| Unearthed Past: Japanese Colonial Period Play Film Collection / 1930s |
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Movies :
- <Sweet Dream> (Yang Ju-nam,1936) . 4:3 Full Screen | B/W | Dolbi Digital Mono | 48min - <Military Train> (Seo Gwang-je,1938) . 4:3 Full Screen | B/W | Dolbi Digital Mono | 67min - <Fisherman's Fire> (An Cheol-yeong,1939) . 4:3 Full Screen | B/W | Dolbi Digital Mono | 52min Special Feature : - ¡®Sweet Dream¡¯ Pre-restoration Edition (48 min) - ¡®Sweet Dream¡¯ Comparative Motion Picture of the Pre-restoration and Post-restoration Editions (3 min) - Motion Picture Unearthed in Gosfilmofond in Russia ¡®I Will Die under My Flag¡¯ (1930, Lee Ik, Okano Shinichi) (9 min) - Gosfilmofond Edition ¡®Fisherman¡¯s Fire¡¯ (13 min) - Motion Picture Unearthed in Gosfilmofond in Russia ¡®The Story of Shim Cheong¡¯ (1937, Ahn Seok-yeong (13 min) - Film Scene Collection Subtitles : Korean, English This is the second series after the ¡®Unearthed Past: Japanese Colonial Period Play Film / 1940s¡¯ which was released and received favorable comments from domestic and international film researchers. It contains films that show the sentiments and landscapes of Korea in the mid or late 1930s including the ¡®Sweet Dream¡¯ unearthed in 2005, ¡®Military Train¡¯ discovered in 2004, and ¡®Fisherman¡¯s Fire¡¯. ¡®Sweet Dream¡¯ is a melodrama dealing with a housewife, Ae-soon¡¯s (Mun Ye-bong) deviation and repentance, and you can see the editing method of Korean sound films in the 1930s. ¡®Military Train¡¯ is regarded as the first pro-Japan, pro-government Korean film. It is Seo Gwang-je¡¯s debut work as a film director. He was a film critic from KAPF. ¡®Fisherman¡¯s Fire¡¯ (38) is Ahn Cheol-yeong¡¯s debut work as a film director. It was also released in Japan as a ¡®Peninsula Movie¡¯ that contains the lyric landscapes of Korea. Ahn Cheol-yeong studied film in Germany. The DVD of each work also contains valuable appendix motion pictures which may please researchers both at home and abroad. The ¡®Sweet Dream¡¯ DVD contains Comparative Motion Pictures of the Pre-restoration and Post-restoration Editions for the purpose of comparison with the digital restoration edition of the original. The Military Train DVD contains ¡®I Will Die under My Flag¡¯, which was unearthed in Gosfilmofond in Russia. The ¡®Fisherman¡¯s Fire¡¯ DVD contains ¡®Fisherman¡¯s Fire¡¯ and ¡®The Story of Shim Cheong¡¯, which was also discovered in Gosfilmofond in Russia. |