Activities of TokyoCinema, Inc.
TokyoCinema, Inc. was established in 1954 by OKADA Sozo (1903-1983) with
the aim of producing documentary films of international and universal quality,
of the fields of education, science, and culture.
In the initial period, Tokyo Cinema Co., Inc., produced a number of high-quality
PR films for business corporations under corporations' sponsorship, and
attracted wide attention from both overseas and domestic.
Also, after its re-organization of the company in the 1970s, it has produced
TV programs which offers information on society and intellectual entertainment,
while it has produced science films of high quality and highly reputation.
One of the biggest appeals with TokyoCinema Inc. is that prominent staff
and advanced filming equipment formation, supported by wide range of cooperative
staff, enables TokyoCinema Inc. to produce excellent and tangible films
of nature, science, and human life.
TokyoCinema Inc. also has gained high reputation from commercial and public
broadcasting companies for its films of attractive contents for TV special
(and usually with a good length). Especially, TokyoCinema Inc. is outstanding
in producing programs of natural and cultural themes, as it has abundant
experience in filming throughout Japan from the northern tip to the southern
end, for both spheres of land and underwater, owing to its sufficient and
advanced filming equipment. Its expertise in overseas filming co-producing
with overseas film-makers is also a precious asset.
There are not a few occasions that TokyoCinema Inc. proceeds filming with
cooperation of experts and scholars at overseas local universities and
institutes especially for scientific films, that require special techniques
such as super closed shots, microscopic filming, and Time-lapse filming.
To cope with various situations and purposes, filming equipment is obtained
and arranged
to be swiftly carried to a designated sites
and immediately available.
The staff members of TokyoCinema, Inc. are all qualified; experienced and
familiarized with image anthropological themes, ethnological events, and
rapidly fading traditional cultures and entertainment. They have faith
and enthusiasm for preserving records of ethnological dynamism. For example,
to produce a comprehensive film on a festival or ritual, a filming team
is divided into a few groups to grasp every aspect at once, so that the
finished film can disclose whole picture of the festival or ritual in such
a manner that even visitors who went to site cannot cover.
For museums, universities, research institutes, and any other academic
educational organizations, TokyoCinema Inc. stores a substantial volume
of stock shots through diversified visual information networks, cultivated
through exchange and tie-up with other international visual organizations
and TV productions, such as Encyclopedia Cinematographica, whose headquarters
is in Goettingen, Germany.
It also exhibits a variety of subjects from the nature, peoples and culture,
plan and produce educational video packages. TokyoCinema Inc. promotes
that museums will utilize more actively images and films. It carries out
research, planning and producing of videos for preservation of cultural
properties. It has co-worked with CRUMIM , Center for Research in Use of
the Moving Image in Museum, Inc., an associate company founded in summer,
1994,
Since 1990, Tokyo Cinema Inc. has tried intensively to tie up with independent
film-makers sprouted in various regions of the former USSR after corruption
of the old totalitarian social structure. It also has promoted to provide
such films to Japanese broadcasting stations, and Japanese local museums.
Furthermore, from 1994, TokyoCinema Inc. has emphasized its business efforts
to establish co-filming relationship with those independent film-makers.
It has formed an efficient filming team, providing a set of NTSC/ENG equipment,
made available to the overseas local staff at any time upon demand.
TokyoCinema Inc. is just about to grow as international multi-media production
which delivers the best quality and art-of-state visual images for diversified
TV programs, scientific video films, and corporate PR films, which will
be accepted by clients of different cultures or those with different technological
state, or those who live on different places on the earth.
started 1998.09.20. final update 1999.12.06.
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