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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Wonderful tale!</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Just checked the UCLA Film and TV Archives's page on the LA Benshi-o-rama screenings here: <a href="https://cinema.ucla.edu/events/2024/04/19/page-of-madness-shorts" class="enhancr_card_4648693408" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Off-site: A Page of Madness + short films | UCLA Film & Television Archive</a>. They list the source as a NFAJ DCP. </div><div><div><br></div></div></div><div><br></div><div id="ydpc0ffcf7denhancr_card_4648693408" class="ydpc0ffcf7dyahoo-link-enhancr-card ydpc0ffcf7dymail-preserve-class ydpc0ffcf7dymail-preserve-style" style="max-width:400px;font-family:YahooSans VF, YahooSans, OpenSans VF, Helvetica Neue, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" data-url="https://cinema.ucla.edu/events/2024/04/19/page-of-madness-shorts" data-type="YENHANCER" data-size="MEDIUM" contenteditable="false"><a href="https://cinema.ucla.edu/events/2024/04/19/page-of-madness-shorts" style="text-decoration-line: none !important; text-decoration-style: solid !important; text-decoration-color: currentcolor !important; color: rgb(0, 0, 0) !important;" class="ydpc0ffcf7dyahoo-enhancr-cardlink" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><table class="ydpc0ffcf7dcard-wrapper ydpc0ffcf7dyahoo-ignore-table" style="max-width:400px" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td width="400"><table class="ydpc0ffcf7dcard ydpc0ffcf7dyahoo-ignore-table" style="max-width:400px;border-width:1px;border-style:solid;border-color:rgb(224, 228, 233);border-radius:2px" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td class="ydpc0ffcf7dcard-primary-image-cell" style="background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: cover; position: relative; border-radius: 2px 2px 0px 0px; min-height: 175px;" valign="top" height="175" bgcolor="#000000" background="https://s.yimg.com/lo/api/res/1.2/6OLqMK7ZqalEYNVZdG_rhg--~A/Zmk9ZmlsbDt3PTQwMDtoPTIwMDthcHBpZD1pZXh0cmFjdA--/https://cinema.ucla.edu/sites/default/files/styles/Large/public/images/pages/Jiraiya_the_Hero2_1921_National_Film_Archive_of_Japan_400x300.jpg?itok=JEi5Oik0.cf.jpg"><!--[if gte mso 9]><v:rect fill="true" stroke="false" style="width:396px;height:175px;position:absolute;top:0;left:0;"><v:fill type="frame" color="#000000" src="https://s.yimg.com/lo/api/res/1.2/6OLqMK7ZqalEYNVZdG_rhg--~A/Zmk9ZmlsbDt3PTQwMDtoPTIwMDthcHBpZD1pZXh0cmFjdA--/https://cinema.ucla.edu/sites/default/files/styles/Large/public/images/pages/Jiraiya_the_Hero2_1921_National_Film_Archive_of_Japan_400x300.jpg?itok=JEi5Oik0.cf.jpg"/></v:rect><![endif]--><table class="ydpc0ffcf7dcard-overlay-container-table ydpc0ffcf7dyahoo-ignore-table" style="width:100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td class="ydpc0ffcf7dcard-overlay-cell" style="background-color: transparent; border-radius: 2px 2px 0px 0px; min-height: 175px;" valign="top" bgcolor="transparent" background="https://s.yimg.com/cv/ae/nq/storm/assets/enhancrV21/1/enhancr_gradient-400x175.png"><!--[if gte mso 9]><v:rect fill="true" stroke="false" style="width:396px;height:175px;position:absolute;top:-18px;left:0;"><v:fill type="pattern" color="#000000" src="https://s.yimg.com/cv/ae/nq/storm/assets/enhancrV21/1/enhancr_gradient-400x175.png"/><v:textbox inset="0,0,20px,0"><![endif]--><table class="ydpc0ffcf7dyahoo-ignore-table" style="width: 100%; min-height: 175px;" height="175" border="0"><tbody><tr><td class="ydpc0ffcf7dcard-richInfo2" style="text-align:left;padding:15px 0 0 15px;vertical-align:top"></td><td class="ydpc0ffcf7dcard-actions" style="text-align:right;padding:15px 15px 0 0;vertical-align:top"><div class="ydpc0ffcf7dcard-share-container"></div></td></tr></tbody></table><!--[if gte mso 9]></v:textbox></v:rect><![endif]--></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td><table class="ydpc0ffcf7dcard-info ydpc0ffcf7dyahoo-ignore-table" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-size: auto; position: relative; z-index: 2; width: 100%; max-width: 400px; border-radius: 0px 0px 2px 2px; border-top: 1px solid rgb(224, 228, 233);" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" align="center"><tbody><tr><td style="background-color:#ffffff;padding:16px 0 16px 12px;vertical-align:top;border-radius:0 0 0 2px"></td><td style="vertical-align:middle;padding:12px 24px 16px 12px;width:99%;font-family:YahooSans VF, YahooSans, OpenSans VF, Helvetica Neue, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;border-radius:0 0 2px 0"><h2 class="ydpc0ffcf7dcard-title" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px 0px 6px; font-family: YahooSans VF, YahooSans, OpenSans VF, Helvetica Neue, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(29, 34, 40); max-width: 314px;">Off-site: A Page of Madness + short films | UCLA Film & Television Archive</h2><p class="ydpc0ffcf7dcard-description" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; color: rgb(151, 158, 168);"></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></a></div><br><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">UCLA Film and TV Archive catalogue makes no mention of the film, nor of any Japanese silents, which means they shipped it to the NFC. Still a little odd though. Repatriation of these sort of things amongst FIAF member archives has long been standard, especially as the fate of many Japanese pre-Pacific War films to end up in Russian, US, or German archives has been discussed in this listserv before. But the deal is normally that the finder archive gets a copy, if they are FIAF. It's just that most don't follow-up. <br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">AV archiving now has little romance. If I've got it right and you once walked out of the UCLA vault with a nitrate print that probably wouldn't happen now - and is illegal in most jurisdictions. Even if your name is David Shepherd. Most AV archivists will tell you - and a little time spent over at the AMIA listserve will confirm - that most of their work these days is with digits. Entering metadata, moving big data around (and fighting with IT guys about it), scanning media in, out and about. <br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">I just signed off on the restoration of an early Peter Weir co-directed feature, and barely saw the original film in the workflow. Been a long time since I had my loupe out; set to macro, the camera on my mobile gets more detail.