FLICKS FILM AND VIDEO FILE : Scarlett Fever : Ms. O’Hara’s story, told in a beloved, much-praised 1939 epic, comes to Ojai.

Most of the films on the Ojai Film Society schedule need some sort of an introduction. Take this weekend’s presentation at the Ojai Playhouse.

It’s a little film called “Gone with the Wind.” You may have heard of it. It stars Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Leslie Howard, Olivia de Havilland, Hattie McDaniel, etc., etc.

The 1939 film, set during the Civil War, garnered eight Academy Awards, including those for Best Picture, Best Director (Victor Fleming), Best Actress (Leigh), and Best Supporting Actress (McDaniel). Mike Janover of the Film Society said the copy of the film to be shown in Ojai is one of just three 35-millimeter prints now circulating around the country.

Showtime is 2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday--and don’t worry, there will be an intermission during the nearly four-hour film. The Playhouse is located at 145 E. Ojai Ave.

Flexibility is essential in the film business. And the proposed “Chaplin” film, to be produced and directed by Richard Attenborough, is a perfect example.

Back in March, location scouts were traipsing around Bardsdale and an area west of Fillmore, looking for places to shoot scenes for the movie about the life of Charlie Chaplin. Evidently, the studio for the first Hollywood movie Chaplin made was in an orange grove. The scouts were looking for a site they could make resemble that studio.

About the same time, Universal Pictures dropped its backing of the film and everything suddenly was put on hold. It was optimistically estimated then that production would begin in May. Now, four months after that hoped-for starting time, crews are finally back in Ventura County preparing sets for the film.

They have been setting things up on Pasadena Avenue in Bardsdale and at Sanitary (or Hardison) Dairy on Old Telegraph Road west of Fillmore. Filming is expected to begin at the dairy in mid-October and in Bardsdale several weeks later.

This summer’s “Silents Under the Stars” film series will conclude Sunday with the 1920 movie “The Toll Gate.” The series has been sponsored by the National Parks Service and the Silent Society of Hollywood Heritage Inc. The films previously were shown at Paramount Ranch in Agoura Hills, but this one will be at William S. Hart Ranch in Santa Clarita.

Not all that coincidentally, the featured film stars Hart as a runaway outlaw who saves a boy’s life and then becomes involved with the boy’s widowed mother. Showtime is 7:30 p.m. (but a free tour of the Hart Museum will begin at 4 p.m.) General admission to the movie is $6 at the door. Remember, it will be shown “under the stars,” so dress appropriately. For more information or directions call (213) 874-2276.