American Film, Volume 1, Number 3
Subtitle: December 1975
Series: The Journal of the Film and Television Arts
Publisher: American Film Institute
Published: December 1975
Place of publication: New York, New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Magazine
Number of pages: 80
Copyright date: December 1975
Description: $1.50 cover price. Cover features a behind-the-scenes photo of George Grizzard (John Adams) and Albert Stratton (Thomas Jefferson) on the set of the PBS series "The Adams Chronicles;" printed on reverse is a Kodak ad featuring an interview with director Rollin Binzer. The 8-page "Dialogue on Film" Q&A midsection with writer/director Robert Towne is printed on charcoal-colored paper.
Table of contents: title: Telluride, A Lively Ghost Town
label: Festival Report; title: The Deadline Syndrome
label: McMurtry on the Movies; title: Behind "The Adams Chronicles," an expensive but worthy bicentennial gift to the nation.
label: Pubic Television's Big Splash; title: From Griffith on, the eminent Victorian has captivated film directors and the public. The collected film works reassessed.
label: A Dickens Garland; title: An introduction to Psychoanalysis of the Medium
label: Television as Dream; title: Not only the year of Gone with the Wind
label: 1939: A Very Good Year; title: The director speaks of the radical changes to "Chinatown," his works as a script-doctor on films like "Bonnie & Clyde" and "The Godfather," the evolution of "The Last Detail" and "Shampoo," plus more.
label: Dialogue on Film: Robert Towne; title: Or "The Amazing Colossal Man" and Other Animations.
label: The Yellow Ball Workshop: Where Children Create Films; title: The place has a new trend - itself! The Babylon of the West is being revisited by every filmmaker in town. Why?
label: The Glory That Was Hollywood; title: Part II: Rise from Woodstock to Stardust, the Parade's gone by. Part 2 of 2.
label: The Rise and Fall of the Rock Film; title: The fuse may now be lit for the long-awaited communication explosion.
label: Explorations: Satellite Entertainment; label: Member News; title: The Deadliest Art
label: Focus on Education; title: Reviews.
label: Books; title: "The Silent Clowns" by Walter Kerr
label: The Flash of Recognition; title: "Kings of the Bs" edited by Tom McCarthy and Charles Flynn
label: The Bottom of the Bill; title: "Women in Focus" by Jeanne Betancourt and "Women Who Make Movies" by Sharon Smith
label: Consciousness Rising: On the Female Filmmaker; title: Recent writings of note on film and television.
label: Periodicals