{"id":99,"date":"2017-04-05T16:06:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-05T20:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2017\/04\/05\/before-there-was-sailor-moon-there-was-the-dull-sword\/"},"modified":"2017-04-05T16:06:00","modified_gmt":"2017-04-05T20:06:00","slug":"before-there-was-sailor-moon-there-was-the-dull-sword","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2017\/04\/05\/before-there-was-sailor-moon-there-was-the-dull-sword\/","title":{"rendered":"Before there was Sailor Moon&#8230;there was The Dull Sword"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tAs highlighted on <a href=\"https:\/\/hyperallergic.com\/369024\/a-trove-of-early-japanese-animated-films-is-now-online\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hyperallergic<\/a>, the National Film Center of Japan\u2019s National Museum of Modern Art has uploaded <a href=\"http:\/\/animation.filmarchives.jp\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a ton of early Japanese animation<\/a> to mark the centennial of Japan&#8217;s oldest known animated film.<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-CsRhbJyMk8M\/WOVMhofwhJI\/AAAAAAAAAWM\/ViCp_FwAW6UO8wFVSRNGy4N5mZ-RyUA_wCLcB\/s1600\/100183_hito.png\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-CsRhbJyMk8M\/WOVMhofwhJI\/AAAAAAAAAWM\/ViCp_FwAW6UO8wFVSRNGy4N5mZ-RyUA_wCLcB\/s1600\/100183_hito.png\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>You can see all the films&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/animation.filmarchives.jp\/works\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>, and the very oldest&#8211;a 1917 work discovered in an antique store in 2008!&#8211;is The Dull Sword (pictured above), available&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/animation.filmarchives.jp\/en\/works\/playen\/100183\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As highlighted on Hyperallergic, the National Film Center of Japan\u2019s National Museum of Modern Art has uploaded a ton of early Japanese animation to mark the centennial of Japan&#8217;s oldest known animated film. You can see all the films&nbsp;here, and the very oldest&#8211;a 1917 work discovered in an antique store in 2008!&#8211;is The Dull Sword [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}