Silver Wheel
1955 · 12 min
Animation
★ 9.0Silver Wheel (Bicycle in Dream) is a PR film that was produced to promote the export of bicycles. However, Matsumoto Toshio, who was an employee of the Shin-riken Pictures, which had been contracted to produce the film, asked for the cooperation of Yamaguchi Katsuhiro, Kitadai Shozo and Takemitsu Toru, at the time members of Jikken Kobo, and also invited the participation of Tsuburaya Eiji, the leading expert in the field of special effects. Therefore, this work depicts a young boy’s dreams concerning a bicycle, while making the most of the realistic and materialistic character of bicycle parts and of surreal and fantasy-like scenes. Due to the course of its production and the fresh images and music used, this was seen as being the first example of experimental cinema in postwar Japan.
Crew
- Director Genichiro Higuchi
- Director Toshio Matsumoto
- Director Masao Yabe
- Screenplay Toshio Matsumoto
- Screenplay 北代省三
- Screenplay 山口勝弘
- Director of Photography Shuzaburo Araki
Crew
- Director — Genichiro Higuchi
- Director — Toshio Matsumoto
- Director — Masao Yabe
- Screenplay — Toshio Matsumoto
- Screenplay — 北代省三
- Screenplay — 山口勝弘
- Director of Photography — Shuzaburo Araki
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