American Film, Volume IV, Number 10
Subtitle: September 1979
Series: Magazine of the Film and Television Arts
Publisher: American Film Institute
Published: September 1979
Place of publication: New York, New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Magazine
Number of pages: 80
Copyright date: 1979
Description: Cover photo of Peter Ellenshaw. Back cover features an ad for "Apocalypse Now." $1.75 cover price.
Table of contents: label: The Editing Room
pagenum: 4; label: Comment: Woody Allen, Neighborhood Filmmaker
pagenum: 6
title: Will the Stix nix "Manhattan?"; label: Letters
pagenum: 8; label: Lehman at Large
pagenum: 12
title: The unfortunate case of the canceled column.; label: Festival Report
pagenum: 14
title: New York 16mm.; label: Focus on Education
pagenum: 16
title: Getting personal in Milwaukee.; label: The Remarkable Visions of Peter Ellenshaw
pagenum: 18
title: An encounter with a mysterious "Black Hole" deep in space forms the basis of Disney's most ambitious film. To visualize the unseeable, the studio has called one of the screen's masters of visual effects.; label: TV's Fall Offensive: The Tent-Pole Strategy
pagenum: 26
title: As the new season begins, the networks' abiding maxim is: To be less than No. 1 is to be a loser. To reach the ratings peaks, the new shows are built around a strong center.; label: About Television
pagenum: 32
title: ABC's Thomopoulos: Looking Out for No. 1; label: What Can Television Teach?
pagenum: 35
title: Responsible thinkers like Mortimer Adler, Daniel J. Boorstin, and Frank Stanton have weighed the question. From their spirited exchange, a teacher draws some conclusions.; label: Dialogue on Film: Joseph E. Levine
pagenum: 39
title: The redoubtable producer talks about the films, the stars, and the directors of an extraordinary; label: The Greatest Movies Never Made
pagenum: 49
title: A search through the studios' dusty shelves turns up some unexpected screenplays of distinction. Will they ever be filmed?; label: Zoetrope and "Apocalypse Now"
pagenum: 55
title: A small San Francisco-based production company is behind the year's most expensive film. Zoetrope's beleaguered first decade foreshadows a new beginning.; label: Recycling Jerry Lewis
pagenum: 62
title: After a decade's absence from the screen, the irrepressible clown is directing his return in "Hardly Working."; label: Books
pagenum: 68
title: Reviews.; title: "Tinsel" by William Goldman and "Blue Pages" by Eleanor Perry; title: "Notes" by Eleanor Coppola; label: AFI News
pagenum: 75; label: Periodicals
pagenum: 80