Iwanami goes digital

[Aaron Gerow]

It was reported that Hitachi has decided to purchase the 4151 films left 
over when Iwanami Productions, one of Japan's most important documentary 
and educational film producers, went bankrupt last year.  Its subsidiary 
Hitachi Media Productions will transfer those films on 16mm into digital 
(and DVD) and, through a new "Iwanami Film Library," make them available 
to schools and other institutions through satellite broadcasts and other 
multi-media networks.  The service is supposed to start this April.

Aaron Gerow
Associate Professor
International Student Center
Yokohama National University
79-1 Tokiwadai
Hodogaya-ku, Yokohama 240-8501
JAPAN
E-mail: gerow at ynu.ac.jp
Phone: 81-45-339-3170
Fax: 81-45-339-3171