American Film, Volume VII, Number 1
Subtitle: October 1981
Series: Magazine of the Film and Television Arts
Publisher: American Film Institute
Published: October 1981
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Magazine
Number of pages: 88
Copyright date: 1981
Description: $2.00 cover price. Cover photo of Francis Ford Coppola on the set of "One From the Heart" (photo by Nancy Moran).
Table of contents: label: The Editing Room
pagenum: 5; label: Letters
pagenum: 6; label: Newsreel
pagenum: 8
title: Short news blurbs.; title: Bertrand Blier's "Beau-père"
label: Lolita Francaise; title: "Raiders of the Lost Ark" is alleged to be a rip-off of "Ark Wars"
label: Rader vs. Raiders; title: Search for Tomorrow
label: Tomorrow Fund; title: Choose-your-own-adventure television shows
label: Do-It-Yourself Drama; title: David Puttnam and "Chariots of Fire"
label: Britain's One-Man Film Industry; label: Dialogue on Film: Mary Steenbergen
pagenum: 12
title: From The Magic Pan to an Oscar in three little pictures.; title: Developments in programming and technology affecting the home viewer.
label: The Video Scene; label: Cable and the Poor
pagenum: 25
title: Are all viewers created equal?; label: Music to My Eyes
pagenum: 28
title: Cable rocks around the clock on MTV.; title: 34
label: Explorations: Our Movies, Ourselves; label: Meet Me in Las Vegas
pagenum: 38
title: No journey into the heart of darkness this time. Francis Ford Coppola's latest, "One from the Heart," makes love not war. But on its success rides the director's bold plans for an old-fashioned studio in the heart of Hollywood.; label: Sundance
pagenum: 46
title: What happened when Robert Redford brought the Hollywood cattlemen and independent sheepherders together?; label: James Cain in Hollywood: Hack Slays Movie Colony
pagenum: 53
title: The hottest writer in Hollywood spent two decades trying to make it as a screenwriter - and bombed.; title: Pressure Groups and the Media
label: Special Report; label: Why They Fight
pagenum: 57
title: Subjects rights and the first amendment; label: The New Crusades
pagenum: 60
title: How the fundamentalists tied up the network.; label: Rallying Round the Flag
pagenum: 63
title: Norman Lear and the American way.; label: Candice Bergen: Starting Over
pagenum: 67
title: In her latest roles, she is creating a foolish, vulnerable, schizzy persona all her own.; label: Books
pagenum: 71
title: Very Truly Yours, Nunnally Johnson; label: Trailers
pagenum: 79
title: A brief look at upcoming films; title: Looker
label: The Latest Model; title: Paternity
label: Life with Father; title: Halloween II
label: Babysitters Beware; title: Tattoo
label: The Illustrated Woman; title: ...All the Marbles
label: Ladies of the Ring; title: So Fine
label: Look Out Calvins; label: American Film Classified Ads
pagenum: 82; label: AFI Events Around the Country
pagenum: 86; label: From the Director
pagenum: 88
title: An Instant of Insight.; label: Notable Advertisements; title: "See the ends of the Earth. (inner cover)
label: Warner Home Video; label: Movie/Entertainment Book Club
pagenum: 7
title: "David O. Selznick's Hollywood" by Ron Haver; label: PBS
pagenum: 10-11
title: Great Performances: "Live from Lincoln Center," "Johann Strauss' Die Fledermaus," "Brideshead Revisited," "Three Operas of Love from the Heart of Monteverdi," "Dance in America," The Edith Wharton Series," & "Willie Stark."; label: Kodak
pagenum: 18
title: Featuring Fay Kanin (2 pages); label: MCA Videocassettes
pagenum: 23
title: Richard Pryor is "Bustin' Loose" on MCA Videocassettes.; label: Sony
pagenum: 24
title: Andy Warhol gets picture-perfect pictures with Sony Beta tape.; label: Energy Video
pagenum: 27
title: The Channelizer; label: Paramount Pictures Corporation
pagenum: 33
title: "Paternity" opens October 2nd at a theatre near you.; label: TDK
pagenum: 37
title: Videotapes; label: Magnetic Video
pagenum: 44-45
title: Peter O'Toole in The Stunt Man on videocassette; label: MCA Videocassettes
pagenum: 52
title: "Charade," "To Kill a Mockingbird," "Neil Sedaka in Concert," "The Andromeda Strain," "Mission Galactica: The Cylon Attack," "Bustin' Loose"; label: The Nostalgia Merchant
pagenum: 65
title: "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" on video; title: JVC's GX-88 camera and MZ-500 microphone
pagenum: 66; label: Maxell
pagenum: 78
title: Beta tapes; label: Everett Raymond Kinstler, N.A.
pagenum: 85
title: James Cagney lithograph; title: VideoDisc System ("Raging Bull," "Ordinary People," "The Elephant Man," "The Magnificent Seven," "Richard Pryor Live in Concert," "Airplane," "From Russia with Love," "The Godfather," "Urban Cowboy," "The Last Waltz," "The Muppet Movie," "Heaven Can Wait," etc.).
label: RCA