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This subseries contains scrapbooks of photocopied film-related holdings (tables of contents in journals) of particular Japanese libraries as well as photocopies of library catalogs in Japanese libraries. Boxes 585-587 contain photocopies of the catalog and holdings of the FC Amaya Bunko Collection/FC 雨夜文庫 (Tamotsu Amaya Movie Magazine Collection), donated to the Film Center in the 1990s as well as theBulletin of the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo/東京国立近代美術館研究紀要, no. 3, 4(1991 and 1994), which reprinted the catalog of the Aoyama Collection.

The film festivals in this subseries are arranged in alphabetical order by the name of the festival or type of materials. The materials for the 1st Pusan International Film Festival (Korea, 1996) include Japanese and Korean language newspapers (box 509).

These items were acquired at various film festivals.

This subseries contains photo albums and individual commercial photographic portraits (stills or bromides (buromaido/ブロマイド orpuromaido/プロマイド) organized in alphabetical order by the title of the film depicted or the name of the owner of the album or the main person depicted when the owner is unknown. Albums include those owned by actor Matsui Suisei/松井彗声 and actress Kurishima Sumiko/栗島すみ子 (which mainly contains portraits of Kurishima, but also has two group photos with Charlie Chaplin) and an album with original photographs from the wartime Japanese-German film collaboration,Atarashiki tsuchi/新しき土/New Earth(1937) directed by Arnold Fanck and Itami Mansaku, and taken by Japanese staff (about 500 photos).

This subseries contains still photographs of pre-war news films. Topics include theHindenburg(1937), Nanjing, Beijing, and Home front stills (women). For articles on the topic of news films, see Subseries VI.7: Subject Files: Documentary Film Materials.

Makino received the albums from the Miki family after Miki Shigeru passed. Many of the photos in the albums were taken by Miki for his book with the folklorist Yanagita Kunio/柳田國男,Yukiguni no minzoku/雪國の民俗(1944). Makino's copies of this book can be found by searching the Columbia University Libraries online catalog. For documents related to Miki Shigeru, see Subseries III.7: Film-related Individuals' Files: Miki Shigeru.

Photo albums, photographs, and negatives related to Uchida Tomu's film, Tsuchi both on location and a later research visit by Makino. Photographs include Makino's 1983 visit to cameraman Midorikawa Michio/碧川道夫, and to the home and grave of Tsuchi's author, Nagatsuka Takashi/長塚節 in Ibaraki prefecture, photographs of Makino's visit to meet with Tsuchi's actress Kazami Akiko/風見章子, black and white photographs taken on location for the film, and negatives.