American Film, Volume IV, Number 7
Subtitle: May 1979
Series: Magazine of the Film and Television Arts
Publisher: American Film Institute
Published: May 1979
Place of publication: New York, NY, USA
Language: eng
Format: Magazine
Number of pages: 80
Copyright date: 1979
Description: Cover photo of Robert Redford and Willie Nelson in "The Electric Horsemen." $1.75 cover price.

Although advertisements for videotapes had been around for several years, this is the first issue to boast a full-color video ad for "The Sound of Music" from The Video Club of America on the inside of the front cover.

Color spreads for "The Electric Horsemen," the Watergate TV mini-series "Blind Ambition," and an article with experimental filmmaker Hollis Frampton.
Table of contents: label: Advertisement
pagenum: 2
title: A Little Romance (Warner Bros.); label: The Editing Room
pagenum: 4; title: Hollis Alpert; label: Letters
pagenum: 6; label: Point of View: Is All the News Fit to Save?
pagenum: 8
title: The uses and misuses of television archives.; title: Joel Swerdlow; label: Lehman at Large:The Star System
pagenum: 10
title: "Control tower, this is Superman II."; title: Ernest Lehman; label: About Television: Apology for Prince Edward
pagenum: 12
title: A royal comeuppance for network television.; title: Martin Mayer; label: Comes a Horseman to Las Vegas
pagenum: 16
title: "The Electric Horseman" began as satire. Along the way it turned into a romantic comedy. It's now a Christmas package with Robert Redford and Jane Fonda.; title: Stephen M. Silverman; label: Blind Ambition: Television Revists Watergate
pagenum: 22
title: An ambitious miniseries based on John Dean's memoirs.; label: The War Between Writers and Directors, Part 1: The Writers
pagenum: 27
title: For fifty years the battle has raged: Whose movie is it, anyway? On the outcome hang the spoils of Hollywood, power and prestige.; title: Bruce Cook; label: Dialogue on Film: Mario Puzo
pagenum: 33
title: The novelist and screenwriter talks about "Superman," "The Godfather," "and Hollywood - an interview we couldn't refuse.; label: Tracking the Wild Movie
pagenum: 46
title: A Manhattan guide for the adventurous filmgoer.; title: Carrie Rickey & Jonathan Rosenbaum; label: Australian Originals
pagenum: 52
title: Dormant until recently, film down under has leaped to life. Here's what lies behind the Aussie new wave.; title: Diane Jacobs; label: Frampton and the Magellan Metaphor
pagenum: 58
title: Independent filmmaker Hollis Frampton calls his work in progress "Magellan." An apt characterization for Frampton himself - teacher, theorist, wit and incorrigible explorer of cinematic territories.; title: Lucy Fischer; label: Festival Report
pagenum: 64
title: Berlin: new films and old.; title: Harlan Kennedy, Richard Traubner; label: Books
pagenum: 70
title: Reviews.; title: "John Ford" by Andrew Sinclair and "The Non-Western Films of John Ford" by J.A. Place
label: William K. Everson; title: "American History/American Film: Interpreting the Hollywood Image" edited by John E. O'Connor and Martin A. Jackson
label: William Hughes; label: AFI News
pagenum: 75; title: Sue Donoghue; label: Periodicals
pagenum: 80; label: Advertisement
pagenum: inner back cover
title: AFI's Cruise to Alaska with Janet Leigh and Michael York (June 22-30, 1979)