tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-178669532012-01-07T16:41:12.250-06:00Following the mental processes of an obsessed filmmaker producing a documentary film with short funding, a lotta heart and a highly unusual subject he once met when he was 11 years old.floyd webbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14670921204957906507noreply@blogger.comBlogger199125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17866953.post-46416061854051379392011-10-26T00:47:00.001-05:002011-10-26T00:48:12.038-05:00

This advert is from the Chicago Tribune classified section, 1904, 35 years before Count Dante was born in 1939 and 64 years before his World's Deadliest Fighting Secrets was published Asian martial arts were already being touted as a self defense secret weapon. By the time John Timothy Keehan is born in Chicago in 1939, jiu jitsu is almost a common word, used in contemporary speech and denoted

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Been months since my last post. Secret investigations require secrecy. With all the crap I got I decided to tone it down with the blogging. I felt like I was accomplishing little, and I could be better served with silence. Yet there is value in a shared experience. I have had some crazy stuff happen and I have befriended some awesome people. Enough said about that. Some of my work lately has

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It has been 6 months since my last post. I have been continuing to conduct interviews, follow up on leads all in between day to day struggles of work and survival. The Search for Count Dante continues. Sorting out and vetting delusion accounts of his history is a big part of the job. Why did I stop blogging. Vetting the delusion was one reason, especially after 3 years of court. Best of all

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Today I went to Oak Forest, IL to Lee's Academy of Kung Fu. I interviewed Bob Bartkowski. Bob is a WIng Chun practicioner I have know since I started the film. I met him, like I did so many people concerned with Dante, over the internet. Bob has a unique take on the martial arts. He is a true fanatic for all martial arts including boxing. His enthusiasm is contagious. He reminded me of the

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In 1967, I lived in Ft Benning, Georgia where my father was an Airborne Ranger recently returned from Vietnam. I had been a victim of bullies, who demanded I conform to a pack mentality that excluded the love of books when I lived in the projects. I needed a magic bullet, Muhammad Ali boxing skills, something. After months of watching martial arts in old movies from Mr Moto, Spencer Tracy in Bad

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We were all "Karate Kids." Out of the tragic events of World War II came a renewed interest in the Orient. Conquered and maybe even bowed, the influence of Japanese and other Asian cultures would have as much influence upon popular American Culture as rock and roll for the rest of the 20th century. That influence would be martial arts.Judo had been practiced in the US since before Teddy Roosevelt

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We have begin a promotion campaign on the"The Search for Count Dante, as I continue production. My investor in the UK is screening trailers at big Mixed Martial Arts Events like The Ultimate Warrior Challenge, taking place this Saturday, June 5, in Southend-on-Sea, UK. It will be on the big video screen. Jim Quattrocki shot this with me over a year ago.We will begin to do the same at Events here

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Johnny Coulon was not only a championship boxer but he was a showman and somewhat of a "dim mak Master himself. Watch the following clip. SWISS ATHLETES HAVE NOW SUCCEEDED IN LIFTING JOHNNY COULONYour browser does not support iframes.Coulon presented this trick as a challenge all over the country and around the world. I can imagine how impressed with Coulon a 12 year old John Keehan would be.

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The court case is over. My copyright infringement case has been settled at the request of the plaintiff. I was not proven a criminal, I have a right to use the materials I want from the 1968 Book copyrighted by Count Dante for my documentary. My right to Fair Use was looked upon favorably by Judge Mark Wolf. You can see the final documents pertaining to the settlement in a couple of weeks at

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I begin this entry with a bit of sadness, I learned of the death of my good friend Natambu Camera Bomani Shihan who allowed me the honor of working out in his dojo when I lived in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania in the mid-1970s. He died in Ghana last summer of a massive heart attack. I had been in touch with him over the past few years after not speaking to him for over 20 years. Bomani taught two

