Series XV: Museums, Exhibitions and Film Catalogs, 1902-2005 [Bulk Dates: 1980s-1990s], 1902-2005
- Scope and content:
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This series contains catalogs from museums and libraries. Due to Makino's work for the Kawasaki City Museum, there are many materials from this particular Museum in his collection. Subseries XV.1 of this series contains items related to exhibitions, film showings, and retrospectives specifically at the Kawasaki City Museum. These include handbills, exhibit catalogs, and programs of film related events (film screenings, exhibitions) held at the Museum.
For materials related to animation and the Kawasaki City Museum, see Subseries VI.2: Subject Files: Animated Films and Comics (Manga). For materials related to Okinawa and the Kawasaki City Museum exhibition in 1999 see Series VIII: Okinawan Cinema. Subseries XV.2 contains film and art related exhibitions at museums or other centers.
It also includes symposia related publications from museums or other centers. Subseries XV.3 has film lists, library catalogs with film holdings, film related program and book catalogs or periodicals from antiquarian bookstores, and advertisements. For camera catalogs see also, Subseries VI.1: Subject Files: Amateur Films, Small-Gauge Films (Kogata eiga). Subseries VI.4 contains post-war film retrospectives other than those from the Kawasaki City Museum (which can be found in Subseries XV.1). Subseries XV.5 contains museum newsletters from the National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo or Tokyo Kokuritsu Kindai Bijutsukan /東京国立近代美術館 and its National Film Center/フイルムセンター (NFC or FC).
This series also contains 1 box of materials related to Expo '70, the World's Fair held in Osaka in 1970 (Osaka banpaku). This includes the World Exposition program and assorted publications listed in Subseries XV.2: Exhibitions Excel file (box 321).
Subseries XV.6 contains scrapbooks of photocopied table of contents, articles, or holdings of film magazines in certain libraries in Japan, including the National Diet Library of Japan (NDL), the National Film Center (NFC), and others.
- Other finding aids:
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A detailed listing of the items in Series XV can be consulted in a downloadable Excel spreadsheet.
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