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Animations for the Government

I made this thing, which I thought was quite brilliant. You know? Conceptually it was... the -- singers were quite popular.  And it was a group of people, a uh, chorus group which sang Classical, uh, music, you know? Mozart or Beethoven or something like that.  All in their voice.  Their vocal tunes: sopranos, the altos, and the bass, you know.  And the...so I decided to use the soprano as the, um, well I forgot.  But the, uh, the legislature and the Supreme Court, well I forgot.  And the uh, the alto and the bass was the government.  You know with the muuh voice [deep voice].  And they sang.  And the only way this government would work if they sang in harmony.  And if one of them...and whenever one did one thing they could do a solo.  And then they could do independently. But eventually it joins in by the second, by the alto, and then the bass would then carry it.  So it became a democratic system.  That's how it was.  'Cause music I, I always believed is all structured around that kind of a sound.  A team.  Timing, you know.  So that was... that got incredibly good reviews and there was... I think it won awards all over.

And I was working on the third one, about birth control, you know. And, see what these guys would do was carry these... this, this films. In those days there was no, no tape or video so they carried a projector and these films on a mule and go into jungles in, uh, in South America. And the, then they had the uh battery driven things to, uh, run the film.  And then they sit these natives down in these huts or outside and run these, these films. They explained what the government, how the government is made up.  And there'd be guy who was narrating, who had this translating thing to show them how it works. Saying, geez so that's how it works.  They, they picked it up and it was, it was working.


películas gobiernos música América del Sur

Fecha: June 29, 2012

Zona: California, US

Entrevista: Chris Komai, John Esaki

País: Watase Media Arts Center, Japanese American National Museum

Entrevista

Desde niño, Jimmy Murakami (1933 – 2014) decidió convertirse en un animador de películas al ver los dibujos animados de Disney que eran proyectados a los japoneses que se encontraban en el campo de concentración Tule Lake durante la segunda guerra mundial. Después de asistir al Instituto de Arte Chouinard en Los Ángeles, trabajó como animador para el estudio de animación UPA (United Productions of America). Tiempo después, fundó Murakami Wolf, una compañía que realizó varios comerciales muy conocidos en la década de los 60 y 70. Se convirtió en el director de largometrajes de “When the Wind Blows” (“Cuando el Viento Sopla”) y “The Snowman” (“El Hombre de Nieve”). Después de haber establecido su residencia en Irlanda en los últimos años, Murakami falleció en febrero del 2014 a la edad de 80 años.  

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El sueño de ser un cantante de enka (Inglés)

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Su ropa es parte de su identidad (Inglés)

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Perseguir los sueños más allá de la raza o las tradiciones (Inglés)

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Estilo para cantar como uno (Japonés)

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El primer concierto en los Estados Unidos (Japonés)

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How he got on the All-Navy show on Ed Sullivan

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"Song for Anna"

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Performing in Japan

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On being Japanese and American

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Parents identification as Peruvian Okinawan

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