Statesman Journal from Salem, Oregon • Page 10

American Movie Classics Due for Showings in Area 10-(Sec I) Statesman, Jan. 11,76 2nd Film Company Plans To Make Home in State EfWWiNME By RON COWAN Statesman Entertainment Writer The state of Oregon, which already has one film production company, will gain its second this year, with both fledgling firms plan- Jan. 27; "Duck Soup," 1933, Jan. 29; "Footlight Parade," 1933, Feb. 10; "Twentieth Century," 1934, Feb.

12; "It Happened One Night," 1934, Feb. 17; "Mr. Deeds Goes to Town," 1936, Feb. 19; "Swing Time," 1936, March "Holiday," 1937, March "His Girl Friday," 1940, March "The Philadelphia Story," 1940, March 11; "Ninotchka," 1939, March 16; "My Little Chickadee," 1040, March 18; "Dumbo," 1941, April "Sullivan's Travels," 1942, April 13; "On The Town," 1949, April 15, and "The Quiet Man," 1952, April 20. showing a Monday night series of 1920s and 1930s movies through March Willamette is continuing last semester's comprehensive collection of American film Jan.

20 through April 20 (Tuesday and Thursday nights) and Chemeketa, with the only free series, is featuring the work of two transplanted foreign film makers who have done their best work in America, now through March 10 on Wednesday nights. The Corvallis films, all at 7:30 p.m., are John Ford and Mervyn Leroy's 1955 "Mister Roberts," Monday; John Ford's 1958 "The Last Hurrah," Jan. 19; Robert Rossen's 1949 mng mm premiers in the state. Both have so far made ample use of what Oregon has plenty of beautiful scenery. The older of the two is North American Film Enterprises, a Eugene-based compa The Bicentennial promises to be a year that some people will see as simply wretched excess, while others find it a success story fully to their taste.

One aspect of the American experience which has combined qualities of both excuses and success into a diverse and exciting history has been American film and as part of the Bicentennial year, Mid-Willamette Valley residents will be able to see some of the best of American film production, five nights a week. Oregon College of Education in Monmouth, Che-meketa Community College and Willamette University in Salem and the Corvallis Arts Center are among those offering series of films this winter and spring which demonstrate why the U.S. has long dominated the film market. Corvallis Arts Center is featuring a series of six films on Monday nights, Jan. 12 to Feb.

16; OCE is Cowan contributed $50,000, which Gallery has decided to use as a challenge for matching donations from local residents. Earlier gifts include $7,500 from the Millicent Foundation and a number of gifts ranging from $250 to $1,000. The first $75,000 will go to the first stage of their plans, purchase of their leased building at 2nd and Ford streets. Stage two of the plans calls for a two-story addition at a cost of $165,000. When all is completed, they hope to mount a Summer Festival of American Theater comparable to Ashland's Shakespearean Festival.

6 Condominiums Damaged by Fire BEND (AP) Fire and smoke damaged six condominium units Friday night at the Inn of the Seventh Mountain, a resort five miles southwest of Bend. Five of the units were occupied, but no one was injured. Fire officials said they believe the fire started when flames in a fireplace ignited a wooden frame supporting the metal fireplace in a second-floor unit. Damage was estimated at $40,000. One production is eyeing the Tillamook County area and Jack Nicholson is still working on plans for "Moontrap," which he plans to direct in Oregon this summer.

Merrill, who will visit Hollywood soon in his ongoing effort to lure production here, thinks Oregon may feel the sting if pending federal legislation restricting tax shelters passes in Congress. The proposed law would stop investors from taking a tax write-off for money lost in film investments. The loophole has made even such losers as "The Great Gatsby" a bonanza for investors and made chancy films possible. Another problem for Oregon is the lure of Canada, which is going all-out to invite productions by having the government assume a portion of the production costs up to one half. With a $10 million annual budget, in Canada's program it would be hard for Oregon to compete with that.

Merrill claims to have some major productions virtually wrapped up for Oregon in 1976, however. A CHALLENGING EFFORT: The McMinnville amateur theater group, Gallery Players of Oregon, has recorded its largest gift so far in its $495,000 development drive. Dr. and Mrs. Walter P.

