American Film, Volume VII, Number 3
Subtitle: December 1981
Publisher: American Film Institute
Published: December 1981
Language: eng
Format: Magazine
Number of pages: 88
Description: $2.00 cover price. Cover photo of James Cagney by Mary Ellen Mark.
Table of contents: label: The Editing Room
pagenum: 5; label: Letters
pagenum: 6; label: Newsreel
pagenum: 9
title: Brief Hollywood articles.; title: Trevor Griffiths on "The Comedians" and "Reds"
label: Reed's Writer; title: "The Cotton Club"
label: Cotton Comes to Christmas; title: The making of "Jailhouse Rock"; title: Hollywood Walk of Fame
label: Stars Bare Their Soles; label: Dialogue on Film: Carl Reiner
pagenum: 13
title: From Sid Caesar's second banana to directing Steve Martin.; label: Explorations: The Qwazy World of Sally Cruikshank
pagenum: 22
title: A young animator has almost single-handedly revived the Depression-era "funny animal" cartoon.; title: Developments in programming and technology affecting the home viewer
label: The Video Scene; label: Breaking the Sound Barrier
pagenum: 25
title: Stereo TV is the best thing to come down the tube since color.; label: Camera Eye: The Vasulkas
pagenum: 27
title: Artists who explore the camera instead of the world.; label: Videography
pagenum: 31
title: Listing of movies available on home video.; label: Comment: I Am Not a Movie Person
pagenum: 34
title: Novelist Thomas Berger has flirted with movies for years, but he'd really rather stay at home and watch television - alone.; label: Ragtime: Milos Forman Searches for the Right Key
pagenum: 38
title: Can who orchestrate Doctorow's mix of fact, fancy, romance, and rebellion?; label: Howard Rollins
pagenum: 42
title: Playing a rebel, not a terrorist.; label: The Return of the Grown-Up Movie
pagenum: 46
title: After years of babysitting the sandbox set, movies are rediscovering the Geritol generation (i.e., over thirty).; label: Coming of Age in Film
pagenum: 52; label: Looking for Nicholas Ray
pagenum: 54
title: In his last years, the director became trapped in the film he never made.; label: The Golden Age of Television
pagenum: 57; label: Fifties TV: Gold or Dross?
pagenum: 58
title: Assessing the claims for the young medium.; label: "We Were Writing for Criers, Not for Laughers"
pagenum: 60
title: An interview with Paddy Chayefsky; label: Live from New York, It's "Playhouse 90"
pagenum: 61
title: In the beginning there was Martin Manulis.; label: Making Peace with the 60s
pagenum: 67
title: Arthur Penn told it like it was with "Bonnie and Clyde;" he ran out of gas with "Missouri Breaks." With a little help from "Four Friends," he hopes to join the new wave of the eighties.; title: Reviews.
label: Books; label: Face the Music and Dance
pagenum: 77
title: "Hollywood Musicals" by Ted Sennett, "The Hollywood Musicals" by Ethan Mordden, and "Genre: The Musical" edited by Rick Altman; label: The Man Who Would Be King
pagenum: 80
title: "Up the Tube: Prime Time TV and the Silverman Years" by Sally Bedell; label: American Film Classified Ads
pagenum: 82; label: AFI Events Around the Country
pagenum: 85; label: Trailers
pagenum: 86
title: A brief look at upcoming films.; title: Pennies from Heaven
label: Is That Entertainment?; title: Whose Life Is It Anyway?
label: Suicide Made Painless; title: Modern Problems
label: New Chevy [Chase]; title: Buddy Buddy
label: [Billy] Wilder Comedy; title: Reds
label: Lenin Can Wait; title: Taps
label: Up Against the Wall, Sir!; label: From the Director
pagenum: 88
title: Those Hardy Perennial Film Festivals; label: Notable Advertisements; title: T-120 videotapes (inner cover)
label: Memorex; label: The Fireside Theatre Book Club
pagenum: 1
title: Broadway books.; label: JVC
pagenum: 3
title: Vidstar HR-7300 VCR; label: Columbia Pictures Industries
pagenum: 4
title: "Absence of Malice" coming for Christmas; label: MCA Videocassettes
pagenum: 12
title: We can take you out of this world and bring you back in again. ("The Wiz, "MacArthur," "Going My Way," "Holiday Inn"); label: Kodak
pagenum: 18-19
title: featuring cinematographer Nestor Almendross; label: Magnavox
pagenum: 21
title: Magnavision laser videodisc player; title: L-380 Beta videocassette
label: Sony; label: Columbia Pictures Home Entertainment
pagenum: 44-45
title: Best-Selling videocassettes start with great movies! ("Kramer vs. Kramer"); label: MCA Videocassette, Inc.
pagenum: 49
title: "The Four Seasons" on videocassette; label: Advertisement
pagenum: 68
title: TheaterVision television; label: Walt Disney Home Video
pagenum: 23
title: "A Walt Disney Christmas" on videocassette (with free plush Mickey Mouse); title: Cartoon Classics
pagenum: 72; title: The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
pagenum: 74; title: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
pagenum: 75; title: The Black Hole
pagenum: 76; title: Old Yeller
pagenum: 80; label: The Thinking Cap Company
pagenum: 79
title: "The Yoda Hat"; label: Filmways Pictures, Inc.
pagenum: 87
title: "Four Friends," an Arthur Penn film; title: The Movie Studio Mogul board game (inner back cover)
label: International Marketing Consultants; title: "Drambulie over ice with Clark Gable ("Gone with the Wind" still; outer back cover)
label: Drambulie