American Film, Volume VI, Number 7
Subtitle: May 1981
Series: Magazine of the Film and Television Arts
Publisher: American Film Institute
Published: May 1981
Place of publication: New York, New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Magazine
Number of pages: 80
Copyright date: 1981
Description: $2.00 cover price. Cover photo of a disinterested, smoking ticket-taker at a movie theater by Mike Mitchell.
Table of contents: label: Letters
pagenum: 5; label: The Editing Room
pagenum: 6; label: Lehman at Large: If I Say So Myself...
pagenum: 8
title: Call it modesty, call it discretion, call it shame... here it is, the hitherto well-kept secret of how good writing catapulted me into the movie industry a long time ago.; label: Ad
pagenum: 10
title: Magnetic Video (2 pages): Introducing our newest videocassette "9 to 5," an office comedy you'll love; label: Newsreel
pagenum: 12
title: Edouard Molinaro; independent films; David Carradine; Hemingway vs. Hollywood.; title: "La Cage aux folles 2"
label: Molinaro's Guilded Cage; title: Ernest Hemingway
label: Papa Nixes Pix; title: Hodding Carter III on PBS's "Inside Story"
label: Welcome Back, Carter; title: Colorado's Independent Film and Video Distribution Center
label: Getting Air Time; title: KKK getting media coverage.
label: The Selling of the Klan; title: "Americana" with David Carradine
label: There's No Budget Like Low Budget; label: About Television: Can Culture Channels Survive?
pagenum: 14
title: As recently as a year ago nobody could have imagined FIVE companies, all more or less savvy, completing for the custom of the culture vultures.; title: Developments in programming and technology affecting the home viewer
label: The Video Scene; label: Video Documentaries: The New Wave
pagenum: 17
title: Four new works herald a new maturity.; title: 22
label: Mini-Stations for Mini-Audiences; label: Lee Rich: TV's High Roller
pagenum: 26
title: "I know the numbers better than anybody in the business. And nobody's ever had numbers like I've got," boasts the man behind "Dallas," "The Waltons," and "Knots Landing."; label: Whose Film Is It Anyway?
pagenum: 34
title: No area in the film or television industry is as bitterly contested as that of writing credits - and it's up to the Writers Guild to give credit where due.; label: Ad
pagenum: 40
title: MCA Videocassette, Inc. (2 pages): Bedtime for Bonzo, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, Flash Gordon, The Killers, Somewhere in Time, The Island; label: Knight After Knight with George Romero
pagenum: 42
title: The king of low-budget horror has a new film: no zombies, but a traveling Renaissance fair with knights in shining armor- on motorcycles!  Knightriders.; label: Ad
pagenum: 44
title: Warner Home Video: Cries & Whispers, Fellini's Armacord, Small Change; label: The Perils of Moviegoing
pagenum: 46
title: Scratchy prints, floors littered with popcorn and candy wrappers, loud patrons, and rude ushers - that's becoming a typical night at the movies.; label: Ad
pagenum: 53
title: The Nostalgia Merchant videotapes: And Now the Screaming Starts, Asylum, The Vault of Horror; label: In Search of the American Uncle
pagenum: 54
title: Alan Resnais's fascination with things American is one of the most French things about him.; label: Dialogue on Film: Richard Donner
pagenum: 57
title: The director of "The Omen," "Superman" and "Inside Moves" discusses his beginnings in television, the struggle to film an unwanted script, and the trials and joys of working with Marlon Brando.; label: Festival Report: New Delhi's Film Bazaar
pagenum: 65
title: "Movies are not just an aspect of Indian culture," says a director. "Movies ARE Indian culture." As befits so celluloid conscious a nation, the Indian festival was a major cultural event.; title: Reviews
label: Books; label: Book to Film, European Style
pagenum: 73
title: "Modern European Filmmakers and the Art of Adaptation" by Andrew S. Horton and Joan Magretta; label: Short Takes
pagenum: 75
title: "Spaghetti Westerns: Cowboys and Europeans from Karl May to Sergio Leone" by Christopher Frayling; "Movie Facts and Feats: A Guinness Record Book" by Patrick Robertson; and "On the Waterfront: A Screenplay" by Budd Shulberg; label: American Film Classified Ads
pagenum: 78; label: From the Director
pagenum: 80
title: Powerful and pervasive as video is now, it will become more so.