<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> "D'OH!!" and sorry.
Had my head full with programming films about camels, so I must have got
humps on my head. Although I'd done French and English language searches,
I'd somehow completely missed the Yamagata screening and also a listing
on the silent era database: http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/A/AinusAYeso1897-2.html.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">However, another search of French DVD
sites makes me think this title has only ever come on Japanese DVD release.
Keen to see this; trying to get a sense of extant first ethnographic
films of indigenous peoples for future programs, especially pre-1900 footage.</font>
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<br><font size=3>It may be on other compilations as well, but "Les
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set that Geneon brought out in Japan.<br>
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<br><font size=3>On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 11:41 PM, Mark Nornes <</font><a href=mailto:amnornes@umich.edu><font size=3 color=blue><u>amnornes@umich.edu</u></font></a><font size=3>>
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<br><font size=3>Could have sworn the Lumiere Ainu films were on one of
the DVD compilations. The one by Travenier?</font>
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<br><font size=3>The films are extant, and Institut Lumiere has them. There
are several other documentaries/home movies. As Mark wrote, I write about
these in my book. </font>
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<br><font size=3>In 1993, I also showed Japanese-made films about the Ainu
in Nibutani. The main footage was shot by a Scotsman, Neil Gordon Munro,
who also wrote one of the first monographs on them (Ainu Creed and Cult).
He was a doctor in Nibutani. </font>
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<br><font size=3>The films are owned by an anthropology institute in Tokyo,
so they are extant and can be programmed. Although the institute has it's
own compilations on video, and that may be the only thing within reach.
If you'd like their address, I've got it buried somewhere. </font>
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<br><font size=3>Maria-Jose also mentioned Chipuchisekor, which is how
he transliterated his name if I remember correctly. He was a great help
back when I was programming our First Nations event at Yamagata (1993).
At the time, he was also publishing his own little zine about Ainu representations
in film and video games. I have a stack of them somewhere, if a serious
researcher wanted to do work on them. </font>
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<br><font size=3>On Sep 10, 2011, at 3:37 AM, Mark Roberts wrote:</font>
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<br><font size=3>The Lumières film was entitled "Les Aïnous à Yéso",
and there were two parts. Information on the net is sketchy, but it looks
like these films are extant and screened at Yamagata in 1995. Markus Nornes
also discusses them in the first section of his "Japanese documentary
film: the Meiji era through Hiroshima".</font>
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My sidebar turns into a supplementary question: does any of the very early
Ainu footage you mention survive? I know the survival rate for Lumiere
titles is quite high, but whilst some tiles survive with Japanese scenes,
I've not seen any title that indicates Hokkaido or Ainu footage. </font><font size=3><br>
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Then - whilst my French is better than my Japanese - it's still not good
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Something else I forgot to mention,Makino Productions "Ainu no Musume"
from 1927,most likely without any Ainu in it although as Aaron has already
mentioned,any existing actor of Ainu origin would have concealed their
origins and in any case during the Meiji period most people had been forced
to adopt Japanese names.</font><font size=3> </font><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><br>
Actor Takashi Ukajo surprised the media by confessing he was actually of
Ainu origin when he was already 46 a few years ago!</font><font size=3>
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<hr><font size=2 face="Arial"><b>From:</b> Maria Jose Gonzalez <</font><a href=mailto:tkarsavina@yahoo.com target=_blank><font size=2 color=blue face="Arial"><u>tkarsavina@yahoo.com</u></font></a><font size=2 face="Arial">><b><br>
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Fascinating question.</font><font size=3> </font><font size=4><br>
Can you read Japanese,Peter?</font><font size=3> </font><font size=4><br>
The sadly departed and Kyoto-based Ainu scholar,Chupuchisekor -I apologise
if the romanised version is not correct,for I have never seen it- did a
very interesting series on "Images of Ainu in Japan" for Kyoto
Shimbun.</font><font size=3> </font><font size=4><br>
You can find it here</font><font size=4 face="Arial">:</font><font size=3>
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Available online,you will also find a summary for a seminar titled "Ainu
Culture and Media",where he discusses <br>
Ainu in films.</font><font size=3> </font><font size=3 color=blue><u><br>
</u></font><a href=http://www.frpac.or.jp/rst/sem/sem1109.pdf target=_blank><font size=4 color=blue><u>http://www.frpac.or.jp/rst/sem/sem1109.pdf</u></font></a><font size=3>
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The first Ainu moving images date from 1898 courtesy of the very own Lumière
Brothers so they predate Japanese cinema!Accounted next are documentary
films regarding the Russo-Japanese war,which geographically makes a lot
of sense .After these,the emphasis is on landscape/nature documentaries
and next he discusses some studio films.</font><font size=3> </font><font size=4><br>
Since so much has been lost,it is impossible to say for sure how much Ainu
appeared in <i>Yamato </i>productions but Chupinsenkor talks about three
Shochiku films from 1921 and 1922,mentioning there were others he did not
watch and where the Ainu were often depicted as bad characters.</font><font size=3>
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I have not watched the Naruse you cite but was this the case?</font><font size=3>
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Already at war,北の同胞-Northern Brothers ?-from 1941 is a Kokusaku
Eiga where both Ainu and Yamato people fight for their country...</font><font size=3>
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I am not that familiar with Ainu culture but will confess to finding this
information after watching Kimi no Na,which Chupu-san also discusses.</font><font size=3>
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There is not much available in English and it is a pity.Just a study of
name places and Japanese words that actually come from Ainu would be an
excellent read.</font><font size=3> <br>
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Maybe not strictly relevant, but have you seen the footage from </font><font size=3 color=#4f4f4f face="Arial">Benjamin
Brodsky</font><font size=2 color=#4f4f4f 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 </font><a href="http://www.filmpreservation.org/preserved-films/screening-room/a-trip-through-japan-with-the-ywca-ca-1919" target=_blank><font size=2 color=blue face="sans-serif"><u>http://www.filmpreservation.org/preserved-films/screening-room/a-trip-through-japan-with-the-ywca-ca-1919</u></font></a><font size=1 color=#4f4f4f face="Arial">
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I mention this as we are curious to know if there is any earlier surviving
material which shows Ainu community, whether drama or actuality?</font><font size=1 color=#4f4f4f face="Arial">
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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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I have not heard of any actors from that era who then or later termed themselves
Ainu. Perhaps there were some but because of factors such as discrimination,
which lead zainichi actors for instance to hide their backgrounds, did
not admit it publicly.<br>
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A good paper could be written about the representations of Ainu in Japanese
cinema, which incidentally could include Naruse's Kotan no kuchibue, as
well as other works like Kimi no na wa or Daisogen no wataridori.<br>
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