<div dir="ltr">I would definitely check out the Ongaku-Eizo Shiryoshitsu of the National Diet Library. They started collecting video late, but they have significant holdings in VHS. Go with titles of individual works and series. Without them, it will be hard to find things because of a strange cataloguing system. Let us know what you find!<div>
<br></div><div>Markus</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 8:27 AM, Alex Zahlten <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Alex.Zahlten@gmx.de" target="_blank">Alex.Zahlten@gmx.de</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:12.0px"><div>Hi Joseph,</div>
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<div>V-Cinema, despite the name, (what is left of the production/distribution infrastructure) is now issued on DVD. As for the majority of titles that were sold on VHS in the 1990s and early 2000s, they were never transferred to DVD or re-released on DVD. When I last checked (years ago), V-Cinema was practically absent from any institution that collects or preserves VHS formats. It is usually very low on the priority list- mostly it is seen as low-budget trash not worthy of preservation. Adult Video of course has the same issue. I'm not sure how well V-Cine companies like Museum or KSS themselves preserve copies, but I would not be optimistic.</div>
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<div>Alex</div>
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<div style="margin:0 0 10px 0"><b>Gesendet:</b> Samstag, 23. November 2013 um 04:18 Uhr<br>
<b>Von:</b> "Oliver Dew" <<a href="mailto:olidew@gmail.com" target="_blank">olidew@gmail.com</a>><br>
<b>An:</b> "Japanese Cinema Discussion Forum" <<a href="mailto:kinejapan@lists.service.ohio-state.edu" target="_blank">kinejapan@lists.service.ohio-state.edu</a>><br>
<b>Betreff:</b> Re: [KineJapan] VHS Preservation in Japan</div><div><div class="h5">
<div name="quoted-content">Hello Joseph<br>
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Thank you for your interesting question. Regarding the second part of your query, I suppose it depends on what you mean by VHS preservation. I'm not familiar with the Video at Risk program, but just from briefly looking at their website, they discuss ascertaining IP, scope, prioritisation, and reformatting. These are all archival functions, aren't they? You seem to discount archives, but why not include them in your research question? I don't know which archives you've been in touch with. I understand that the National Film Center has been acquiring works on various video formats. Also, not V-Cinema, but the Video Art Center Tokyo has a library of historically significant video works:<br>
<a href="http://www.vctokyo.org/jp/" target="_blank">http://www.vctokyo.org/jp/</a><br>
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I'd be really interested to hear what the V-Cinema experts on the list have to say about the first part of your question...<br>
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Oliver Dew<br>
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On 19 Nov 2013, at 04:41, Joseph Larsen <<a href="mailto:larse635@umn.edu" target="_blank">larse635@umn.edu</a>> wrote:<br>
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> Hello,<br>
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> I am doing research on VHS preservation in the U.S. and Japan and was wondering if there are any known statistics regarding V-Cinema. I am mostly curious if there are V-Cinema titles in danger of disappearing once the VHS medium fades away, so are there a number of titles that were released on VHS that never made it to any other formats?<br>
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> Also, are there any groups or institutions in Japan currently doing VHS preservation work like the Video at Risk program at NYU? So far, I have only been able to locate archives for the medium but no active preservation programs.<br>
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> Thanks,<br>
> Joseph Larsen<br>
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