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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Maybe not strictly relevant, but have
you seen the footage from </font><font size=3>Benjamin Brodsky</font><font size=2 face="sans-serif">'s
A TRIP THROUGH JAPAN WITH THE YWCA which includes 1919 shots of the Ainu
community? The NFSA recently restored it in collaboration with the National
Film Preservation Foundation in the US. See http://www.filmpreservation.org/preserved-films/screening-room/a-trip-through-japan-with-the-ywca-ca-1919</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">I mention this as we are curious to
know if there is any earlier surviving material which shows Ainu community,
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<br><tt><font size=2>Hello all,<br>
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This will be an odd question, but does anyone know if there were any<br>
Ainu actors in prewar Japanese film? I have seen a couple of silents<br>
recently which featured actors that look like they might, in fact, be<br>
of Ainu decent, though I could just be seeing things. The western<br>
looking man in Naruse's "No Blood Relation" (1932) comes to mindPardon<br>
me if this is an odd question.<br>
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