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These are production planning documents and photographs. This subseries contains 5 folders of materials. Folder 1 contains Tokyo Match Group Co., Ltd. handwritten documents for location scouting and budget plans for the documentary film,Yunnan Road/ユンナンロード(1980). Folder 2 contains documents and photographs for the making of the films,Nenokuni/根の国andTaihei/太平(1981). Folder 3 contains a scrapbook of newspaper clippings for the film,Asobiba no nai kodomotachi/遊び場のない子供たち(1965 May -- June), film by Kikuchi Shū/菊地周. Folder 4 contains a data book,Amami Ōshima no gaikyō/奄美大島の概況(1956). Folder 5 is a National Film Center report on film production in Indonesia during the Japanese Occupation (2002).

Many of the textbooks in this series were collected by and written by film historian Komatsu Hiroshi/小松浩. The subseries contains documents for textbooks, manuals for film equipment, handwritten manuscripts and lecture transcripts by Komatsu Hiroshi, as well as photographs related to camera technique and textbooks. This subseries also includes pre-war magazines related to technique, education, and lighting, with those items organized in alphabetical order by title and listed at the end of this section.

This subseries contains local entertainment guides that are calledtaunshi/タウン誌 or city magazines.

This subseries contains popular Japanese music songbooks that cover the following areas: national anthems, theme songs, collections of popular songs, school songs and dormitory songs, a Girl Scout songbook, jazz music, shamisen music songs, songs from an annual singing contest held on New Year's Eve, folk songs, military songs, parodies, ballads, bawdy songs, youthful songs, and enka (traditional-style Japanese popular ballads).

Although this subseries covers Occupation period materials and the Allied Occupation of Japan lasted from 1945-1952 there are also items from the latter part of the 1950s and early 1960s in this subseries. This subseries contains entertainment newspapers and labor union newsletters during the period of the Allied Occupation of Japan, also referred to as GHQ period (General Headquarters) in Makino's Collection.

This subseries includes works on philosophy and film, history of film, montage, as well as scholarship on film theory and reprints on "literature film." It containsNihon eigashi sokō/日本映画史素稿,Fuirumu Raiburarii Kyōgikai/フイルムライブラリー協議会, no. 1-9, 11,andbessatsu 1-4(1968-), and a scrapbook of film theory, articles fromShisō/思想(1929). For more monographs, search the Columbia University Libraries online catalog.

This subseries contains materials related to the proletarian arts movement in Japan. It contains documents, fliers, scrapbooks, and magazines related to the left-wing film organization, Proletarian Film League of Japan/Nihon Puroretaria Eiga Dōmei/日本プロレタリア映画同盟 (or Prokino for short, 1929-1934). The first part of the subseries contains documents, fliers, programs, and manuscripts related to left-wing or proletarian film movements. Makino's commentary and manuscripts for reprint editions of the various left-wing magazines are also contained here as well as theater related pamphlets, fliers, and a scenario related to the left-wing theater group Zenshinza/前進座.

This subseries contains photocopies of books and articles written by the psychologist Matsumoto Matatarō/松本亦太郎 (1865-1943) who introduced experimental psychology methods from America and Germany to Japanese universities. See Subseries VI.8: Subject Files: Education for journals likeKyōiku/教育that contain articles written by Matsumoto.

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This subseries includes materials related to non-film cultural performances. These includekabukitheater, puppet theater,shinpa/新派, musical performances and others. There are programs, handbills, newsletters, guides to the theater, and magazines with special issue themes ofkabuki.For pre-war theater handbills for vaudeville shows that are organized by theater, see Series XIII: Handbills/Chirashifor Vaudeville Shows and Revues, 1915-1947.