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'Tango'

Henry can't resist his
amusing anecdotes and
personal ideas about films.
Reflecting on the paranoia of
the man in the projection
booth, he says:

"Projectionists become
hyper-sensitive about not
having anything go wrong with
their changeovers. But the
tension of doing it well all the
time gets to you, like the time
I was concentrating on the
changeover and loaded a reel
from a different film on the
projector and didn't realize it
until I saw it on the screen."

Side tracking again, Henry
goes on: "Films are coming
closer and closer to being
released in 16mm at the same
time as they are being released
for the public theaters in
35mm. We might be able to get
Brando's Last Tango in Paris as
early as Spring of next year.

Taking his views on films in
general, he describes them this
way:

"For me, film is more than
art because it is too versatile.
We can't define film as art in
the traditional sense, such as
painting, because it is a moving
medium. Maybe when
traditional art is defined to
encompass movement such as