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Note 1: "Discussion - Roppongi. Obsession."; Note 2: CDI 1. Smith, Carole, Jun, mosata? Others,: money matters, buget, 2. several Japnese voices and Smith explanation 3. Spanish Village story 4. Carole joking and Hitachi talk 5. Smith writing "George Saito" Madsuda-san, thank you's and goodbyes 6. black market food and Smith's old fashioned concept of machinery, 7. Okamoto, State Department, May 25 deadline.8. logistics, ferrocyanide in Japan 9. Smith on printing "Jun" 10. cont'd 11. photo instructions subtleties of printing 12. Carole: "I baby sit for her little childre, Greenwich Village" dancer/model? Jumps to TV/radio narrative on Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett 13. cont'd 14. cont'd CDII 1. static and cont'd narrative "Obsession" title? 2. Jumps to Japanese anouncer then Jose Jimenez comedic astronaut skit, "Jose in Orbit" 3. Marvin Miller on US Armed Forces radio "Behind the Story" with narration on entrepreneur. 4. INterview with James Hunt of Army Motion PIcture Services. films to troops. 5. News, invasion of Privacy vs. national security, Wire Tapping issues. JFK news. Other News May/June 1961?) Spring Sotrms 6. Basball News, 7. Basic trining segment 8. radio drama and some jumps, ends with "The Workshop" with writer Hector Chevany.;

Note 1: "Jan 1962. W. Eugene Smith. 2 hours 3 3/4 some in Japanese. Supper at Prof."; Note 2: CDI 1. Smith, Carole, Japanese males, with tranlation. Some water and food sounds. Carole as "artist" not secretary. 2. Smith's beard "red beard" mecurichrome? Red dye? (white beard) 3. beard talk, Mishiyama/Nishiyama? 4. Smith on work, 8pm ? 5. small talk 6. Pittsburgh, airplanes, aircraft designer prior career wish (childhood) 7. more photo talk and reference to upstairs neighbors 8. Japanese talk and phone calls referenced. 9. "unfit for society" "eccentricity" ...editors 10. Smith's merits discussed in English and Japanese 11. Smith career and standards vs. compromise 12. Smith's integrity and photo work for Hitachi 13. Smith on Japan work 14. honesty and truth (not the same) Ends during translation. CDII 1. recorder Smith and Japanese vox, food and Sake. Cosmo/Hitachi. 2. Smith on Smith, then small talk 3. cont'd 560 photos 4. Smith on book, drugs, Carole, layouts and drawings to scale, 380 pages. 5. Carole's talents 6. cont'd talk, reference to September 24 7. Saipan, photos Okinawa photo. 8. small talk and translation, Otomo. 9. poetry UC Press McIntyre translation of Steven Spender The Struggle of the Modern. 10. train photos and Carole Thomas 11. Otomu, Osaki?? Camera, editors. Asahi Camera magazine, 12. importance of understanding** on Kennedy Lecture day after tomorrow (Feb 6?) Tuesday. 13. small talk and laughter. (English and Japanese) ;

