Japan returned missing film about man and ape to Ukraine
The Alexander Dovzhenko National Center bought from Japan and returned to Ukraine a copy of the full-length scientific film “Man and the Monkey” (dir. Andrei Vinnitsky, 1930) found in the Japanese film archive, which until recently was considered lost, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
About this withThe Dovzhenko Center reports on its website.
“A positive 35 mm film copy of the film is now kept at the film storage facility of the Dovzhenko Center. “Man and Ape” was found in Tokyo’s National Film Center at the National Museum of Modern Art during archival searches and research into the connections of the VUFKU (All-Ukrainian Photo Film Administration, a state cinematographic organization that operated from 1922 to 1930) with the foreign film distribution system,” says in the message.
The Dovzhenko Center notes that a number of Ukrainian films from the late 1920s and early 1930s were once successfully shown on big screens in Japan. Among them are “Earth” and “Ivan” by Alexander Dovzhenko, “In Spring” by Mikhail Kaufman and, as it turned out during the search, the scientific film by Andrei Vinnitsky “Man and the Monkey”, which was screened in dozens of countries around the world, where it was re-dubbed.
The Japan National Film Center preserved a negative of the film, which made it possible to find it. A 35 mm black and white positive copy for Ukraine was made by the Japanese film copying laboratory IMAGICA West Corp. at the expense of the Dovzhenko Center. in Osaka on new generation film.
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