American Film, Volume III, Number 6
Subtitle: April 1978
Series: The Journal of the Film and Television Arts
Publisher: American Film Institute
Published: April 1978
Language: eng
Format: Magazine
Number of pages: 80
Copyright date: 1978
Description: Cover features poster art for "Houdini le maître du mystère" (aka "The Master Mystery"), a 15-chapter serial film from 1919 starring Harry Houdini. $1.75 cover price.

Beginning with this issue, the paper stock was switched to a cheaper grade, and the "Dialogue on Film" section is no longer on a cardboard stock as with previous editions.
Table of contents: label: The Editing Room
pagenum: 2; title: Hollis Alpert; label: Comment: Two Cheers for Television!
pagenum: 3
title: Can anyone afford NOT to watch television?; title: Edwin Diamond; label: Letters
pagenum: 5; label: Lehman at Large: Close Encounters of a Quibbling Kind
pagenum: 6
title: Special effects are wondrous to behold, but what about the holes in the script?; title: Ernest Lehman; label: The Magician and the Movies
pagenum: 8
title: Before cinema, there were magicians; they created moving images; they prepared audiences for the magic of the movies. Part I of II.; title: Erik Barnouw; label: Just Don't Show the Blood
pagenum: 14
title: Television's answer to its critics is less overt violence, more covert sex.; title: Robert Sklar; label: Producers and Publishers: The Book Brothers
pagenum: 18
title: Books become movies; movie ideas become books; books become publicity for movies; movies sell books. It's a revolution, and the linkage can have ominous effects.; title: Bruce Cook; label: Growing Up With Gloria Jean
pagenum: 26
title: Andrew Sarris recalls the days when going to the movies was an outing with the family.; title: Andrew Sarris; label: Festival Report: India
pagenum: 32
title: The Indian cinema has Satyajit Ray - and also flying carpets and ten-headed goddesses.; title: Nigel Andrews; label: Dialogue on Film: Sydney Pollack
pagenum: 33
title: How does a director get Barbara Streisand to cry? What does he have to say when the critics attack his "Bobby Deerfield?" The answers to these, and many more.; label: Hitler as Entertainment
pagenum: 50
title: A seven hour film about the führer? It's one of a current rash of West German films about the Third Reich.; title: Nigel Andrews; label: Mankiewicz: The Thinking Man's Director
pagenum: 54
title: The man who created "All About Eve" is now at odds with the Hollywood Establishment.; title: Kenneth Geist; label: AFI News
pagenum: 61; label: About Television: Children's Choice
pagenum: 62
title: The missing ingredients in children's television.; title: Martin Mayer; label: Sound Track: The Filmharmonic
pagenum: 64
title: Why are composers of film music barred from the concert halls?; title: Robert Fiedel; label: Take Two: Roman Holiday
pagenum: 66
title: First of a series, a reassessment of "Roman Holiday."; title: Stanley Kauffmann; label: Explorations: Animation - A Prague Approach
pagenum: 70
title: Neither Disney nor Bakshi, Czech animators have a style all their own.; title: G. William Jones; label: Books
pagenum: 72
title: Reviews; title: "The March of Time, 1935-1951" by Raymond Fielding
label: Sam Kula; title: "The Liveliest Art: A Panoramic History of Movies" by Arthur Knight
label: John Russell Taylor; title: "The Life and Crimes of Errol Flynn" by Lionel Godfrey and "Errol Flynn: A Memoir" by Earl Conrad.
label: Kenneth Turan; title: "Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks" by Booton Herndon and "Doug and Mary" by Gary Carey.
label: Larry Swindell; label: Periodicals
pagenum: 80