[KineJapan] Japan Film Resources Online (JFRO)

[Jasper Sharp]

Still, it's pretty invaluable as a starting place to know where to look for stuff.
Thanks so much for sharing Aaron!


The Creeping Garden<http://www.creepinggarden.com/> - A Real-Life Science-Fiction Story about Slime Moulds and the People Who Work With them, directed by Tim Grabham and Jasper Sharp.
Available now on Dual-Format Blu-ray/DVD from Arrow Films<https://arrowfilms.com/product-detail/the-creeping-garden-dual-format/FCD1435>.
The book, The Creeping Garden: Irrational Encounters with Plasmodial Slime Moulds is out now from Alchimia Publishing<http://www.alchimiapublishing.com/creeping-garden/>.
"A surprising investigation of perception, thought and life itself", Nicolas Rapold, The New York Times<http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/30/movies/review-the-creeping-garden-on-the-wonders-of-the-slime-mold.html>.
"An out-of-left-field nerdy delight", John DeFore, Hollywood Reporter<https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/creeping-garden-fantasia-review-724416>.
"Strange, eccentric, diverting", Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian<https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/mar/09/creeping-garden-review-slime-mould-film>.

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This is an awesome idea, but they have rolled it out before it's ready. I did a bunch of searching right now, and Kawakita's got their s**t together (no surprise there). But lots of items I know are in other institutions don't show up in a search. It's perplexing, actually. Unfortunately, we'll still need to search each catalog separately for the foreseeable future.

Markus


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On Thu, Jul 6, 2023 at 9:09 PM Gerow Aaron via KineJapan <kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu<mailto:kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu>> wrote:
VIPO (the Visual Industry Promotion Organization) has been developing a search engine that enables you to search the holdings of five film archives in Japan. The engine is called Japan Film Resources Online (JFRO) and opened for general use on July 4. It enables searches of paper-based materials in the collections of Toei Uzumasa, Shochiku Otani, Kawakita, Matsunaga Bunko, and the Waseda Enpaku. These would include scripts, chirashi, press materials, books, magazines, posters, stills, programs, and other materials. The VIPO announcement is here:
https://www.vipo.or.jp/news/36134/

Aaron Gerow
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