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...very different direction," says John Gianvito, Associate Curator of the Harvard Film Archive...
...continues to stay alive, says Gianvito. The theater continues to use a projection system modeled after the one used in 1953. Unlike at most movie theaters where the projector beams from the back of the theater, the Brattle's projection booth operates from behind the screen. The system is one of the last of its kind in the country...
...arrive at Gianvito's office and we start talking about his interest in film and his involvement with the Archive. "I'm an obsessive filmgoer," the soft-spoken young-looking man confesses right away, going so far as to guess that most of his life has been spent in the dark...
...Gianvito and I get to talking about where the Archive gets its funding and he explains that the University pays for overhead costs and the salary of the tiny staff while course budgets take care of week-night films. But when I press him, he concedes that this is the extent of Harvard's support. There is no fountain of funds set aside to finance his weekend film series; he is more or less bound to take in enough in receipts over the course of the week to pay for his Friday and Saturday programs...
Finally, it comes out that Gianvito has been working on a film for the last several years, using "small grants and 12 credit cards." The movie has been shot and its first 70 minutes have been edited in a room adjoining the one we are sitting...