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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Seeing as how the <SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Lumière
film,</SPAN> <EM>'</EM><SPAN class=psfl-title>Les Aïnus à Yéso</SPAN>'
isn't on my <SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">Fremoux/Tavernier
DVD issued by 'Kino Video'</SPAN>, I took the opportunity to ask Bryony Dixon,
the BFI silent film curator, whether the BFI had a copy. She has replied
that sadly no, but they do have a Selig film of 1913. The catalogue entry
is itself of another era, but I'll forward it as received.</FONT></DIV>
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class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Cambria><B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Courier; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">The AINUS OF JAPAN</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Courier; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> 1913 Selig 612592A
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class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Courier; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><FONT
face=Cambria>Note that the titles and intertitles are in
German. </FONT></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Courier; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><o:p><FONT
face=Cambria> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
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face=Cambria>The Ainus, a tribe of Japan are a Caucasian people rather than
Mongoloid race. This is our earliest film of the people and one of only two
films held by the Archive showing this particular tribe. An incredibly important
piece of film from an ethnographic and historical point of view especially when
it is considered that today only 12,000 people in Hokaido are of Ainu descent,
few of whom are purebloods. The film shows a dance performed by the women and a
ritual ceremony performed by men. The men have incredible beards lending truth
to the claim that they are famed as the hairiest race on earth. The moustaches
of the women are actually tattoos.</FONT></SPAN></P></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>This sounds rather like the sequence in the YMCA film but
since it predates it, I would guess it's a different film.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>So, if anyone could point me to the Japanese DVD of <SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Lumière that was mentioned, I'd
appreciate it.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Roger</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, September 11, 2011 10:44
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<DIV><BR></DIV><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: <A
href="http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/A/AinusAYeso1897-2.html">http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/A/AinusAYeso1897-2.html</A>.</FONT>
<BR><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> <BR><BR><FONT size=2 face=sans-serif>Hello to a few of you and
thanks to all for replies.</FONT> <BR><BR><FONT size=2 face=sans-serif>Quentin
Turnour, Programmer, <BR>Access, Research and Development<BR>National Film and
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<TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><BR></TR></TBODY></TABLE><BR><BR><BR><FONT size=3>It
may be on other compilations as well, but "Les Aïnous à Yéso" is definitely on
the first disc of the Les films Lumière set that Geneon brought out in
Japan.<BR><BR>Fred.<BR></FONT><BR><FONT size=3>On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 11:41
PM, Mark Nornes <</FONT><A href="mailto:amnornes@umich.edu"><FONT
color=blue size=3><U>amnornes@umich.edu</U></FONT></A><FONT size=3>>
wrote:</FONT> <BR><FONT size=3>Hi Quentin, </FONT> <BR><BR><FONT
size=3>Could have sworn the Lumiere Ainu films were on one of the DVD
compilations. The one by Travenier?</FONT> <BR><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> <BR><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> <BR><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> <BR><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> <BR><BR><FONT size=3>Markus</FONT>
<BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><FONT size=3>On Sep 10, 2011, at 3:37 AM, Mark Roberts
wrote:</FONT> <BR><BR><FONT size=3>Quentin,</FONT> <BR><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> <BR><BR><FONT size=3>HTH,</FONT> <BR><BR><FONT
size=3>M</FONT> <BR><BR><BR><FONT size=3>On Sep 10, 2011, at 11:29 AM, Quentin
Turnour wrote:</FONT> <BR><BR><FONT size=2 face=sans-serif><BR>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></FONT><FONT size=2 face=sans-serif><BR>Then - whilst my French is
better than my Japanese - it's still not good enough to fully access
