director  at allplanet.com
Date:  Mon, 10 Jul 2006 14:04:28 -0700

Hi Gabreal, 
Please pass on to Larry. We all pray for his recovery.

Dear Larry, 
This is the first I have heard from or about you in
many years, although I have thought about you often. 
My thought is always of you as the true originator of
electronic editing. Long before there was the Avid, or
the Final Cut or any other system, there was MIDAS
really before MIDAS there was you. 
I undertand you are ill. I am very very sorry to learn
that. Also that you are in Southern China -- this I
did not know. 
My message is that you are very ill, and I am so very
sad to learn that and I hope a recovery is possible. 
I want you to know that, unless I hear bright news,
and what I am being told is true -- that your time
(like mine) is entering it's final act -- I want you
to know how wonderful was the collaboration I made
with you. And as long as I live, I will always tell
everyone that it was Larry Seehorn who was the true
originator, inventor of the electronic editing system.
I will not let people forget that. 

Hoping I hear something back, I remain 
your friend, 

Francis Coppola