Oldest japanese animation movie found in Kyoto
Looks like japan is going to join france and the US as animation pioneer countries. According to this article a recent found would date the first japanese animation picture in 1907.
Jasper Sharp of midnight eye fame is skeptical about it as stated in this post from the kinema club maling list :
“…J. Stuart Blackton’s incredibly
primitive looking Humorous Phases of a Funny Face, a series of chalk
drawings, was only made in 1906…”
“This seems to be akin to
saying that Japan invented animation. I, for one, am not convinced at all
by this discovery.”
Sharp has written a very good paper on japanese animation history for midnight eye. You can read it here.
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