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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Thank you, Lawrence.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Two other honourable counter-examples appear to be the
Pacific Film Archive and La Cinémathèque Royale de Belgique/ <FONT
face="Times New Roman"><FONT face=Arial>Het Koninklijk Belgisch
Filmarchief</FONT>.</FONT> </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Roger</FONT></DIV>
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<A title=bird@ca.inter.net href="mailto:bird@ca.inter.net">Lawrence Bird</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Friday, September 05, 2008 1:21
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: Film archive catalogues,
previously Japan Foundation 16mm prints</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>Just an example from one other country (or perhaps two) : the
National Film Board of Canada and the Cinémathèque Québécoise both have
on-line catalogues, which seem to be extensive, well-organized, and
accessible; though the Cinémathèque makes it clear that in many cases they
only make films available for purposes of research.
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<DIV>Lawrence Bird,</DIV>
<DIV>PhD student, McGill University<BR>
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<DIV>On 5-Sep-08, at 5:22 AM, Roger Macy wrote:</DIV><BR
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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 <SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><BR>> they're happy to tell you
know if they've got prints of the films <SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><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. <SPAN class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><BR>Every
archive and film library that I've visited in America and Europe <SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><BR>has a catalog, most are
on-line, and they didn't vet each inquiry that <SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><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,<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><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>
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