In Tucson he began to habituate their great (and still thriving) arthouse cinema The Loft. He remembers the great Fellini film 8 1/2 particularly arousing his interest in film and especially European cinema.

'I fell naturally into this as I had developed such a love of radio and news as a boy'. He worked there at radio and TV stations in the newsroom of the local CBS affiliate. From Germany he moved to Arizona where he attended high school in Tucson. But he had grown up at his father's workplace, and knew radio production and and often hung out at the Munich station.

The sporting nature of which was largely overshadowed by the Munich massacre in which eleven Israeli athletes and coaches, a West German police officer, and five Palestinian Black September militants were killed. Then the next day - massacre.' On Septemdisaster struck the Olympics. 'The atmosphere that day was very free spirited and lively in the Olympic Village. He lived in Munich West Germany, and on Septemattended the Olympic Games there. His dad was Head of Radio Liberty, a Us government sponsored radio station that beamed Us government propaganda (let's call it that) to the countries of the (then large and active and now gone) Soviet Union. Edward was born in New Jersey and moved at one year of age to Munich, Germany.

So it is with impressed awe that we have watched his company expand and continue to represent great and important films. Thus we have a lovely personal connection to this great film guy. Our families know each other and we have been on many nice social occasions to each other's homes. Edward Noeltner has been a friend of ours in and out of 'the business' (as those of us who work in it tend to call it) for many years now.

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