NEW! Online Reprint Series for Japanese Cinema

[Gavin Rees]

I just wanted to drop a line to thank Markus and the CJS in Michigan for
putting all these materials on line. I think it is great that you have
taken  the trouble to do this and hopefully the project will snowball,
and add more enticing things to itself. 

One thing I would like to see, although I suspect that it raises thorny
copyright problems, is copies of scripts online. That is not just
because they are hard to get hold of. If one's Japanese is as ropey as
mine, it is very usful to have a script in electronic form. Unknown
characters can easily be loaded into an electronic dictionary (eg
oridict) without the pain of having to count stroke order. 

I have been working a lot with Hiroshima material recently, and it is
lovely to have the US-Japan paper trail so helpfully laid out as it is
on the site. 

Best, 

Gavin 


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
[mailto:owner-KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu] On Behalf Of Mark
Nornes
Sent: 13 December 2004 00:22
To: KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
Subject: Re: NEW! Online Reprint Series for Japanese Cinema


This occurred to me, although what you're suggesting is links from the 
disk to the website. What worried me was the competition that 
distributing it for free could create---even in a wildly compressed 
form.

So they can always link to my site. However, when you read the 
materials the possible links are not completely obvious.

By the way, I've never done this myself, but judging from the manual 
for DVD StudioPro it looks like they've largely automated this. At 
least for links automatically triggered by markers. I've heard that you 
can link out from DVD intertitles, something that really intrigues me 
for completely unrelated reasons. But I've never had time to check it 
out, not have I seen anyone try.

Markus

PS: For KineJapan members you aren't in the know, David immediately 
thinks along these lines because its part of his genetic makeup. He is 
the director/autho(=auteur!) of the spectacular Waxweb. This was the 
first feature film on the web, and remains one of the most clever and 
complex uses of hypertext around. It was an important part of the early 
discourses around the internet in Japanese media and scholarship, and 
even has a Japanese language version. If you've never seen it, you 
must: http://www.iath.virginia.edu/wax/









On Dec 13, 2004, at 7:59 AM, David Blair wrote:

> Since you did think of it, I won't feel too guilty talking more about
> it.
>
> My sense is that a dvd presentation and a website presentation don't
> have to conflict at all, in fact they would complement each other.
>
> It is difficult to well present the sort of documentary materials you
> have added to the site on a dvd. On a website [or in plain multimedia]

> it is easy to link from the text to appropriate section of the movie, 
> and to have a way to have changing links out of a progressing video 
> section. This latter is a tough thing to do in dvd authoring [if not, 
> I want to know!].... and the only title I've seen to do it is the 
> excellent Melies dvd from Arte Video [but I am sure the list knows 
> others], and then only in a limited fashion.
>
> Ok. this is all a lot of work isn't it though, so I won't go on.
>
> best,
> David
>
> At 07:20 AM 12/13/2004 +0900, you wrote:
>> I was going to do this. Actually the film is perfectly suited for
>> this, as it's organized into reel-length chunks--a nice structure for

>> today's bandwidth because you could make coherent 10 minute 
>> quicktimes with a single theme.
>>
>> However, there are movements afoot to do a high-quality DVD of the
>> film, and I didn't want to interfere with that. If the DVD doesn't 
>> pan out, I can always add it later, right? That's the beauty of the 
>> thing....
>>
>> Markus
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Dec 13, 2004, at 2:09 AM, David Blair wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Mark,
>>>
>>> since this was a list topic not long ago,  I am sure you have
>>> thought about.... but I thought I would mention:
>>>
>>> since you've generously put up production materials relating to the
>>> Hiroshima/Nagasaki film,
>>> perhaps at a future date it might be useful to place the film itself

>>> on the site....
>>> ie the full 3 hour [?] version, which is in the public domain.
>>>
>>> best,
>>> David Blair
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>
>
>
>


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