<br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><span>Video preservation is maybe a bigger headache than film, and actually
sometimes more exciting (especially if you are a millennial) - a point
I'm making conscious of the fact that the state of Japanese analogue
video preservation should be more of a topic than it is.</span> Even Kodak film (as it still exists now) has computer-readable only edge codes. <br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Quentin Turnour.,</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">National Archives of Australia<br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div><br></div>
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On Monday, 29 April 2024 at 05:45:03 pm AEST, Markus Nornes via KineJapan <kinejapan@mailman.yale.edu> wrote:
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<div><div id="ydpb3aa978eyiv3043921579"><div><div dir="ltr">Quick followup. <div><br clear="none"></div><div>Back in grad school, I toyed with the possibility of going into archive work and film restoration. My professor for silent cinema at USC was David Shepard, and he graciously gave me a tutorial on the subject. I spent a lot of time at his lab/office/"archive," which was filled to the gills with all sorts of cool stuff. I vividly recall his teaching me how to read the film codes at the edges of prints with a small loupe. As an aside, he said, "You know, I got that from Flaherty. He cut Aran with that." Whoa. Anyway, as part of the independent study I was to attempt to work on a film. I found the unrestored, nitrate print of a Japanese film at the UCLA archive. Confirmed that the National Film Archive of Japan didn't have it. And UCLA let me extract the print to attempt a restoration. Thing is, it's expensive and try as I might I couldn't find any support for doing it. In the end, I returned the print to UCLA. And the Film Center was happy to learn of its existence. That was <i>Sanji Goto,</i> and I noticed the Yanai Initiative included it in their program. I wonder if it's the UCLA print????</div><div id="ydpb3aa978eyiv3043921579yqtfd25094" class="ydpb3aa978eyiv3043921579yqt0410996166"><div><br clear="none"></div><div>Markus</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div><br clear="none"></div><div><br clear="none"></div></div><div><div id="ydpb3aa978eyiv3043921579yqtfd84551" class="ydpb3aa978eyiv3043921579yqt0410996166"><br clear="all"></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="ydpb3aa978eyiv3043921579gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div id="ydpb3aa978eyiv3043921579yqtfd46474" class="ydpb3aa978eyiv3043921579yqt0410996166"><div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(136,136,136);">--- </span></div></div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div id="ydpb3aa978eyiv3043921579yqtfd86259" class="ydpb3aa978eyiv3043921579yqt0410996166"><div style="font-size:small;"><font face="courier new, monospace" color="#274e13"><b><img src="https://ci3.googleusercontent.com/mail-sig/AIorK4wpadRRhHYSz0N5UbUflm2YEIclCcg0bTCCBEh81fkJ8isCMwomHpMoky49pEF7xzc4MTMR-PM" data-inlineimagemanipulating="true" width="55" height="96"><br clear="none"></b></font></div><div style="font-size:small;"><font face="courier new, monospace" color="#274e13"><b>Markus Nornes</b></font></div></div><div style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:monospace;"><font style="background-color: inherit;" color="#38761d"><b>Professor of Asian Cinema</b></font></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><blockquote style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: none; border-width: medium; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex;"><font size="1" color="#38761d"><font face="courier new, monospace">Department of Film, Television and Media</font><span style="font-family:monospace;">, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, Penny Stamps </span><span style="font-family:monospace;">School of Art & Design</span></font></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: none; border-width: medium; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex;"> </blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: none; border-width: medium; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex;"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b><u><span style="background-color:rgb(182,215,168);">Homepage: <a shape="rect" href="http://www-personal.umich.edu/~nornes/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><font color="#ffffff">http://www-personal.umich.edu/~nornes/</font></a></span><font color="#6aa84f"><br clear="none"></font></u></b></font><font size="1" face="courier new, monospace" color="#93c47d"><b>Department of Film, Television and Media<br clear="none"></b></font><font size="1" face="courier new, monospace" color="#93c47d"><b>6348 North Quad<br clear="none"></b></font><font size="1" face="courier new, monospace" color="#93c47d"><b>105 S. 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