Japan Society - Classic Anime/Silent Film Screenings

[Sarah Hack]

On February 13th-16th, the Japan Society of NY is hosting a first time
screening series of anime and silent film from the Japanese "golden era" of
cinema restored by Digital Meme, a young Japanese film company.

This is a link to the event:
http://www.japansociety.org/event_detail?eid=5186172e.

Screenings will be accompanied by live performace from one of Japan's
greatest living *benshi *film narrators, Midori Sawato.

Digital Meme and the Japan Society are offering a certain number of
complimentary tickets to members of the press and academic community. Please
be in touch with me directly hack at digital-meme.com if you would like to
attend.

Thank you for your interest!



On Jan 16, 2008 12:37 PM, Roger Macy <macyroger at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> As far as the UK is concerned, I think WorldCat gathers its information
> through Copac, or at least, through the same sources.  Copac doesn't list
> all Japanese language books in the UK because some libraries, such as the
> British Library, keep Japanese language books on a separate catalogue.
> These are best searched through the Japan Union Catalogue,
> http://juc.lib.cam.ac.uk/spcat/spcat.cgi?country=eng&sercln=1
> Outside the UK, you may get a broader result from http://www.niicat.eu/
> The Japan Union catalogue is searchable in romaji, but there is no
> consistency amongst its members (nor, I think, within the BL) as to the
> romanisation of long vowels.  I was taught by the curator there to omit
> words with long vowels from the search string or, if necessary, search both
> ways for every possible long vowel.
>
> Virtually all academic libraries in the UK are members of COPAC.  Two
> exceptions worth noting are the BFI library and the Imperial War Museum
> library.  It isn't clear when accessing the BFI site that their journal
> holdings are not searchable on-line, but there is a pdf list on their site
> of their holdings. And the catalogues of their collections of films, stills,
> Film Festival catalogues are not integrated, either, although they have two
> versions of their own cross-referencing database which you can search at
> their library.  The IWM library doesn't have anything that would interest an
> American, as the 'Allied' in SCAP was entirely tatemae.  In fact, I've been
> copying the relevant 'Theater and Motion Pictures' history of SCAP, whilst
> in the US this week, as I couldn't find a copy in 'WorldCat' in Europe.
>
> There must be list-members who know a lot more than me about this (or who
> can correct me). I'd be interested to read an account of the inclusion of
> libraries in the rest of Europe.  There are clearly member libraries in a
> number of countries.  But the catalogue of the National Library of Russia
> does not appear to be digitised.
> Roger
>
>
>
>
> *Mark Nornes <amnornes at umich.edu>* wrote:
>
> I have a good sense for what's in the North American libraries, but
> I'm wondering about the rest of the world. Are there substantial
> collections of Japanese film books and journals in other parts of the
> world? I'm not thinking about Japan itself, but rather Europe, Central
> and South America, Asia, Africa. I have passively scanned the lists of
> libraries in Worldcat when looking up a book, and I rarely see
> libraries listed outside of Japan and N. America, but have no idea if
> Worldcat is truly worldly.
>
> Can anyone enlighten me?
>
> How about collections of film prints?
>
> Markus
>
>
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