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SAN FRANCISCO<br />
Tack Naify, who had been a salesman for<br />
Warner Bros, in New Orleans, has<br />
joined the film payables staff in UATC's<br />
booking department.<br />
Melania Steele has left her position with<br />
Pacific Film Enterprises and is now employed<br />
at<br />
Jack Wodell Associates.<br />
C. F. "Mike'' Powers was honored with<br />
a belated birthday luncheon as WOMPI<br />
Man of the Year" at the Civic Center Holiday<br />
Inn May 17.<br />
A complete retrospective of the films ol<br />
Luchino Visconti is scheduled to begin with<br />
a special screening of "The Innocent" at<br />
the<br />
Castro Theatre May 31 prior to its regular<br />
engagement at the Caly Theatre June 8.<br />
The Castro presentation is in association<br />
with the Italian Institute of Culture. His<br />
other works will be shown at the Pacific<br />
Film Archive and at the University of<br />
Southern California-Berkley.<br />
Mrs. Jerry Collins wishes to thank everyone<br />
for the love and support shown to her<br />
and her family after her husband's death.<br />
LOS ANGELES<br />
]y[ann Theatres had sold the Fairfax Theatre<br />
to Jamiel Chetin, operator of the<br />
Picfair and 4 Star theatres.<br />
AFI Seminar Set for Aug.<br />
BEVERLY HILLS — Director of AFI-<br />
West Robert F. Blumofe has annoimccti<br />
that the second Summer Institute for Film<br />
and Humanities will be held at the CenUi<br />
for Advanced Film Studies here Aug. 5-11.<br />
The weeklong workshop, funded by the<br />
Rockefeller Foundation, is aimed al acquainting<br />
university-level film educators<br />
with the practical aspects of the molicni<br />
picture industry. The institute will be nuul<br />
erated by Dr. Sam Grogg, director of I Ik<br />
AFI National Education Services.<br />
United Artists Plans 2nd<br />
Sixplex for Santa Rosa<br />
SANTA ROSA. Calif. — The United<br />
Artists Theatre Circuit has announced plans<br />
Century projectors and Chiistie transport<br />
systems will be installed; American will<br />
provide the seats.<br />
DENVER<br />
Leonard Steele has broken ground for a<br />
new fourplex theatre to be erected in<br />
Spearfish, S.D. The new facility will be a<br />
part of a mew shopping center complex and<br />
will be equipped with on automated booth<br />
and the newest equipment available. The<br />
target date for opening is Labor Day. Steele<br />
also operates the Campus and Cine Theatres<br />
in Spearfish as well as theatres in Gillclti.',<br />
Wyo., and Gunnison, Colo.<br />
Chad and Kay DeCastro have sold the<br />
Peerless Theatre in Holyoke, Colo., to Ralph<br />
and Linda Stats. The DeCastros will continue<br />
to operate the Chaka Theatre in nearby<br />
Julesburg, Colo.<br />
The Box families have been coming and<br />
going. Bob Box, who is the branch manager<br />
for Paramount, traveled to Los Angeles for<br />
meetings. Jack Box, the branch manager for<br />
Universal, along with Mrs. Box, traveled to<br />
Oklahoma City on a vacation. Kathy Box,<br />
who is employed in the local Columbia<br />
Branch, joined her parents for the trip to<br />
Oklahoma City.<br />
Albert Johnson Returns<br />
To San Francisco Fest<br />
SAN FRANCISCO—Claude Jarman,<br />
director<br />
of the San Francisco International<br />
Film Festival, has announced that film<br />
tc build a second si.xplex in this northern<br />
California community.<br />
scholar and lecturer Albert Johnson will return<br />
to the staff of the festival this year to<br />
Construction of the complex, to be named<br />
Movies 6, is slated for early June. Seating<br />
will be similar to UA's other Santa Rosa<br />
be in charge of tributes.<br />
He will also coordinate a special afternoon<br />
program in conjunction with the Uni-<br />
theatres, the Cinema 6.<br />
versity Art Muscimi's Pacific Film Archive.<br />
Johnson last worked for the festival in<br />
1972.<br />
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The 23rd Annual San Francisco Film<br />
Festival will run Oct. 10-21 at the Palace<br />
of Fine Arts Theatre and the Castro Theatre.<br />
The festival will be accepting entries<br />
this summer through Aug. 1.<br />
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