American Film, Volume II, Number 5
Subtitle: March 1977
Series: The Journal of the Film and Television Arts
Publisher: American Film Institute
Published: March 1977
Place of publication: New York, New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Magazine
Number of pages: 80
Copyright date: 1977
Description: Cover photo of Bette Davis. $1.75 cover price.

The Table of Contents is overhauled to enlarge article summaries.
Table of contents: label: Letters
pagenum: 3; label: Comment
pagenum: 4
title: Critical Chauvinism - A complaint of our narrow critics: They've staked out too many areas of ignorance.; label: McMurtry on the Movies
pagenum: 6
title: The Hollywood Novel, The Hollywood Film - Has there ever been a great Hollywood novel? Has there ever been a great FILM about Hollywood?; title: There comes a day for a former Boy Wonder such as John Frankenheimer when he calls someone, announces his name, and the voice on the other end screams, "John WHO?" But not today, for suddenly Frankenheimer is hot again, the guiding light behind a new powerhouse film, Black Sunday, and when John phones, people listen.
label: John Frankenheimer: His Fall and Rise; label: Life Achievement Award - 1977
pagenum: 17
title: The Test of Time: Bette Davis; label: A Toast to Bette Davis!
pagenum: 18
title: The landmark moment in the screen career of the grand and durable lady of film - this year's recipient of AFI's annual award.; label: Whatever Happened to Westbrook Van Voorhis?
pagenum: 25
title: Time has marched on, the stentorian voice of the "March of Time"  is silent, and the newsreel has gone the way of the twenty-five-cent admission. Yet, this now archaic news-movie helped shape the course of television documentary. How does the pop history of the "March of Time" strike us now?; label: The Lost Legacy of Edward R. Murrow
pagenum: 30
title: At CBS News, they still talk about him and his bold attack on Joe McCarthy in the fifties. But Murrow is dead, the pressures are fearful, and TV news has gone another way.; label: Dialogue on Film: Bibi Anderson
pagenum: 33
title: The brilliant star of Ingmar Bergman's "Persona" and "Wild Strawberries" talks about women in the movies, her new film with Steve McQueen, the craft of acting, her favorite films - and, of course, Ingmar Bergman.; label: Nitrate Won't Wait
pagenum: 52
title: Unless saved in time, all films on nitrate stock will crumble to powder or ignite. Many already have. A search and rescue operation has been mounted, and time is short.; label: Electronic Americana
pagenum: 58
title: Wife-swapping, youth crimes, drugs - the standard vices once beloved by the tabloids are now the stuff of prime-time television. A look at the evening titillations on the tube and their preachy underside.; label: Focus on Education
pagenum: 64
title: On My Word of Honor as an Adjunct Professor - What happens when a genteel screenwriter from Hollywood's Golden Age collides with today's aggressive college students?; label: Festival Report
pagenum: 66
title: Aesthetics at Edinburgh, politics in Venice.; label: Sound Track
pagenum: 70
title: And the Beast Goes On - Max Steiner's stylish old score for "King Kong" gets a faithful new recording.; label: AFI News
pagenum: 73; title: Reviews
label: Books; label: Inside Views: Talking Filmmakers
pagenum: 75
title: "Hollywood Directors 1914-1940" by Richard Koszarski and "Directing the Film: Film Directors on Their Art" by Eric Sherman; label: Shooting Directors
pagenum: 76
title: A photographic sampling from Maureen Lambray's "The American Film Directors."; label: Telling All: On Star Autobiographies
pagenum: 78
title: "Intermission: A True Story" by Anne Baxter and "My Side: The Autobiography of Ruth Gordon."; label: Periodicals
pagenum: 80