<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Just an example from one other country (or perhaps two) : the National Film Board of Canada and the Cinémathèque Québécoise both have on-line catalogues, which seem to be extensive, well-organized, and accessible; though the Cinémathèque makes it clear that in many cases they only make films available for purposes of research.<div><br></div><div>Lawrence Bird,</div><div>PhD student, McGill University<br><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On 5-Sep-08, at 5:22 AM, Roger Macy wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div bgcolor="#ffffff"><div><font face="Arial">Thank you for the continuing thread '<font size="3">Japanese governmental agencies/film culture promotional policies', but can I confine myself to clarifying the position on film archive catalogues</font>?</font></div><div><font face="Arial"></font> </div><div><font face="Arial">On Sep 4, 2008, at 1:56 AM, Mark Nornes wrote:<br>> They won't show you a list—neither will any archive out there—but <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> they're happy to tell you know if they've got prints of the films <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> you are interested in.<br><br>Mark Roberts said:-</font></div><div><font face="Arial">The situation in Japan strikes me as the exception, not the norm. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>Every archive and film library that I've visited in America and Europe <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>has a catalog, most are on-line, and they didn't vet each inquiry that <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>I made. Have I just been lucky?<br></font></div><div><font face="Arial"></font> </div><div><font face="Arial">Eija Niskanen said :-</font></div><div>Places like national film archives (say the Finnish National<br>Audio-visual Archive) operate on public tax payers' money, so they<br>have to have a certain openness, including their catalogues.</div><div> </div><div><font face="Arial">My experience has been that very few film catalogues are available online - but I would be delighted to receive corrections or more counter-examples. For example the Cinémathèque française, when you look up 'collections', you see a picture of their redoubt, but no catalogue. The same in the less picturesque UK. But a good example to consider, because they hold both objets d'art and films is MoMA, (NY). Just as for all the major art galleries I know (except the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo), they have a full on-line catalog of their art collection,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><u>completely illustrated</u>, but show no catalog of their films.</font></div><div><font face="Arial">If this were mainly to do with rights, you might expect the reverse to be the case - most of the art collection of MoMA and other modern art museums have unexpired rights and their commercial divisions are frequently in the business of maximising their revenue from those rights. Whereas no one is yet advocating illustrated, let alone playable, film catalogues of these archives.</font></div><div><font face="Arial">Roger</font></div></div></span></blockquote></div><br></div></div></body></html>