Photographed by Masao Kume, a writer who was active from the Taisho era to the early Showa era, a part of the film whose contents could not be confirmed due to deterioration etc. was restored, and exchanges between literary figures at that time such as Katai Tayama and Satomi * Ton The situation was confirmed in the video.
This film was purchased by Koriyama City, Fukushima Prefecture, which has a connection with Masao Kume, from a relative of Kume, and two of them whose contents could not be confirmed due to deterioration etc. were repaired and investigated with Yokohama City University and others. ..
The results were summarized, and on the 26th, Professor Tatsuya Shoji of Yokohama City University reported online to Mayor Masato Shinagawa of Koriyama City.
According to this, a total of about 1 minute of footage shot around the Tama River was left on the two films, of which the film shot in April 1918 includes Kume himself and naturalistic literature. It was recorded that literary figures at that time, such as Katai Tayama, who is known as a representative writer of the film, and Satomi of the Shirakabaha * Ton, were chatting and walking along the river.
This is the first time that Tayama's footage has been confirmed.
In addition, another film, which seems to have been taken around the summer of the same year, shows a man and a woman in yukata boarding a houseboat, and you can see a man who seems to be Kume.
Professor Shoji said, "It is a valuable material that allows you to feel the existence of literary people at that time by seeing it moving as a video. For literary people, encountering the new media of the time with video is a way of expression. It may have been an opportunity to develop it. "
* "Ton" is the bow of "Atsushi"