A Question about Kinugasa's "A Crazy Page"

[Jasper Sharp]

Remember as well that any "original" print is based on the one that Kinugasa 
re-discovered in 1971 and prepared for its re-release. As this new version 
featured a soundtrack, this meant changing the projection speed from the 
original 20 f/s to 24 f/s. The addition of a soundtrack on the print also 
crops some of the picture. In addition to this, Mariann Lewinsky notes that 
this print also is about 500 meters shorter than the length listed for the 
original 1926 release, so who knows what footage went missing when Kinugasa 
prepared this new version. All I know is that viewing KI now is a very 
different experience than it would have been on its original 1926 release, 
with its benshi narration (yes there was!) and live orchestra .


>From: Bernardi-Buralli <dburall1 at rochester.rr.com>
>Reply-To: KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
>To: <KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu>
>Subject: Re: A Question about Kinugasa's "A Crazy Page"
>Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2002 12:06:01 -0500
>
>
>The GEH (Rochester NY) print I mentioned in my earlier message begins with
>the title, date, director, etc in romanization, followed immediately by the
>"NAF" title card and subsequent original credits, followed by the storm.  I
>believe this is the more unadulterated version of all of them out there,
>including the one with the rolling credits in English about the merits of 
>KI
>in the context of POTEMKIN, etc. An inquiry to GEH (ww.eastman.org) would
>clarify the provenance of this print.
>
>Joanne Bernardi
>
>
> > From: Mark Nornes <amnornes at umich.edu>
> > Reply-To: KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
> > Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 09:32:12 -0500
> > To: KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
> > Subject: Re: A Question about Kinugasa's "A Crazy Page"
> >
> > Speaking of this film, I have a question about print provenance. There
> > are at least two versions of the film out there, and you can easily tell
> > from the introduction. In one print, you get the credit sequence and
> > then the storm sequence. In another---including the tape from
> > Facets---the storm sequence opens the film and is repeated, bookending
> > the credits. Paul Anderer was just in Ann Arbor giving a talk on the
> > film, and he was basing an argument about conventionalized narrative
> > repetition on the latter version. Does anyone know which print is more
> > trustworthy?
> >
> > Markus
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Wednesday, February 6, 2002, at 09:11  PM, Aaron Gerow wrote:
> >
> >>> For what it's worth, when Richie introduced "Kurutta Ippeiji" at the
> >>> Harvard Film Archives recently, he stated that a proper translation
> >>> would be something "Pages out of order".  He took the blame for
> >>> originally mistranslating this as "Pages of Madness".
> >>
> >> Well, actually, the Japanese itself is ambiguous, which makes it such a
> >> good title.  Kurutta can mean both "madness" or a "out of order," and
> >> both clearly fit the film: it is set in a mental hospital and it
> >> features
> >> a complex re-ordering of narrative time.  Other meanings can also be
> >> drawn from the title.
> >>
> >> 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
> >
>



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