japanese
Kamei Fumio Retrospective [Pre-War Works]

An Introduction to Radio: The Audience

(“Radio dokuhon choshusha no maki”)
- 1937/ B&W / Video / 24 min

Director: Kamei Fumio (Assumed)
Photography, Sound: P.C.L.
Production Company, Source: NHK

This film is a general explanation of the radio business. It explains sound waves, introduces the studio’s broadcast station, Tokyo’s AK Broadcast Center and the BK Broadcast Center in Osaka, then introduces a news broadcaster, an orchestra and a manzai comedy show. The film, structured as a narrative, advises that one must receive permission to listen to the radio and that the proof of permission must be affixed to one’s front gate. NHK owns a film version of this work but we will screen a video version.


• Kamei Fumio Retrospective [Pre-War Works] Hiking Song | Shape without Shape | An Introduction to Radio: The Audience | School Broadcasting | The Geology of Fuji | Airspace [Pre-War Documentary Films] Shanghai | Peking | Fighting Soldiers | Kobayashi Issa [Post-War Documentary Films] A Japanese Tragedy | Children of the Base | The People of Sunagawa | Wheat Will Never Fall | Still It’s Good to Live | Record of Blood: Sunagawa | The World Is Terrified: The Reality of the “Ash of Death” | Living in a Rough Sea | Fluttering Pigeons | Voice of Hiroshima | Men Are All Brothers | Towards a World without Arms | All Must Live: People, Insects and Birds | All Living Things Are Friends—Lullabies of Birds, Insects and Fish [Feature Films] War and Peace | A Woman’s Life | Become a Mother, Become a Woman | Woman Walking Alone on the Earth [PR and Educational Films] Poem of Life | Invitation to Japanese Architecture | Penmanship | Quiet Construction Methods | Living with Ideas: A Profile of Sharp | Let’s Weave a Rainbow | Hong Kong, Taipei | Norihei Travel Manners | The Southern Cross Is Calling | Wishing for Tomorrow’s Happiness [Other Works] Underwear Makes the Woman | The Models and the Photographer | Kamei on Kamei: A Record of Yesterday’s Film Production Discussion Group | Human Conceit: The World of Director Kamei Fumio