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Since the internet hasn't been developed as it is today, the main method of communication was by old fashioned mail. Here is a closer look at some of the snail mail I have gotten.

the communication methods used by anime enthusiasts in the 1980s and 1990's. The CFO. BBS.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRS7TtPkLRM

How I contacted the CFO.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AD_MLa3YcA

A personal letter with a member from the CFO Denver

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBwRVg9hatM&t=378s

A letter from Dundas, Ontario. Typical re-order of animes, Topic of donations and a real kickstarter like campaign. Oakville Ontario. Their small anime club enjoyed The story of Record of Lodoss Wars . Fredrick Fluery from Quebec. A fun letter made into a tape request. Brian Smith from New York. A letter referencing the 3G's.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gO-Ui29a5nw

Trout Lake Community Centre, Oakville Ontario, Dartmouth New Jersey, New York, and Boise Idaho

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ep3i0R1iJdU

A look of some fan letters asking for some fan subs from San Francisco, CA; Marina Del Rey, CA; Cambridge, MA; Oakland, CA;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=we04DY7zOMc

Taking a look at how we exchanged lists of our VHS tapes that we had with anime with the intention of using the list as trading material get more anime. Highly illegal but this is how spreaded the word of anime before the US companies started to release the anime.

https://youtu.be/Y_T_N7gwwu4

I will cover letters from Ian Warfield from Dely, ON and Salah from Kuwait, Pedro Coleman from New York, and Michael Doyle from Woodside, CA and Fidlis Orozoko from Princeton, NJ and Jee Woo from Orlock, CA and Kenneth Wolf from Winnipeg, MB

https://youtu.be/TuQF2VgLfxg

At this time, one of the only ways anime industry would spread the word of their releases was to mail out press releases to the fan clubs. I will show some of the ones I got from AnimEigo and US Manga Corps.

https://youtu.be/obl_y0jY1vc

I will go over some old fan letters to see how they found out about Arctic Animation. Letters from Gregory Bardi from New York, NY and David Allday from Houston, TX and Donald Wakefield from Portland, OR and Norm Yamane from Ottawa, ON and Philip Yee from Berkeley, CA and Antonio Amdrade from Pawtucket, RI and Dennis Cummings of Robotech Resistance and Ray Barker from Memphis, TN and Jerry Bouchard from Morgantown, WV.

https://youtu.be/-V7M0GwAR4k

Sometimes with the mass number of tape dubbing requests, there are mistakes made. Scott Sandwick of San Deigo, CA and Jimmy Park of Pasadena Park, CA and William Bennecke of Boise, ID and Richard B. Slay of Houston, TX Patrick Lapointe of St. Julie, Qc and Mark Browning stationed on the USS Independence (CV-62) and Young Su from Providence, RI. and Brian Danker from Corbel, CA

https://youtu.be/1NrcfxWOc_0

Letters from Linda Huynh from Winnepeg, MB & Pete Cucka from Hyattsville, MD and William Barnes from Delphi, MD and Alan from San Jose, CA and Louie Ambriz from Stockton, CA. and Mike North from Dartmouth, NS and Kevin Chin of Texas Instruments and Andrew Becker of Fort Collins, CO and Alex Barber of Vienna, VA and Alex Avery or San Fransico and Tom Jayanama of Ottawa, ON and Jonathan Bohannon of Escondido, CA and Stuart Abbot of Skaneateles Falls, NY and Gregory Baradi of New York, NY

https://youtu.be/obfJo1w_0DQ

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Fan Letters and Fan Mail

Since the internet hasn't been developed as it is today, the main method of communication was by old fashioned mail. Here is a closer look at some of the snail mail I have gotten.