Sadanobu Iida

Biography

Sadanobu Iida is a small-gauge film researcher. Sadanobu worked  for 10 years as an assistant cinematographer and SFX/VFX technician at Shirogumi Inc., involved in the production of commercial animations. He is the author of Report: Senzen kogata eiga shiryo shu (Film Preservation Society: Small Gauge Dept, 2009), Toy Film Museum Booklet 3: The Age of Pathé-baby (co-authored with Noriko Morisue, Toy Film Museum, 2017), supervisor of 9.5mm films for TV drama and the theatrical release version of Wife of a Spy (2020), directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa. He supervised the film equipment collection for the launch of the website opened in 2023 called “Film Heritage – National Film Archive Film Material Portal” (https://nfajfilmheritage.jp).