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An article in the issue of 'Selection du Reader's Digest' for December 1970 made mention of TV programs made by Jean-Claude Meunier and Carlos Corda, the first series of which was broadcast during the Mardi Gras holidays in 1970, ie around February 10th, with a second series in production. Note that the name 'Jean-Claude Meunier' is an error for 'Jean-Charles Meunier'. My thanks to Michel Grand for pointing this out.

Inter alia this says, roughly translated: 'In search of a wider audience, a young filmmaker, M Jean-Claude Meunier, decided last year to produce a series of 13 programs for television devoted to the practice of origami. Thanks to his initiative, during the 1970 Mardi Gras holidays, viewers were able to follow, every day for six minutes, the different stages of a folding presented by the Argentniian Carlos Corda, a great paperfolder.

The success was immediate. 200 letters received, two of which were signed by a whole class of schoolchildren. Most correspondents were educators curious to know more about Japanese art. Carlos Corda and J-C Meunier got back to work. The first shapes his little wonders in the paper while the second films over his shoulder. A new series of 13 programs of nine minutes each will be broadcast during the Christmas holidays.'

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1971

Adolfo Cerceda mentioned the second series of 13 episodes in a letter to the Editor of 'The Origamian' which was published in Vol 10 Issue 2,3 and 4 in around August 1971, although it was probably written much earlier in the year.

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