[KineJapan] An inquiry about emergency lights in movie theaters

[Earl Jackson]

Dear Bruce Baird,
"Exit strategy" - I love this story - thank you!
ej
Earl Jackson
Chair Professor
Foreign Languages and Literatures
Asia University
Professor Emeritus
National Chiao Tung University
Associate Professor Emeritus
University of California, Santa Cruz


On Tue, Oct 18, 2022 at 12:04 AM Bruce Baird via KineJapan <
kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote:

> Dear Mathieu,
>
> This is not an answer to your question, but just an interesting anecdote.
> I hope the list members won’t mind me cluttering their inbox:
>
> Butô dancers routinely danced in cabaret shows in order to make money to
> finance their lives and their more avant-garde performances. Yoshioka
> Yumiko tells of a story in which on her first day in the cabaret (about
> 1976), she froze and couldn’t recall her choreography. She focused on an
> exit sign while her more experienced partner (Amagatsu Ushio of Sankai
> Juku) danced around her. Finally, she remembered her choreography and
> started dancing again. Since that time, she turned that experience into a
> sort of philosophy of performance in which she advises dancers to have an
> exit strategy in case something should go wrong.
>
> Good luck with your search,
>
> Bruce
>
> Bruce Baird
> Professor
> Japanese Program
> University of Massachusetts Amherst
> Butô, Japanese Theater, Intellectual History
>
> 439 Herter Hall
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> University of Massachusetts Amherst
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> Phone: 413-577-2117
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> baird at umass.edu
>
> Recently Released: *A History of Butô *(Oxford UP)
> https://global.oup.com/academic/product/a-history-of-but-9780197630280
>
> On Oct 17, 2022, at 3:38 AM, Mathieu Capel via KineJapan <
> kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote:
>
> Dear Kinejapaners,
>
> In a 1980 piece of writing ("Seido toshite no eiga"), Hasumi Shigehiko
> talks about how it became impossible in Japan to watch a film in total
> darkness after the 1964 Olympic Games.
> I was able to find an article by Tadahisa Jin ("History of the Emergency
> Exit Lighting Sign") who seems to confirm it ("I first got aware of
> emergency lights in movie theaters in the second half of the sixties", does
> he begin), but his history does not provide any kind of details regarding
> the year emergency lights began to be used, or mandatory, and so on.
> Unfortunately, Kato Mikiro talks a lot about air conditioning in his *Eigakan
> to kankyaku no bunkashi, *but I couldn't find anything about lights when
> he describes the emergence of modern movie theaters.
> Would someone on the list have some more details about the so-called "end
> of total darkness" Hasumi refers to ?
> Many thanks,
>
> Mathieu Capel
> University of Tokyo
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