American Film, Volume III, Number 5
Subtitle: March 1978
Series: The Journal of the Film and Television Arts
Publisher: American Film Institute
Published: March 1978
Language: eng
Format: Magazine
Number of pages: 80
Copyright date: 1978
Description: Cover photo of Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert in "It Happened One Night." $1.75 cover price.

This is the last issue printed on the original paper stock. Beginning with the April 1978 edition, they switched to a flimsy, glossy paper.
Table of contents: label: The Editing Room
pagenum: 2; title: Hollis Alpert; label: Comment: Measuring Oscar
pagenum: 3
title: After fifty years, how do the winners rate?; title: Richard Schickel; label: Letters
pagenum: 4; label: Lehman at Large: Nobody TRIES To Make a BAD Picture
pagenum: 6
title: Pity the poor Hollywood filmmakers. You think YOU have problems!; title: Ernest Lehman; label: The Sex Comedy Without Sex
pagenum: 8
title: Lovers were comedians in those zany screwball films of the 1930s.; title: Andrew Sarris; label: The Academy At Fifty
pagenum: 16
title: It is much more than a television extravaganza; title: Charles Champlin; label: Who Is the World's Most Successful Director?
pagenum: 21
title: Surprise! It's Robert Stevenson. Who?; title: Patrick McGilligan; label: Focus on Education: The Vorkapich Effect
pagenum: 27
title: Assessing the legacy of the renowned teacher of cinema, Slavko Vorkapich.; title: Vlada Petric; label: Velvet Rides Again
pagenum: 28
title: British writer-director Bryan Forbes updates the old war horse, National Velvet.; title: Bernard Drew; label: Dialogue on Film: Neil Simon
pagenum: 33
title: The country's foremost writer of stage and screen comedies - his current hit is "The Goodbye Girl" - talks about his craft, his old days with Sid Caesar, and the pain behind the comedy.; label: The Network Dropout Dilemma
pagenum: 52
title: Americans are watching less television. The networks look for ways to bring back the viewers.; title: Richard P. Adler; label: Catch a Rising Star
pagenum: 58
title: It's a rough road to stardom in today's Hollywood: Two case histories of breaking in.; title: Stephen Zito; label: AFI News
pagenum: 65; label: Festival Report: San Francisco
pagenum: 67
title: America's oldest film festival has become a crash course in film trends.; title: Grover Sales; label: Sound Track: Hollywood's Jazz
pagenum: 69
title: Directors once used jazz to signify evil: they also used it to extend the range of film. Here's how.; title: Jonathan Rosenbaum; label: About Television: Dance of the Hours
pagenum: 72
title: A short history of how a canny use of "promo" spots made ABC number one in television.; title: Martin Mayer; label: Books
pagenum: 74
title: Reviews; title: "The New York Times Encyclopedia of Television" by Les Brown.
label: James Monaco; title: "Television: The First Fifty Years" by Jeff Greenfield and "TV Book: The Ultimate Television Book" by Judy Fireman.
label: Erik Barnouw; title: "Reel Facts: The Movie Book of Records" by Cobbett Steinberg
label: Stanley Kauffmann; label: Periodicals
pagenum: 80