Searching the Traces: Archival Study of Short-lived Film Formats
Saturday, April 7 9:00-17:05 and Sunday, April 8, 9:00-17:35 at Cinema 1, NFC
OPENING
Saturday, April 7, 9:00-9:30
9:00-9:10
Greeting by Tetsuo Tsujimura (Director, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo)
9:10-9:15
Opening Address by Eva Orbanz (President of FIAF)
9:15-9:30
Introduction by Hisashi Okajima (Chief Curator of National Film Center, Tokyo)
KEYNOTE LECTURE
Saturday, April 7, 9:30 -10:30
Jean-Pierre Verscheure (Cinévolution, Mons)
THE CONSERVATION OF THE HERITAGE OF THE FILM SPECTACLE
10:35 – 10:45 Break
Session 1: FILM IN VARIETY
Saturday, April 7, 10:45-12:30/14:00-17:35
Chaired by Patrick Loughney (George Eastman House, Rochester).
10:45 – 11;15
Egbert Koppe (Bundesarchiv-Filmarchiv, Berlin)
FROM FLIP-BOOK TO CINEMA: BROAD GAUGES BETWEEN 1895 AND 1897 AND THEIR PRESERVATION
11:15 – 11:45
Camille Blot-Wellens (Cinémathèque Française, Paris)
WORKING WITH SINGULAR GAUGES : THE JOLY-NORMANDIN COLLECTION OF THE FILMOTECA ESPANÕLA AND CINEMATECA PORTUGUESA AND THE SINGLE PERFORATION PATHÉ NEGATIVES FROM THE CINÉMATHÈQUE FRANCAISE
11:45 – 11:55
Eric Le Roy (Archives Fran çaises du Film/CNC, Bois d’Arcy)
SHORT-LIVED FILM FORMATS IN THE FRENCH FILM ARCHIVES/CNC
11:55 – 12:20
Hung Yuen (Hong Kong Film Archive, Hong Kong)
HAND COLOUR SOUND FILMS IN HONG KONG
12:20 – 12:30
Paolo Caneppele (Österreichisches Filmmuseum, Wien)
SLIDE SHOW PROJECTIONS IN CINEMA AND THEIR INTERACTION WITH FILM TECHNOLOGY
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 – 14:40
Paul Read (FIAF Technical Commission)
IT DEPENDS WHAT YOU MEAN BY SHORT LIVED: COLOUR FILM FROM A (SHORT) TECHNOLOGIST’S LONG VIEW POINT
14:40 – 15:05
Takayuki Oguchi (Scholar of Large Screen Film Formats)
LARGE SCREEN FILM FORMATS IN JAPAN
15:05 – 15:30
Yoshiyuki Yahiro (The Fukuoka City Public Library Film Archive, Fukuoka)
PRESERVATION OF NARROW GAUGE FILMS IN JAPAN: A CASE STUDY OF 8MM FILMS
15:30 – 15:45 Break
15:45 – 16:10
Francisco Gaytán Fernández (Fimoteca de la UNAM, México)
OPTICAL PRINTING MACHINE OF 9.5MM PATHÉ FILM TO 35MM FILM
16:10 – 16:40
Patrick Loughney (George Eastman House, Rochester)
A COLLECTION OF 28MM, 22MM AND GLASS-BASED DISK MOVIE FORMATS AT GEH
16:40 – 17:05
Discussion
Chaired by Patrick Loughney
Session 2: MADE IN JAPAN
Sunday, April 8, 9:00-14:10
Chaired by Yoshiro Irie (National Film Center, Tokyo).
9:00 – 9:25
Fumiaki Itakura (National Film Center, Tokyo) and Natsuki Matsumoto (Film Collector /Historian)
PAPER FILM: HISTORY AND PRESERVATION
9:25 – 9:50
Natsuki Matsumoto (Film Collector/Historian) and Taiji Kozaki (Benshi Performer)
THE OLDEST ANIMATION IN JAPAN: DEMONSTRATING THE CULTURE OF HOME MAGIC LANTERN AND TOY FILM
9:50 – 10:15
Yoneo Ota (Osaka University of Arts, Osaka)
THE HISTORY OF TOY FILM IN JAPAN AND THE CHALLENGES OF ITS PRESERVATION
10:15 – 10:30 Break
10:30 – 10:55
Machiko Kusahara (Waseda University, Tokyo)
BABY TALKIE AND ITS ERA
10:55 – 11:10
Hidenori Okada (National Film Center, Tokyo)
RECYCLED MOTION PICTURE FILMS IN JAPAN
11:10 -11:35
Ayako Shiba (Scholar of Utsushi-e)
UTSUSHI-E (JAPANESE PHANTASMAGORIA): PRESERVING AND HANDING DOWN THE NATIONAL HERITAGE
11:35 – 12:00 Discussion
Chaired by Yoshiro Irie.
12:00 – 13:30 Lunch Break
13:30 - 14:10
Special Presentation of Utsushi-e
Presented by Minwa-za (Fumio Yamagata and Yuko Tanaka).
Session 3: ARTIFACTS OR FACTS OF ART
Sunday, April 8, 14:10-17:30
Chaired by Errki Huhtamo (University of California Los Angeles)
14:10 – 14:30
Laurent Mannoni (Cinémathèque Française, Paris)
PRE-CINEMA ARTIFACTS: HOW WE SHOULD PRESERVE THEM
14:30 – 14:50
Donata Pesenti Campagnoni (Museo Nazionale del Cinema/Fondazione Maria Adriana Prolo, Torino)
THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF FORMATS
14:50 – 15:20
Rosario López de Prado (Filmoteca Espanõla, Madrid)
CATALOGUING NON-FILM COLLECTIONS, PROCESSES AND PROBLEMS, AND THEIR RELATION TO FILM COLLECTIONS
15:20 – 15:35 Break
15:35 – 16:05
Nikolaus Wostry (Filmarchiv Austria, Wien)
A STUDY OF EARLY NITRATE MATERIAL AND HISTORICAL PROJECTION
16:05 – 16:25
Egbert Koppe (Bundesarchiv-Filmarchiv, Berlin)
TREASURE CHEST OF SOUND FILM
16:35 – 16:50
Erkki Huhtamo (University of California Los Angeles)
THE URBAN SPIROGRAPH, OR AN ARCHAEOLOGY OF A LOSER
16:50 – 17:15 Discussion
Chaired by Erkki Huhtamo.
17:15 – 17:30 Conclusion
A panel by Jean-Pierre Verscheure, Patrick Loughney, Yoshiro Irie and Erkki Huhtamo, moderated by Hisashi Okajima
CLOSING
17:30 – 17:35 Closing Address by Etsuko Takano (Honorary Director, National Film Center, Tokyo)