American Film, Volume IV, Number 3
Subtitle: December 1978-January 1979
Series: The Journal of the Film and Television Arts
Publisher: American Film Institute
Published: December 1978
Language: eng
Format: Magazine
Number of pages: 80
Copyright date: 1978
Description: Front cover photo of producer Pamela Hill. $1.75 cover price.  This is the first issue to feature full-color images on select pages, and the last to boast the subtitle "The Journal of the Film and Television Arts" ("Journal" was switched to "Magazine" with the next issue).

This is the second consecutive issue to feature an advertisement for "Superman: The Movie" on the back cover, and there's also an article about the merchandising of the film.
Table of contents: label: Advertisement
pagenum: 1
title: "The Deer Hunter" Academy Award screening; label: The Editing Room
pagenum: 4; title: Hollis Alpert; label: Comment: How True! How True?
pagenum: 6
title: When movies play fast and loose with history.; title: Guy H. Raner, Jr.; label: Lehman at Large: The Grouch
pagenum: 8
title: She: "Let's go the movies." He: "Agh."; title: Ernest Lehman; label: Letters
pagenum: 10; label: Festival Report
pagenum: 12
title: Utah inaugural; Edinburgh annual.; title: Jack Goodman, Nigel Andrews; label: Network Vérité
pagenum: 18
title: At ABC, executive producer Pamela Hill is the force behind a new cinematic approach to the network documentary.; title: Robert Sklar; label: Stalking the Hamster of Happiness
pagenum: 24
title: Screenwriter Charles Eastman and maverick actor Robert Blake come together on a new film with a whimsical title. For the careers of both, the project can be a turning point.; title: Bruce Cook; label: The Women of "Charleston"
pagenum: 30
title: Behind an ambitious television movie, three women.; label: Dialogue on Film: Alan J. Pakula
pagenum: 33
title: The director-producer talks about "Comes a Horseman," working with Jane Fonda, and some favorite filmmakers.; label: Who's Hot in Hollywood
pagenum: 46
title: The top-drawer names - now - and then.; title: Michael Clark, Thomas Wiener; label: Superman! Supersell!
pagenum: 49
title: In the age of the blockbuster, pushing the merchandise spin-offs is as important as selling the movie. Superman is a super example.; title: Kenneth Turan; label: Where Love Has Gone
pagenum: 54
title: The romantic roles and rules are changing. What do seventies movies have to say about it all? A good deal, it turns out.; title: Diane Jacobs; label: The Talent Hunters
pagenum: 60
title: Want to be in pictures? The first hurdle is the casting director, who wields powerful influence in today's films.; title: Georgia Jeffries; label: About Television: New York Emergency
pagenum: 66
title: How television didn't cope with New York's paper strike; title: Martin Mayer; label: Books
pagenum: 68
title: Reviews; title: "American Silent Film" by William K. Everson
label: Lewis Jacobs; title: "Television and Human Behavior," a Rand Corporation Study
label: Joel Swerdlow; title: "Hitch: The Life and Times of Alfred Hitchcock" by John Russell Taylor
label: Kenneth Turan; title: "No Bed of Roses" by Joan Fontaine
label: Brigitte Weeks; label: AFI News
pagenum: 75; title: edited by Sue Donoghue; label: Periodicals
pagenum: 80