Shigeji Ogino

Ogino created films as an independent artist instead of becoming an occupational filmmaker and led Japans small gauge and amateur film communities while winning a number of awards both domestically and internationally. Since 1928 when he won his first award with Toowadako Lake Towada shot on Path Baby Ogino produced over 400 works until 1984 using 9.5mm 16mm and 8mm film. In addition to documentaries and travelogues many of his works prominently featured experimental animation using stop motion. At the international competition St. Teccian Cup held in Budapest Kaika Propagate 1935 and Hyougen An Expression 1935 won first place and Rhythm 1934 won second place. In his work Hyougen Ogino strived to produce natural color. He applied a method in which blackandwhite film frames alternately shot with red and green filters were painted alternately in red and green. Multicolored images would appear when the film was run twice as fast as usual. While producing films Ogino also wrote a number of articles for magazines for amateur film enthusiasts such as PathCine and Kogata Eiga . After WW2 he also held Ogino 8mm Film Courses and contributed to nurturing artists of the next generation.