Word: orson
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...CINEMA WAS LESS THAN HALF-FULL when I arrived Saturday night. A second-rate French murder movie had just ended, and eighty film buffs sat down in clusters, still shivering from the cold outside. Many of them, I learned, came from a former Orson Welles affiliate, the Film School...
WHEN TWO YOUNG Harvard Business School graduates conceived of the Orson Welles complex a few years ago, the Film School wasn't even part of the plans. Ralph Hoagland and Dean Gitter--the owner and the business manager--intended to organize a film production company, a theatre, a restaurant, and a camera shop under one aegis and one roof. The Film School began two years ago when a member of the Production Company put up signs in local laundromats offering a course in film appreciation. Eighty people signed up in two weeks, and the Orson Welles had found...
...Leeds reports that 10 per cent of the incoming 16 mm class has moved to Cambridge from out-of-state for the specific purpose of taking the course. Last July, because of the School's tremendous growth, Hoagland established it and the Production Company as organizations separate from the Orson Welles...
Others associated with the school proved to be even more optimistic. "Boston may very well become the center of the young film-making industry," Dal LaMagna, business manager of the Production Company explained. "And I think the Orson Welles can be at the center." Already one Boston-based company, he pointed out, is making feature length films, and the number of smaller production companies has been growing. LaMagna said he expects the Production Company--which has been limited to promotion "shorts" until now--to begin making features within two years...
...promised to return nonetheless--at least to watch some serious films . After all, things might change. Some day might appreciate or understand the bubble I walked past as I left the Orson Welles...