University Daily Kansan / Friday, October 4, 1991
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Video to tell history of Japanese bell
Local, Hiratsuka animators to relate bell's tale, from WWII to its return home
By Heather Anderson Kansan staff writer
Fairy tales do not need to take place in Never-Never Land. It is even possible for them to occur in Kansas.
Roger Holden, owner of Magic Visions,
Inc., 745 New Hampshire St., wants to turn a story that seems like a fairy tale into a reality.
Holden said he planned to produce an animated video that will tell the fairy-tale-like story of the Yokusaka Temple bell, a bronze bell taken from Japan and brought to the United States during World War II, probably so its bronze could be melted and sold.
The bell had been stored in the United States for more than 40 years and was on display in Topeka before it was returned to Japan about two years ago.
Holden decided to make a video about the bell because he had helped Mimi Thebo of Lawrence write letters and circulate petitions asking for the bell's return to Japan.
Theo said Holden liked the story because it had a happy ending.
She said she had organized the campaign for the bell's return to Japan because the was a symbol of the hostilities of war, which were far in the past.
Holden, who has had an animation studio in Lawrence for four years, is in the beginning stages of creating the children's animated video, which will relate the entire 50-year span of the bell's story.
Holden said he traveled to Japan three weeks ago for pleasure and to develop business contacts. He had a chance to visit with other people who are interested in animation from Hiratsuka, Lawrence's Japanese sister city.
Theo said she thought the video would demonstrate to children from both countries that a person could accomplish anything with determination and help from friends.
The story about the bell shows that mistakes can be corrected, she said, referring to the United States' possession of the bell for
Thebo said that most people had assumed that the bell in the Yokasuka Temple had been replaced.
She also said many Japanese had forgotten or did not know about the bell.
more than 40 years.
Holden told the Lawrence City Commission on Tuesday that the Japanese were thrilled when the bell was returned.
He said he was soliciting private sources and corporations to donate money toward making the video, which will cost at least $10,000 to produce.
"We will make the video one way or another," he said.
Holden said he wanted to make a high quality video that everyone can enjoy.
He said he hoped the video eventually could be circulated around both countries and that a television version might be produced.
American and Japanese artists and musicians will be hired to do the work on the project so people from both countries will be involved, he said.
Roger Holden, Lawrence, will work with animators in Japan to produce a children's video.
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