French-language Lumiere scholarship.</FONT><FONT size=3> <BR></FONT><FONT
size=2 face=sans-serif><BR>QT</FONT><FONT size=3> <BR></FONT><FONT size=2
face=sans-serif><BR>Quentin Turnour, Programmer, <BR>Access, Research and
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size=3><BR><BR></FONT><FONT size=4 face="Times New Roman"><BR>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> <BR></FONT><FONT color=blue
size=3><U><BR></U></FONT><A href="http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/1927/bc003810.htm"
target=_blank><FONT color=blue size=4
face=Roman><U>http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/1927/bc003810.htm</U></FONT></A><FONT
size=3> <BR><BR></FONT>
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<FONT size=2 face=Arial><B>From:</B> Maria Jose Gonzalez <</FONT><A
href="mailto:tkarsavina@yahoo.com" target=_blank><FONT color=blue size=2
face=Arial><U>tkarsavina@yahoo.com</U></FONT></A><FONT size=2
face=Arial>><B><BR>To:</B> "</FONT><A
href="mailto:KineJapan@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu" target=_blank><FONT
color=blue size=2
face=Arial><U>KineJapan@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu</U></FONT></A><FONT size=2
face=Arial>" <</FONT><A href="mailto:KineJapan@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu"
target=_blank><FONT color=blue size=2
face=Arial><U>KineJapan@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu</U></FONT></A><FONT size=2
face=Arial>><B><BR>Sent:</B> Friday, September 9, 2011 4:47
PM<B><BR>Subject:</B> Re: Ainu actors in prewar Japanese film</FONT><FONT
size=3><BR></FONT><FONT size=4><BR>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> </FONT><FONT
color=blue size=3><U><BR></U></FONT><A
href="http://www6.plala.or.jp/fynet/2scrap411nihonnoainu.html"
target=_blank><FONT color=blue
size=4><U>http://www6.plala.or.jp/fynet/2scrap411nihonnoainu.html</U></FONT></A><FONT
size=3> </FONT><FONT size=4><BR>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 color=blue size=3><U><BR></U></FONT><A
href="http://www.frpac.or.jp/rst/sem/sem1109.pdf" target=_blank><FONT
color=blue
size=4><U>http://www.frpac.or.jp/rst/sem/sem1109.pdf</U></FONT></A><FONT
size=3> </FONT><FONT size=4><BR>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> </FONT><FONT
size=4><BR>I have not watched the Naruse you cite but was this the
case?</FONT><FONT size=3> </FONT><FONT size=4><BR>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> </FONT><FONT size=4><BR>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> </FONT><FONT size=4><BR>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><BR></FONT><FONT size=4><BR>Maria-Jose Gonzalez</FONT><FONT
size=3> <BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR></FONT><FONT color=#4f4f4f size=2
face=sans-serif><BR>Maybe not strictly relevant, but have you seen the footage
from </FONT><FONT color=#4f4f4f size=3 face=Arial>Benjamin Brodsky</FONT><FONT
color=#4f4f4f 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
</FONT><A
href="http://www.filmpreservation.org/preserved-films/screening-room/a-trip-through-japan-with-the-ywca-ca-1919"
target=_blank><FONT color=blue size=2
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
color=#4f4f4f size=1 face=Arial> </FONT><FONT color=#4f4f4f size=2
face=sans-serif><BR><BR>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 color=#4f4f4f size=1 face=Arial> </FONT><FONT
color=#4f4f4f size=2 face=sans-serif><BR><BR>Quentin Turnour, Programmer,
<BR>Access, Research and Development<BR>National Film and Sound Archive,
Australia<BR>McCoy Circuit, Acton, <BR>ACT, 2601 AUSTRALIA<BR>phone: </FONT><A
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color=#4f4f4f size=2 face=sans-serif> (Please email all invoices to this
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size=1 face=Arial><BR>Hello all,<BR><BR>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><BR>Pete</FONT><FONT size=3>
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<FONT size=2 face=Arial><B>From:</B> Aaron Gerow <</FONT><A
href="mailto:aaron.gerow@yale.edu" target=_blank><FONT color=blue size=2
face=Arial><U>aaron.gerow@yale.edu</U></FONT></A><FONT size=2
face=Arial>><B><BR>To:</B> </FONT><A
href="mailto:KineJapan@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu" target=_blank><FONT
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face=Arial><B><BR>Sent:</B> Wednesday, September 7, 2011 2:59
AM<B><BR>Subject:</B> Re: Ainu actors in prewar Japanese film</FONT><FONT
size=3><BR><BR>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><BR>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><BR><BR>Aaron Gerow<BR>Professor<BR>Film Studies
Program/East Asian Languages and Literatures<BR>Director of Undergraduate
Studies, Film Studies Program<BR>Yale University<BR>320 York Street, Room
311<BR>PO Box 208236<BR>New Haven, CT 06520-8236<BR>USA<BR>Phone:
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