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Well for those of you who keep writing to ask about the blog, here I am again. I slowed down the blog during the court case because of verbal attacks on informants I mentioned here. None of the people who provided me with information deserve to be lied about and ridiculed on Bullshido.net. 2 people in Fall RIver, MA ( that's right, 2 people) disagree with me about not making them a major part of

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(I have to acknowledge the death of conductor/composer George Kub. George was in the office right above mine in the Fine Arts Building. When I was burning the midnight oil he was often there there playing piano until after 1:00 am. It was my working background music for the last two years. He shared an office with the woman I suspect of giving Keehan singing lessons. Maria D'Albert is over 80

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My lawyer, Anthony Falzone, Executive Director of the Fair Use Project and a Lecturer in Law at Stanford Law School, used my trailer for The Search for Count Dante in his lecture at the Open Video Conference in New York this past Friday. He presented it as a case history for Fair Use and how it relates to the development of what is called Open Video.This is from their "About:"As internet video

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I want to acknowledge my friend and supported Karl Kraft in England who has been going out of his way to help me find people in the UK who may have bought The World's Deadliest Fighting Secrets. Karl is a graphic designed and games developer. He designed a great little flyer for the film that he has been posting in dojos and fight clubs all over London. He has really been dedicated in doing this

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I have been working on a timeline of Martial Arts in America and came across this one in Emil Farkas's wonderful book. I have added some events that are directly related to John Keehan and Chicago to the timeline. I will continue to add things as I discover them. If any of you see any error or omissions please feel free to email me at fwebb@itutu.comIf you are going to research history you may as

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I got a call from Jimmy Jones last week to inform me that William Hinton, the author of Men of Steel Discipline: The Official Oral History of Black Pioneers in the Martial Arts (1994). A memorial was held today on the Southside, not far from the Church that has Gregory Jaco's memorial.I spoke to Billy several times in the course of my research before he moved to Atlanta. I was shocked once again

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April 23 has come and gone. It was the day of the Dojo War between the Green Dragons and Count Dante. I did not mention it. I got a couple of emails from people remembering Jim Konsevic and wishing me luck on the film. I have talked to Konsevic's cousin about the film recently as well. He is a great person and really gets what the film is about. I am really happy he reached about to me because I

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In 1923, after the success of his film Nanook of the North, director Robert Flaherty was hired by Paramount Pictures to go to Samoa to capture the traditional life of Pacific islanders on film. His film, Moana (1926) is considered the first docufiction in the history of cinema.The word "documentary" was first applied to this film in a review of this movie written by "The Moviegoer", a pen name

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Happy New Year, Y'all! I am back. The Search for Count Dante goes on as does life. We got a new president. I worked the campaign a few days, nothing serious. I am happy he won, now down to business.My research and shooting continues. Since October I have made more discoveries about Dante's past. I have found someone who actually remembers John Keehan from Coulon's Gym in Chicago back in the

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A 3 minute version of the film is being syndicated by Cinelan.com. It was just featured in on Telegraph.co.uk on Wednesday, October 8. It was a feature right along with my man Vladamir Putin's new judo DVD. Thinks ar moving ahead, slowly but surely. I will be bloggiong more in the next few days, I will be out in LA next week getting a few interviews. I will report on that when I return.

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John Keehan/Count Danté, John Danté? Another mystery arises, maybe not. Are Count Dante and John Danté 2 people or 1 person of many personas? He was was known in the hutch, His Bunny Mother girlfriend, Patty Kobe, may have fired one of the women I spoke with. The woman above thinks John Keehan Dante was the one who chose her as a Playboy Bunny when she was 17, in very creepy circumstances. There

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What makes the story of the John Keehan/Count Danté's life so intriguing is the variety of experiences he managed to cram into 35 years of living.When Keehan returned to Chicago after being in the military in the early 60s, he decided to go to beauty school to become a hairdresser. Art Rapkin explained to me that John chose hairdressing for two reasons. It gave him the freedom to work whatever

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