River

Japanese: 《河》 - かわ
River


[Pre-World War II documentaries]
In the United States, in addition to Flaherty's works, the duo Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedesack, who would later produce the special effects monster movie King Kong (1933), produced films such as Above the Ground (1926), about nomadic Iranian people, Chang (1927), about rice farmers in Thailand, and African Expedition (1923), in which explorers Martin E. Johnson and his wife filmed the ecology of wild animals. Per Lorentz's The Plow That Breaks the Plains (1936) and The River (1937) are known as poetic documentaries in the style of Flaherty. In the Soviet Union, during the civil war that followed the October Revolution of 1917, film was evaluated as a "weapon of the cultural revolution," and short documentaries called "agiteka" (propaganda film) and "fronika" (documentary film) were made.

*Some of the terminology explanations that mention "river" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:


[第2次大戦前のドキュメンタリー]
 アメリカでは,フラハティの作品のほか,のちに特撮怪獣映画《キング・コング》(1933)を製作するメリアン・C.クーパーとアーネスト・B.シェードサックのコンビが,遊牧イラン民族を描いた《地上》(1926)やタイの稲作農民を描いた《チャング》(1927),探険家マーティン・E.ジョンソン夫妻が野獣の生態を撮影した《アフリカ遠征》(1923)などがつくられた。また,ペア・ロレンツの《平原を拓く鍬》(1936)と《河》(1937)はフラハティの流れをくむ詩情ゆたかなドキュメンタリーとして知られる。 ソ連では,1917年の10月革命につづく内戦のなかで,映画は〈文化革命の武器〉として評価され,〈アギトカ(宣伝映画)〉や〈フロニカ(記録映画)〉と呼ばれる短編ドキュメンタリーがつくられた。…

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