty years. The 2003 amendment provides that the amendment does not affect the works that had already gotten the status of public domain when the amendment took in force (1 Jan 2003). Japanese law and US law are interoperative through the Berne Convention.
IN SHORT, The Namakura Gatana fell onto public domain in 1967. Don't worry about that. However, the right to authorship and freedom from distortion (moral rights) do not expire by the time passing. And also it should be noted that the narration (for the film itself has no sounds, it needs live narration by actors) has independent rights. |
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