Dyke of McMinnville have directed and John Fabian was cinema-tographer-producer, with local talent among the actors. Another new company, Wildlife Film Associates, plans to move this year from Santa Monica, to Medford, with work on its second Oregon film to start this summer. The first effort, "Spirits of the Wild," has Rogue River, Bend and Bachelor Butte location film and will premier Feb. 4 in Oregon, with the location still unannounced. Filmed at about the same cost as the sasquatch movie, "Spirits" is a color production dealing with a boy, a cougar and a coyote the kind of cast which generally guarantees a wide family audience in Oregon.

Dave Siddon, who has a ranch in Grants Pass, is writer-director of the film, with Larry Shapiro as executive producer. Warren Merrill, the movie mastermind for Gov. Bob Straub, says both films are "out of the ordinary" in quality and could do well. Oregon, which has come to like the movie dollar in such recent productions as Fantasy Film's "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," should have a good year with more location filming in 1976. "All The King's Men," Jan.

26; William Wellman's ny which recently filmed its first effort, a saga of the Northwest's much talked about and rarely seen native, "Sasquatch, The Legend of Bigfoot." Filmed last year in the Bend, McKen-zie River and Bachelor Butte areas for a cost in excess of $300,000, the semi-documentary will open in Eugene on Jan. 28. The movia, which incorporates some 1967 film supposedly showing a female sasquatch, has seven men searching for the creature in the wilderness of northern British Columbia. The color film includes wolves and a cougar and bear among its cast. Ed Ragozzino I Doors llpen 12:45 itf ft 1 jvGd(ow (aksxoifG Mm jf Doors 0pn MS SM IP Lffy waiiM1-t3 rfcjl Doors Open M5 1BmB I 1mtnt "TJI SSI 1943 "The Ox-Bow Incident," Feb.

Daniel Mann's 1959 "The Last Angry Man," Feb. and Fred Zinnemann's 1955 the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, Feb. 16. Close at hand is the Monday movie series at OCE, with 7 p.m. showings in the College Center.

This Monday is "Metropolis," a 1926 film which is German-made, followed by American films which include the 1925 "Lost World," a silent film, Jan. 19; the 1925 "The Gold Rush," with a musical soundtrack, Jan. 26; 1926's "The General," a silent, Feb. 1932's "The Westerner," Feb. 1932's "Sign of The Cross," Feb.

16; 1934's "It Happened One Night," Feb. 23; 1940's "My Little Chick-A-Dee," March 1, and 1930's "Sahara," March 8. Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton and W. C. Fields are amont the stars of these classics.

OCE also has a Friday night series of films continuing through March 12, with such recent productions as "Claudine," at 6:45 and 9 p.m. this Friday and "The Last Picture Show," at the same times on Feb. 20. Chemeketa Community College is spotlighting the work of Fritz Lang and Roman Polanski in its Wednesday night Winter film series, offered in conjunction with the Introduction to Film Directors classes and financed by a National Endowment for the Humanities grant The free films are shown at 7:30 p.m. in Room 112 of Building 2.

This Wednesday is Lang's 1930 German film with Peter Loire as a psychotic child killer, followed by Lang's American films: The 1936 "Fury," Jan. 21; 1941's "Manhunt," Jan. 28; 1944's "The Woman In The Window, "Feb. and 1943's "Hangmen Also Die," Feb. 11.

Roman Polanski's 1962 Polish film "Knife in the Water," opens the Polanski segment on Feb. 18, followed by the 1966 British film "Cul-De-Sac," Feb. 25, and the American-made films "Dance of The Vampires," 1967, on March 3, and 1968s "Rosemary's Baby," March 10. Not part of the series, but being shown Feb. 20 by the Associated Students of Chemeketa Community College, is 1974s "Chinatown," possibly the best Polanski film.

Willamette University's film series, offered Tuesday and Thursday nights in Waller Hall auditorium, will include 18 classic American comedy films, all shown at 7:30 p.m. Opening the series Tuesday, Jan. 20, will be the 1925 film "The Gold Rush," followed by "The General," another 1925 film, on Jan. 22. Others are "Love Me Tonight," 1932.

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