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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Thank you for the continuing thread '<FONT size=3>Japanese
governmental agencies/film culture promotional policies', but can I confine
myself to clarifying the position on film archive
catalogues</FONT>?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>On Sep 4, 2008, at 1:56 AM, Mark Nornes wrote:<BR>>
They won't show you a list—neither will any archive out there—but <BR>>
they're happy to tell you know if they've got prints of the films <BR>>
you are interested in.<BR><BR>Mark Roberts said:-</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>The situation in Japan strikes me as the exception, not
the norm. <BR>Every archive and film library that I've visited in America
and Europe <BR>has a catalog, most are on-line, and they didn't vet each
inquiry that <BR>I made. Have I just been lucky?<BR></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Eija Niskanen said :-</FONT></DIV>
<DIV>Places like national film archives (say the Finnish
National<BR>Audio-visual Archive) operate on public tax payers' money, so
they<BR>have to have a certain openness, including their catalogues.</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>My experience has been that very few film catalogues are
available online - but I would be delighted to receive corrections or more
counter-examples. For example the Cinémathèque française, when you look up
'collections', you see a picture of their redoubt, but no catalogue. The
same in the less picturesque UK. But a good example to consider, because
they hold both objets d'art and films is MoMA, (NY). Just as for all the
major art galleries I know (except the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo),
they have a full on-line catalog of their art collection, <U>completely
illustrated</U>, but show no catalog of their films.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>If this were mainly to do with rights, you might expect
the reverse to be the case - most of the art collection of MoMA and other modern
art museums have unexpired rights and their commercial divisions are frequently
in the business of maximising their revenue from those rights. Whereas no
one is yet advocating illustrated, let alone playable, film catalogues of these
archives.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Roger</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>