<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_signature"><div style="font-size:12.8px">To the members of KineJapan,</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><div style="font-size:12.8px">I've already sent a version of this email to the site administrators, however perhaps the extended members of the Kinema CLub might be able to help extend the research effort!</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><div style="font-size:12.8px">My name is Hailey Lain, and I am currently a college student in the United States of America at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, pursuing a degree in Visual Arts with a concentration in Traditional Animation. Recently, I discovered a very old cartoon from <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px">1967 titled "Golden Bat (</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px;line-height:18.2px">黄金 バット)." It was translated and brought overseas to several countries, but as of today only certain versions of it still exist to common knowledge. The Italian version, localized as "Fantaman," has been posted to Youtube in its entirety. The English version, however, localized as "Phantaman" (where the titular character's name within the show was "Phantoma, Warrior of Justice") seems to have fallen into obscurity due to the fact that it was only ever broadcast in English in Australia starting in the year 1968 and was never released on VHS or DVD.</span></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px;line-height:18.2px"><br></span></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px;line-height:18.2px">Because of the show's age and the fact that no episodes have ever been shared online, it's believed that nobody thought to record the episodes as they were airing on television. There is, however, evidence that it did once exist in English, according to one very low-quality recording on Youtube, linked here:</span></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><font color="#000000"><span style="line-height:18.2px"><br></span></font></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><font color="#000000"><span style="line-height:18.2px"><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.youtube.com_watch-3Fv-3DuL-5FJd9sKOww&d=DQMFaQ&c=clK7kQUTWtAVEOVIgvi0NU5BOUHhpN0H8p7CSfnc_gI&r=e7qMG9KFq7WNnPQWULWHJA&m=z-kvxi-uRDFT8xcybfrIkeppERJKNYelHUMwql3ClME&s=iyJH5DuLJ0apMAi9RBJQ5kTXLMoO4IKXpxFHIsP4m0I&e=" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uL_Jd9sKOww</a></span><br></font></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><font color="#000000"><br></font></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><font color="#000000">...and a web page dedicated to what information is still known about the show as it existed in English, linked here:</font></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><font color="#000000"><br></font></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__home.alphalink.com.au_-7Eroglen_phantoma.htm&d=DQMFaQ&c=clK7kQUTWtAVEOVIgvi0NU5BOUHhpN0H8p7CSfnc_gI&r=e7qMG9KFq7WNnPQWULWHJA&m=z-kvxi-uRDFT8xcybfrIkeppERJKNYelHUMwql3ClME&s=YYrdwrKca2nW_opLhJ75uUPPuwNOvYlRCLiCmZUr6X4&e=" target="_blank">http://home.alphalink.com.au/~roglen/phantoma.htm</a></span></font></div><div><font color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><font color="#000000">I have been putting feelers out all over the place to see if there might yet be any trace of the English dub of the series as it was once broadcast in Australia. To date, I have contacted the US Library of Congress, the National Library of Australia, Nine Network (on which the cartoon once aired), Mr. Burr Middleton (who provided the English voices for many of the show's characters), Network Ten (on which the cartoon also aired in the sixties and seventies), and several other organizations dedicated to the preservation and research into film and television history.</font></div><div><font color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><font color="#000000">I was wondering if perhaps there might be any record of Phantaman or Phantoma (or, potentially, "Golden Bat" or "Ougon Batto") that the members of the Kinema Club might be able to help to find, and, if so, would there be any way for them to info me on it? Anything would help, be it the actual episodes, the audio recordings for the English airings, scripts, or even just a lead to further my research in a different direction.</font></div><div><font color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><font color="#000000">Thank you so incredibly much in advance, and I hope to hear from you soon. Cheers!</font></div><div><br></div>Sincerely,<div>Hailey Lain</div></div></div></div>
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