Searching for archival materials

I will be visiting our offsite storage facility ReCAP again this Friday to examine the contents of about 80 boxes. Last Friday, I visited and looked at 47 boxes.  Although almost all the boxes contained monographs, I found Man’ei/満英 related materials, Chinese film magazines, and photographs (mostly of Ri Koran, the film actress also known […]

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Online Presentations in Academic Commons and presentation at CEAL 3/20/2013

In addition to YouTube Channel access, digital presentations of the Makino Symposium of 11/11/11 have recently been made available online on Columbia’s Open Access repository, Academic Commons. You can search by presenter name or browse by keywords “Makino Symposium.” Last week, with our Library Director Jim Cheng, I gave an overview of the Makino Collection […]

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My Visit with Mr. Makino

This June, I visited with Mr. and Mrs. Makino and scholar Mr. Satoh Yoh at the Makino home in Tokyo. While they showed me some albums containing photographs of individual books taken before the Makino Collection was packed up and sent to our off-site facility in New Jersey, we discussed some of Mr. Makino’s interests […]

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The Conant Collection Symposium

For those interested in the Makino Collection, you may want to attend the upcoming daylong symposium on The Conant Collection that will be held here at Columbia University, "The Korean War and its Aftermath: Cinematic Memories from the Theodore Conant Collection" March 30, 2012 (Friday) 9:00 AM – 4:30 PM For more information, check the […]

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Makino Mamoru’s recent publication

Mr. Makino and Mr. Sato Yo recently published a collection of Mr. Makino’s writings in the new book, Eigagaku no michishirube = An approach to film studies in Japan / 映画学の道しるべ = An approach to film studies in Japan. C.V. Starr East Asian Library was given a copy of this book and it is now […]

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