The last picture show
In 1968, for the University of Nevada, Reno’s summer session, Howard Rosenberg started a film class which eventually became a campus fixture. Last week, 50 years later, he showed the last film of his last class before retiring, though he has one class session left this week. Over the years, filmmakers like Frank Capra and performers like Orson Welles made the trek to Reno to speak to Rosenberg’s class. Each semester dealt with either a particular filmmaker or a theme—war, say, or politics. The first and last films he showed were the same—Capra’s Lost Horizon. Attending Rosenberg’s last film was his first projectionist, Donald Billy Hudson. Hudson was replaced about 1998 by John Ford, seen here behind Rosenberg, and Ford too has done the job as a volunteer. The film class will continue with a somewhat different format under experimental filmmaker Dominic Angerame.
PHOTO/DENNIS MYERS
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