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A view looking past a digital display screen towards the doors of an indoor theater, with

The Dawn of Showa

Posted by: Karen Fishman

Today’s post is by Zoran Sinobad, Reference Librarian in the Moving Image Research Center.   Shortly after 7 a.m. on November 6, 1928, two mounted policemen in green breeches and black tunics appeared on the stone bridge at the main entrance to the Imperial Palace in Tokyo, Japan.  They were followed by two officers of the …