Note 1: "Part is Stereo. About Interview. Calls Mackland, Dolan, Okamoto, and Asmp. include some phone calls. End part continues Aug. 4th (Friday) call to Okamoto in Japan. (2nd Call) Also Part of interview with Louis? (Wrote Article) Also part of phone call - Dolan - Aug 7. 1st room talk misc. Before class."; Note 2: CDI 1. Dial tone and call ASMP Yvonne (Carole Thomas calling) Roger Keohane, Yvonne on Smith and Maclin, Smith's converns 2. new call to smith writer wants an interview (Brooklyn) invited over, given address "new aluminum front" 3. call to Time Incorporated for Ray Maclin, Kate answers, Tokyo letter, $25,000 assignment, Sterling movies. Tokyo friend. end of call 4. call to Sterling Movies, Dolan's office. expected to call Smith back after noon. CDII 1. apt. Carole, other, and Smith. 1. 2. putter and conversation with Smith (previous phone caller? 17 yr. old student) good interview on Smith's photography 3. cont'd editors the audience, integrity and leaving Magnum. 4. cont'd Magnum, Pittsburgh, Spanish Village, Midwife, country doctor, Haiti story, phone call for Smith 5. Smith returns and continues interview. editing, fight for stories, 6. current assignments, Life, Look Magazines, writer, in high school, 17 years old. persective 7. integrity and courage, reference to Miami conference, public vs. private opinion of Smith 8. Smith's work best 3 portraits Dentist, Mother, daughter looking at a twig.*** reference to Avedon, Irving Penn, vs. Avedon's book. 9. cont'd Smith vs. Avedon book. reference to Isak Dineson. and truth/art. 10. cont'd, reference to assignment research, turned down Adlai Stevenson assignment. 11. Cornell Capa reference 12. cont'd talk, Pop Photo, Smith's writing. Photo Annual, Smith's success 13. cont'd phone call. refers to Cartier Bresson, Mike Wallace, Dolan call. Smith on events re: Keohane, Ray Maclin. 14. cont'd reputation vs perception, Matsuda, Okamoto, Money and more. 15. rumor vs. Smith Schweitzer sotry, Carole and more. CDIII 1. street sounds, Smith and Carole Thomas. interviewer is "Louis" Smith dictating checks to Kline, F&S. Reference to loft alarm. 2. cont'd 3. cont'd 4. bills, and finances 5. Al Esformes check. 6. cont'd Cooper Union ref. 7. cont'd 8. cont'd, ambient street more audible 9. putter and talk, bills, phone call, Norma's 10. Overton's stuff, bill paying 11. lvey dovey talk 12. ref. to Taeko Yokamoto, small tallk, jumps to more talk and phone call 13. prints, copy negatives, Tommy Jons, other story of war negatives in the wastebasket. 14. process, plate, tonal values, parade Magazine, Smith's printing, and other small talk 15. need for negative, IPAN ANSCO ad agency "Richard" and Carole's mother discussed at end. CDIV 1. loft putter footstpes cont'd with mild buzz-5. ??Lin and Gin (Halliday) reference to Tom Wayburn. "We have sessions up here, just swept the floor, when the session is over...cigarette butts, ...right in the floor." 6. putter 7. talk off mic 8. cont'd with loud street ambient (mic in window?) 9. cont'd. CDV 1. quiet loft with some movemnt -5. putter and radio pickup (wires) 6. phone call to Smith 7. Mr. Okamoto, AT&T, RCA, cablegram joke. re Dolan's check for Smith. Smith story, Airlines, Norma, need for $500. logistics, Matsuda Cosmo, Okamoto. 8. cont'd Pennsylvania Bank on 32nd and 7th. advance to Smith's Chase Manhattan Bank, logistics, check on way? 9. cont'd Smith's case, pending details. Smith's concerns 10. regarding Dolan, Okamoto carole OTaeko. ...;

Note 1: "April 3, 1961. Telephone call to Tokyo. 7 1/2."; Note 2: CDI 1. (April 3, 1961?) phone ring, Smith call for Tokyo, Richard Okamoto Hitachi, Matsuda, logistics, fiscal year started April, situation 2. cont'd talk and operator interrupts. 3. Smith's situation, printing, Taeko recorder, for a record of the whole trip. **** Jumps to LJN Long John Nebel Show. 4. discussion and ads WOR 710 AM. 5. Guests Mel Shalome, L. Riley, Emerson Coyle, Mr. Hines. to crimes story, featured guest is Alan Hynd, author of Murder, Mayhem, and Mystery. Stories and crime -9. 10. ad for Jet Air Tires and end of LJN show 11. Jumps back to LOFT, street ambient, and Smith v quiet phone call recording with buzz and buried sound. -13. CDII 1. phone dial tone and buzz, overlap with previeous? 2. Smith calling time. 1:21:00 Tokyo talk with Carole "247" and some other Japan details. 3. cont'd call to Richard Okamoto, W. Eugene Smith, they'll call him. Jumps to talk with Okamoto, Taeko, Keiichiro Sato referenced. 4. cont'd with small talk, Smith and Carole, reference to Matsuda and Taeko before end of call. Jumps to LJN show 5. reference to Tin Pan Alley 6. telegrams, Jumps to other LJN 8. silent then loud feedback and times from phone line 1:17:10-1:19:10 9. silence with buzz-10. ends. ;

Note 1: "Folk songs on TV. Some street scenes from Roppongi window on both sides. 2nd side. Winslow Boy and Ray Micland."; Note 2: CDI 1. Japanese window, folksongs on TV, 5. new scene on TV 6. cont'd with Smiht's voice, jumps to talk show then back to TV and apartment ambient -7.cont'd. CDII 1. Theater Classics "The Winslow Boy" starring Ray Milland. Host intro and drama begins Tokyo Radio station. -11. 12. apartment and ambient street, Smith's voice, dog barking, buzzer, typewriter, footsteps. ;