Found Films and benshi records

[David Hopkins]

Well, research hodo no research I haven't done, but I have kept my eyes open 
and no, I've never seen an ad. They are listed in company catalogs with no 
mention of any peripheral product, but I'm not sure that that proves 
anything. They are pretty common in flea market stacks of 78s, and I assume 
that the market for the digest home films would be much smaller, so maybe 
there isn't any connection. There ought to be, though.
David Hopkins
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From: 	Abe' Mark Nornes
Sent: 	Saturday, October 16, 1999 4:28 PM
To: 	KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
Subject: 	re:Found Films

David, it seems like it would be reasonably easy to research these benshi
78s. Certainly, there must be advertisements for them _somewhere._ At the
same time, I have to admit I've never run across them in journals of the 
era
(and that includes the magazines devoted to "baby cinema," or the amateur
film market that the Pathe' Baby was part of). Have you ever gone back to
the dusty stacks of magazines for the record industry?

Markus