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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...
...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...
...people who have dropped out of the money economy for one reason or another," said Frances Gitter, "we'll allow them to barter for meals. Also, hopefully, we'll be able to open soup kitchens from the profits of the Restaurant." The Restaurant should open early this week...
Already The Film School boasts students enrolled in all eight of its courses, students who seem to be using the school as a full-scale film program. Frances Gitter said, "We have no structured program as yet, but we're working on it. They [the students currently enrolled] will want a progression from where they are and we want to be able to give them that without getting stuffy and heavy and losing flexibility. We realize that it is easier said than done...
...instructor is Steve Schlow who taught film and television at Penn State for four years before becoming film critic for WBUR radio. Frances Gitter calls Schlow the "most eloquent" member of the UCA staff...