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CLAUDE JARMAN: Just people who had the time to attend. MARGARITA LANDAZURI: A lot of film students, young people. CLAUDE JARMAN: Yes, exactly. MARGARITA LANDAZURI: And also, journalists noted that the Festival was attracting younger crowds. You think the retrospectives were a part of that? CLAUDE JARMAN: It was part of it, I think. It was’65, ’66; and there was a lot of turmoil around the country. Vietnam, student unrest at Berkeley, it got to be a very big boiling pot, and San Francisco was right in the heart of it, so there was a lot going on in those days. A lot of anger—it was interesting. When you get into some of the movies that, for example, Clint Eastwood did, people didn’t want to see anything to do with violence on the street. Over 15 years, it went through several cycles. MARGARITA LANDAZURI: How was this kind of— CLAUDE JARMAN: I don’t think we were mindful of it, but I don’t think it affected how we went about our business. Let’s get into the second year, the tenth Festival. MARGARITA LANDAZURI: OK. This is the tenth. There were, again, some great retrospectives that year. Why don’t you talk a little about some of your favorites. CLAUDE JARMAN: Well, let’s see. What happened in the second year, we had a new general chairman. Mel Swig was one year, and then we had Dave Sacks, who was the general manager of KGO. We still had Bill Boyd. We had Albert on the payroll at that point; I don’t think he was the first year. MARGARITA LANDAZURI: He did it as a volunteer? CLAUDE JARMAN: I think that first year—Maybe he got some money. During the first year we had Lorena Cantrell coming in. 13
MARGARITA LANDAZURI: What was her role? CLAUDE JARMAN: That year she was head of the competition. Went on becoming the number two— She was the executive secretary. Lorena was unusual. MARGARITA LANDAZURI: Is she still around? CLAUDE JARMAN: No. She died a couple years ago. A wonderful, dedicated person. But we had a Festival board, a lot of the same people. MARGARITA LANDAZURI: This was Shirley Temple’s resignation year, wasn’t it? CLAUDE JARMAN: Yes, and then they had the selection committee. That’s when we had the Night Games controversy. MARGARITA LANDAZURI: What was that about? Can you talk about that? CLAUDE JARMAN: When we decided to show the film, we had a meeting at the Chamber. Shirley just said, “I don’t think we should show the film,” and we had a discussion—Barney, myself, Herb Gold and— MARGARITA LANDAZURI: Niven Busch, you said. CLAUDE JARMAN: Probably Niven. And we just said, “We’re going to show the film.” And she said, “If you guys show the film, I’m going to quit.” MARGARITA LANDAZURI: You supported showing the film. CLAUDE JARMAN: Definitely. I went to Dave Sacks and I said, “Look, we’ve got this issue we’re dealing with. We just can’t allow somebody to say we can’t show a film because it’s provocative. And 14
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