Seoul 7000 (1976)
By Hong-joon Kim
According to the information written in the credit roll of "Seoul 7000," the film was filmed in Seoul in November 1976 with an 'Elmo 108' 8mm camera using Kodachrome 40 film. It was also stated that "it was filmed frame by frame, and the shooting speed was adjusted differently for each shot," and "the number 7000 in the title of this film represents the total number of frames in all parts except for the title." "Seoul 7000" was co-directed by Hong-joon Kim and Joo-ho Hwang in 1976 (to quote Kim's own words, "it's not an independent film but a 'personal film'"), who were attending Seoul National University at the time, and won the creater award at the 3rd Korea Youth Film Festival (held at the Korea Film Council's screening room on June 10, 1977). The work, which documents the scenery from place to place in Seoul in the so-called 'comma shooting' method (shooting in frames at regular time intervals), is in the form of 'city symphony' that reconstructs Seoul's day following the temporal progress from dawn to sunrise and sunset to night. The early members of Seoul National University's film club 'Yalashung', the birthplace of the film movement in the 1980s, made it personally befor…
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