RE: Karajan's Bata film contract?

["Junichi Miyazawa" <walkingtune@bigfoot.com>]

Thank you for all of you who responded to my
"Bata" question.  
Forgive me to make a single reply only with 
this mail via f_minor.

I am now asking some people off the list including
the netizen who mentions "Bata film"(Thanks K.Berry).

So far, what I understand is that it might have something
to do with the Bata family in Toronto and their shoe industry.
The Bata museum sounds interesting, for someone told me 
off-the-list that GG wore Bata's shoes!

Anyway, I will tell you later if I get something new.

BTW,  does anyone know Karajan specialists?  Such people
might know what "Bata" is like.

Regards,

Junichi




-----Original Message-----
差出人 : K. Berry <kb@cs.umb.edu>
宛先 : walkingtune@bigfoot.com <walkingtune@bigfoot.com>
CC : f_minor@email.rutgers.edu <f_minor@email.rutgers.edu>
日時 : 1998年3月22日 0:52
件名 : RE: Karajan's Bata film contract?


>    If it was, what about reading it as
>    "Karajan's *barter* film contract".
>    Does it make sense?
>
>Not to me :-).  I doubt von K. would be making a film contract involving
>bartering instead of money.
>
>    Does anyone know or can anyone guess what "Bata" is like?
>    Is it a name of a film company? 
>
>I think so, but I don't know why I think so.
>
>Searching for +bata +film at yahoo leads me to
>  http://w.cba.neu.edu/~hvernonwortzel/syl1338.htm
>which is the syllabus for a business course, including the showing of a
>``Bata film''.  (Search for Bata.)  I guess you could write to
>hvernon@neu.edu, who authored that page, for more info.
>
>I also see that Timothy Findley, maker of The Wars, came to the Bata
>Library at Trent University (in Canada) last fall.  That seems quite a
>coincidence.  I wonder if the Trent people would be able to answer
>definitively.
>
>Finally, whenever music and film comes up, I think of Bruno
>Monsaingeon.  If you are in contact with him, you might try.
>
>Hope this helps.
>
>