teaching taiyozoku / subtitling consortium?

[Mark H Nornes]

I think we can safely say the subtitling consortium is on, now that you
ask!

Michael has been subtitling a number of films with some graduate students
at Yale. I am doing th same thing with undergraduates here at Michigan.
There are some other efforts, as you've heard on KineJapan in the past.

We were going to wait a bit more to bring this to the attention of Kinema
Clubbers, and the reason was basically that we are using two very
different methods to do the subbing. One is PC; theother is Mac-based. One
does not touch the original commercial media to end-run copyright issues;
the other is probably illegal in the strictest sense.

So we are planning to write up descriptions of what we're doing and then
start a discussion to pull interested parties in.

Michael, I guess we have to get this started now!  At the very least,
anyone at Yale that's interested in this should sit down to talk this
month.

Markus

On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, Jonathan M.  Hall wrote:

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> David A. underscores the need for expanding the kinds of directors we put on
> our syllabi  and for historicizing our approaches to the directors and films
> we do take up.  I think most people on the list are extremely sympathetic to
> this call.
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> But, what suntribe films exist subtitled without having to pay for their
> shipment from Japan?
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> For my postwar cinema class, I was fortunate enough to have Ichikawa's
> Punishment Room screening nearby.  I also used clips (without subtitles)
> from Crazed Fruit.
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> What became of Michael Raine's proposal for a subtitling consortium?  I had
> little time for it when it was proposed two years ago, but am very hopeful
> it is still operating.  Can someone in the know give us an update?
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> If the plan has not materialized, perhaps we could at least arrange to share
> the shipping expenses from Japan for a subtitled print.  If, say, three or
> four places all screen the same film within a 2 week period, this might
> work.  If you're interested, please don't hesitate to drop a line to the
> list or to me personally.  Taiyo no kisetsu or Kurutta kajitsu seem like
> obvious choices for many a syllabus ...
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> Jonathan Hall
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