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Publicity pack for Japan Film Week, New York, 20-25 January 1957. An ephemeral survival from the first Japan Film Week in New York, an attempt by the post-war Japanese film industry to "demonstrate the film industry's highest artistic aims, its claims for a modern consciousness, and a technical ability that matched what was seen in other well-received international film movements" (Telotte, p. 131). We have traced only one other copy (NYU).Accompanying the publicity pack is an invitation sent to one Dorothy Lovell at 10 W 84 St. in New York. She has annotated the invitation's list of films in pencil and kept in the same envelope red card ticket stubs for the Wednesday 23 January (Women in Prison and A Girl in the Mist) and Friday 25 January (Harp of Burma and Children Who Draw) showings.The film week was organized by the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs and a co-operating committee, members including John D. Rockefeller III, president of the Japan Society, Tani Masayuki, the Japanese ambassador, and Marlon Brando, who clearly thought that Japanese film could be a contender. Each day was devoted to a different Japanese studio, each screening a feature film and a supporting picture, often a documentary or educational film. Screenings were all held in the auditorium of the Museum of Modern Art.

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