American Film, Volume VI, Number 8
Subtitle: June 1981
Series: Magazine of the Film and Television Arts
Publisher: American Film Institute
Published: June 1981
Place of publication: New York, New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Magazine
Number of pages: 72
Copyright date: 1981
Description: $2.00 cover price. Cover photo of Jon Alpert and Keiko Tsuno.
Table of contents: label: The Editing Room
pagenum: 4; label: Ad
pagenum: 6
title: 2-page spread for MCA Home Video ("Bedtime for Bonzo," "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band," "Flash Gordon," "The Killers," "Somewhere in Time," "The Island"); label: Letters
pagenum: 9; label: Lehman at Large: The Film Critic
pagenum: 10
title: Herman Hauser would go to any lengths to avoid looking himself in the eye, for he loathed movies intensely, and was deeply ashamed to be earning his livelihood reviewing them.; label: Newsreel
pagenum: 14; title: Ida Lupino's "The Hitch-Hiker"
label: Lost Lupino; label: Cable to the Rescue; title: "Raiders of the Lost Ark" and other adventures
label: The Idol Taker; title: "Channels of Communication" magazine
label: Opening Channels; title: "Lights! Action! Africa!"
label: Film's Roots; title: Egomaniacal genius?
label: The Other Side of [Charlie] Chaplin; title: The depictions of businesses on television
label: TV Bad for Business?; label: About Television: Rush to Judgement
pagenum: 17
title: The scoop syndrome, almost entirely absent from coverage of the Kennedy tragedy, reasserted itself this time around.; label: Boston: A New Hub for Filmmakers
pagenum: 20
title: A spirit of independence and a sense of tradition bind the growing film community along the Charles River.; label: Memories of a Texas Childhood
pagenum: 25
title: Austin screenwriter Bill Wittliff succesfully evokes the people and places he knows best.; label: Dialogue on Film: Richard Rush
pagenum: 33
title: The director of "The Stunt Man" discusses his 9-year struggle to make the film, his low-budget days, the art of screenwriting, and Peter O'Toole.; label: The Real Crisis in American Films
pagenum: 41
title: Movies are both a business and - in the right hands - a means of heightening our senses of ourselves. Once again, these contrary forces are clashing. Perhaps, says this observer, for the last time.; label: Ray Harryhausen: Monsters Great and Small
pagenum: 46
title: The master of three-dimensional animation, who created the dueling skeletons in "The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad" and the dinosaurs of "One Million B.C.," has looked to the heavens for inspiration on his latest film, "Clash of the Titans."; label: Jon Alpert's Video Journalism: Talking to the People
pagenum: 54
title: His news-making documentaries have been shown on PBS and the "Today" show, but he has managed to stay close to his roots as a community organizer and fiercely independent videomaker.; title: Reviews.
label: Books; label: The World According to TV Guide
pagenum: 60
title: "Television Today: A Close-Up View. Readings from TV Guide" edited by Barry Cole; label: Hollywood's Greatest Decade?
pagenum: 63
title: "From Scarface to Scarlett: American Films in the 1930s" by Roger Dooley; label: AFI Events Around the Country
pagenum: 69; label: American Film Classified Ads
pagenum: 70; label: From the Director
pagenum: 72
title: New Film Families