{"id":351492,"date":"2018-11-29T12:57:40","date_gmt":"2018-11-29T17:57:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/?p=351492"},"modified":"2018-12-06T13:13:02","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T18:13:02","slug":"digital-cinema-package-lost-japanese-film-351492","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/digital-cinema-package-lost-japanese-film-351492\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital scholars rescue lost Japanese film"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tokkan Kozo<\/em> is a 1929 Japanese silent film inspired by a classic O. Henry short story about a child kidnapping gone comically awry. The film was believed lost until partial 9.5mm versions surfaced in 1988 and again in 2015.<\/p>\n

Now, thanks to a collaboration involving Josh Romphf and Clara Auclair at the Digital Scholarship Lab<\/a> at River Campus Libraries; Joanne Bernardi, professor of Japanese<\/a> and film and media studies<\/a>;<\/em> the George Eastman Museum; and the Toy Film Museum in Kyoto, Japan, the surviving footage of Tokkan Kozo<\/em> can be seen as an English language digital cinema package, or DCP.<\/p>\n

The film will have its US premiere on Tuesday, Dec. 4 at the George Eastman Museum\u2019s Dryden Theatre<\/a>, along with another film (Passing Fancy<\/em>, 1936) by the same director, Yasujiro Ozu.<\/p>\n

Tokkan Kozo<\/em> was screened for the first time recently at the Pordenone Silent Film Festival<\/a> in Pordenone, Italy. Bernardi also gave a talk about the film and its collaborative restoration.<\/p>\n

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Tokkan Kozo<\/em><\/h3>\n

Tuesday, December 4, 7:30 pm
\nDryden Theatre
\nGeorge Eastman Museum<\/p>\n

The US premiere of this newly restored film, now available as a digital cinema package that can be screened in movie theaters thanks to the efforts of the Digital Scholarship Lab and others to bring this lost film back to life.\n<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cWe were able to make the DCP here at the URochester because Josh and Clara are both graduates of the Selznick Graduate Program in Film Preservation<\/a>,\u201d Bernardi says. The collaborative graduate program with George Eastman Museum is housed in the Department of English<\/a>.<\/p>\n