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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Woops. I meant 'Mark'.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Sorry Mark - I really should have spotted that, as it's
precisely the kind of mistake I always make.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>best,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Roger</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>----- Original Message ----- </FONT>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>From: "Roger Macy" <</FONT><A
href="mailto:macyroger@yahoo.co.uk"><FONT
face=Arial>macyroger@yahoo.co.uk</FONT></A><FONT face=Arial>></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>To: <</FONT><A
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face=Arial>KineJapan@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu</FONT></A><FONT
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Sent: Wednesday, November 11, 2009 12:45 PM</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Subject: Re: JF Waste?</FONT></DIV></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial><BR></FONT></DIV><FONT face=Arial>> Dear
Robert,<BR>> <BR>> I appreciate the meaty posts from you, Aaron and others
about the Japan <BR>> Foundation. They have been skilfully informative
and filled many gaps in my <BR>> knowledge. But this, of course, is my
point. It still remains today, on the <BR>> London office website, as I
reported, that the only information on "film <BR>> loan" is under "funding",
where most schedulers would not look. And since <BR>> it seems to offer
only the loan of a print in Tokyo, excluding shipping <BR>> costs, excluding
rights fees, without any hint how to obtain, beforehand, a <BR>> "loan
agreement made with the relevant distributors ", it's not obvious to <BR>> an
innocent scheduler that anything has been offered at all. It is <BR>>
certainly not obvious that the JF has prepaid or preagreed exhibition fees
<BR>> for many films, or that some are held more locally, or what vintage the
<BR>> films are. The posts on this thread clarify that something useful
is <BR>> obtainable to well-connected academics and curators, but, in my
opinion, if <BR>> the JF were ever to begin to get substantial take-up of
those purchased <BR>> rights, they would need to reach out to a wider, and
more provincial class <BR>> of arts programmers, to whom the existence of the
list is, I still maintain, <BR>> a secret.<BR>> <BR>>
Roger<BR>></FONT></BODY></HTML>