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From: jfs@ih1ap.UUCP (Jesse Fred Shumway)
Newsgroups: net.kids
Subject: Re: getting one's baby into commercials - worthwhile?
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Date: Mon, 26-Nov-84 00:26:02 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov 26 00:26:02 1984
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Don't bother... brother

The "registration" fee is a scam. Sadly, there are  scores of 
people offering the same 'service' for impressionable 
teenage girls who've read too many fashion mags.
	
Reputable agencies don't have staff photographers willing photograph
your child for a fee. Nor, do they charge you anything up front.
If they think your child has the ability to sell lots of product
you won't have to pay anything other than their commission 
(10-20 percent) on the actual work they get for you.
Only established agencies that already do a good business in the 
adult talent markets will have a clientele that also need 
babies/children for their advertisements (most babies are pictured 
with a "mom", no?).  Any agency that is serious about increasing 
it's pool of young talent won't have to advertise. They'll be happy to 
spend the time it takes to review photos and/or a video tape of your
child.

I'm sure you don't want your child's role models to exhibit the 
vanity, surfaciousness, and duplicity that is regrettably the stock 
in trade of this business.

May I suggest you contact your local theatrical troupe if you 
see acting as an expanding experience for you child.


Jesse Fred Shumway
AT&T Technologies
IH 8b-108
Naperville, IL 60566
(312) 979-5815 , 8-367-5815
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