<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><DIV><FONT face="bookman old style, new york, times, serif">Dan,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Bookman Old Style">benshi are still working. just a thought but you might try Sawato Midori, japan's senior benshi, at</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Bookman Old Style"><A href="http://www.sawatomidori.com/eng/index.html">http://www.sawatomidori.com/eng/index.html</A></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Bookman Old Style">good luck.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Bookman Old Style">FB</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV> <BR><BR>--- On <B>Tue, 2012/4/3, Dan Cooper <I><dan@cabinetmagazine.org></I></B> wrote:<BR></DIV>
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<DIV id=yiv1485276537><SPAN>Hello KineJapan.</SPAN><BR><BR><SPAN>I'm writing from Cabinet magazine, a non-profit art and culture</SPAN><BR><SPAN>> quarterly based in New York (</SPAN><A href="http://www.cabinetmagazine.org/" rel=nofollow target=_blank>www.cabinetmagazine.org</A><SPAN>). Our upcoming issue</SPAN><BR><SPAN>> features an essay on the history of silent films, subtitling, and early</SPAN><BR><SPAN>> forms of narration, including benshi. We're trying to hunt down images</SPAN><BR><SPAN>> of benshi in the act of narrating films, and we're having a fairly</SPAN><BR><SPAN>> difficult time locating images of this nature.</SPAN><BR><SPAN>></SPAN><BR><SPAN> I have briefly perused the Makino collection and been in touch</SPAN><BR><SPAN>with Matsuda to little end. The Makino collection is still in the process</SPAN><BR><SPAN>of being cataloged and without any Japanese language skills, my
search is</SPAN><BR><SPAN>largely unorganized and even the immense help that Beth, the collection's</SPAN><BR><SPAN>archivist, has given, I'm still wandering around in the dark. If anyone</SPAN><BR><SPAN>knows where in Makino's collection I might focus my search your help would</SPAN><BR><SPAN>be greatly appreciated. Any other information you may have on the</SPAN><BR><SPAN>whereabouts of benshi images or resources would also be excellent.</SPAN><BR><BR><SPAN>Thank you for reading through my few requests and for letting me post to</SPAN><BR><SPAN>your listserv.</SPAN><BR><BR><SPAN>All the best,</SPAN><BR><SPAN>Dan</SPAN><BR clear=all>
<DIV><BR></DIV>-- <BR>Dan Cooper<BR>Cabinet magazine, Editorial Assistant<BR>Mailing address: 181 Wyckoff Street, Brooklyn, NY 11217, USA
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