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Old 04-25-2005, 12:51 AM   #14
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Re: Tohei throwing Judoka in Hawaii?

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Ted Ehara wrote:
From what I can figure out, there should be two films, one for each event. Assuming they both survived the years.
I wonder how many 16mm films of that type have survived from the 1950's? That film stock does decay. Is it rotting in some storage facility in the forgotten archives of someone's estate. Is it in a vault of some news agency ? How hard has anyone tried to track it down, I wonder.

The late Iwao Tamura Sensei talked about seeing newsreel in Japan of Tohei Sensei around 1954. He was being attacked by a large group of men and throwing them around with seeming effortlessness. It impressed him so much he sought out an aikido school. Turned out to be a Yoshinkan school, but he didn't understand the difference at the time.

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