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GG: Karajan's Bata film contract?
Sorry for bothering you. A question for translation.
In the GG letter to Paul Myers dated (December 29, 1968),
GG mentions a possibility to make a film with Karajan.
GG wants to do that in Toronto when the Maestro
comes to North America. In the letter:
. . . he [Karajan] is flying up in February [1969] to have
a look at local facilities--but if he could be so persuaded,
and it was *his* idea, I, needless to say, as the least
confident Trans-Atrantic traveller in history, would be
delighted. His reasons for the switch are rather
complicated though they have principally to do, as I
understand it, with the termination of his Bata film contract
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and the development of a more flexible attitude in regard
to the facilities which might be more available to him in
North America during the fairly frequent off-weeks of
his Met. . . . (GGL, p.111)
Does anyone know or can anyone guess what "Bata" is like?
Is it a name of a film company?
If not, what is it?
As I checked the photocopy of the typescript,
it *is* spelled as "his Bata film contract".
Help me. Thank you in advance.
Regards,
Junichi
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