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...successor as head of the Cambridge Growth Project, which has developed a model of the British economy: "He is passionately enthusiastic about economic statistics. All his professional life has been devoted to the measurement of income and wealth, and he is very keen on getting it systematized." Adds George Jaszi, director of the U.S. Commerce Department's Bureau of Economic Analysis: "There is a tremendous sense of system to his work, and also tremendous elegance. He was and is a giant...
Which of course led to duplication with the Brattle. At one point both theaters were running a Jean Renoir film festival at the same time. Eventually Peter Jaszi '68, a student at Harvard Law School who programmed for Gitter, began to restrict the Welles mainly to American films, in keeping with Gitter's original theory. At this point Jaszi began the laudable Welles format of keeping a directorial retrospective going on in at least one of the theaters--the practice that has disappeared today. Jaszi, now a lawyer for the American Film Institute, also began the film appreciation class that...
Frances Gitter, administrative director of UCA's latest venture, The Film School, and wife of Dean Gitter, one of the founding fathers of the Welles, explains the philosophy behind the UCA complex: "From the beginning, Dean and Peter [Peter Jaszi, program director at the Welles], and I felt that the actual presentation of films had been so plastic. We wanted a place where people could sit-down and talk. We've always thought of the Welles as a framework for generating real community feeling...
...instructor is Peter Jaszi who teaches Humanities 197a at Harvard -where you can take his course on John Ford for $275 more than you would pay at The Film School. Jaszi is director of programming at the Welles Cinema. His film criticism has appeared in the CRIMSON, Boston After Dark, and Film Quarterly...
Others arrested besides Jaszi were: Ted Chin-Fan I., Orson Welles general manager; Ted C. Uzzle '71, projectionist; Dean L. Gitter '56, president and owner; and Robert Payne, manager...