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<DIV>The print we saw in that season may, if memory serves, have been from another source, not the NFC archive; I think it was better preserved than the standard NFC copy. But the NFC definitely have a print, though it isn't subtitled.</DIV>
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<DIV><BR><BR>--- On <B>Wed, 20/5/09, Mia Webster <I><Mia.Webster@RADIO-CANADA.CA></I></B> wrote:<BR></DIV>
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<DIV>Hello Sybil</DIV>
<DIV>Thank you for your reply.</DIV>
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<DIV>I did however already checked out the Tokyo Modern Museum of Art Film Center. I understood that they do not have documentaries, shorts, animation films nor foreign films, and that their feature films are only in Japanese. I therefore presumed they would not have copies of these two documentaries, which ideally I would like in English. I also tried searching their data base, but didn't find these films. <A href="http://search.artmuseums.go.jp/search_e/" target=_blank rel=nofollow>http://search.artmuseums.go.jp/search_e/</A></DIV>
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<DIV>Do you know someone there I could contact about this? I really appreciate your help,</DIV>
<DIV>Mia<BR><BR>>>> Sybil Thornton <camford1989@yahoo.com> 2009-05-20 00:17 >>><BR></DIV>
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<DIV>The Tokyo Modern Museum of Art Film Center has copies.</DIV>
<DIV>Cheers,</DIV>
<DIV>SAT<BR><BR>--- On <B>Tue, 5/19/09, Linda Ehrlich <I><linda.ehrlich@gmail.com></I></B> wrote:<BR></DIV>
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<DIV id=yiv911758644>Mia: I believe the Library of Congress has copies, but not for general circulation. Only for viewing there (a very interesting experience in itself). Linda Ehrlich<BR><BR>
<DIV class=gmail_quote>On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 11:40 AM, Mia Webster <SPAN dir=ltr><<A href="http://us.mc527.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=Mia.Webster@radio-canada.ca" target=_blank rel=nofollow>Mia.Webster@radio-canada.ca</A>></SPAN> wrote:<BR>
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<DIV>Name: Mia Webster<BR>Institutional affiliation or job: Visual researcher for CBC / Radio-Canada (French language Canadian public broadcaster)<BR>City and country: Montréal, Canada<BR>Research projects or publications: Currently working on doc on WWII<BR>Interests with regard to Japanese film and moving image media: </DIV>
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<DIV>For this current documentary project, I would like to view the following two Japanese films:<BR>- Chokoreto to heitai (Chocolate and soldiers), directed by Takeshi Sato, first aired in Osaka Nov 30, 1938<BR>- Nishizumi Senshacho-Den (The Story of Tank Commander Nishizumi), directed by Kosaburo Yoshimura, first aired at the Kokusai cinema, Nov 29, 1940<BR><BR>I haven't been able to find them on the web, at Amazon.ca nor Amazon.com, at any of our specialized video stores, at zip.ca... I contacted the Kawakita Memorial Film Institute in Japon, as well as The Asian Film Archives but they couldn't help. I searched the websites of the National Film Center of the NMOMA in Tokyo, and NHK but have come up with nothing. I also contacted the Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre here in Montreal, the Canada-Japan Society, the Japanese consulat of Canada, the Japan Society of New York, the Center for Asian American Media, and the Canadian
association of Asiatic Studies, but no-one was able to offer any other suggestions of where I might find these.<BR><BR>Anyone have any ideas?<BR><BR>Thank you, much appreciated,</DIV>
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