Japan the Frozen Moment

Japan the Frozen Moment

See curatorial note.

2 reels. R1: 20 splices, 0.15% shrinkage; 2 tears and edge damage repaired, some scratches. R2: 11 splices, 0.20% shrinkage; some scratching, random footage of Ravi Shankar at end of reel (6/10/14)

Robin Hardy

1964

Courtesy International Motion Picture Company, Tokyo.

English

Esso World Theatre

http://rej.lib.rochester.edu/images/16mm/thumbnails/0441.jpg

See description.

[1965?]

16mm

00:31:27

[2000 ft.]

B/W

Sound

Bert Lawrence. Associate Producer, Jane Maas

Robin Hardy

Excerpts from "Bugaku, ", "Gagaku," "Noh, " and "Kabuki" scenes performed by the well-known dancers, musicians and actors and actresses.

U.S.A./Japan

441

See curatorial note.

Consultant: Donald Keene. Poetry and drama translation by Donald Keene, Kenneth Rexroth, Arthur Waley, and the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Scientific Research. Commentary by Sessue Hayakawa. Poetry performed by Yoshiko Nogawa, Mizuniwa Susumu. Includes acknowledgement: "We wish to thank Katsujiro Bando and Nosunosuke Saito of the Society for International Cultural Exchange and Kikuji Yonezawa of the Society for International Cultural Relations for making possible the appearance of the various theatre groups."