American Film, Volume VI, Number 6
Subtitle: April 1981
Series: Magazine of the Film and Television Arts
Publisher: American Film Institute
Published: April 1981
Place of publication: New York, New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Magazine
Number of pages: 80
Copyright date: 1981
Description: $2.00 cover price. Fred Astaire cover photo; inner back cover features an ad for "The Howling."
Table of contents: label: Ad
pagenum: 2
title: CBS/AFI Tribute to Fred Astaire; label: The Editing Room
pagenum: 4; label: Ad
pagenum: 5
title: Video Club of America (The Fog, Brubaker, They Shoot Horses Don't They?, All That Jazz, Norma Raye, The Omen, Alien); label: Newsreel
pagenum: 6; label: The Duality of [Catherine] Deneuve; title: Science on TV.
label: Bad Scientist; title: "The Perfumed Nightmare"
label: [Francis Ford] Coppola's Filipino Coup; title: A search for early film catalogs.
label: Catalog Call; title: "Whose Life is It Anyway?"
label: [Richard] Dreyfuss Unmoved; label: Letters
pagenum: 9; label: Lehman at Large: The Producer
pagenum: 10
title: Einfeld exuded rugged vitality and prosperous self-assurance. About him was the aura of a man who could handle a $25 million production as easily as he could stir a cup of coffee.; label: Ads
pagenum: 11
title: "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" on home video; title: "Brubaker" on videocassette.
pagenum: 14; title: Developments in programming and technology affecting the home viewer
label: The Video Scene; label: Video Art: Paradoxes and Amusement Parks
pagenum: 17; label: A Guide to Home Video Guides
pagenum: 21; label: Ads
pagenum: 21
title: "Mary Poppins" on Home Videocassette; title: Magnetic Video (featuring "Alien") from Movies Unlimited
pagenum: 22; title: Douglas Fairbanks in "Robin Hood" at the Ohio Theatre
pagenum: 24; label: About Television: ABC's Finest Hour
pagenum: 26
title: Not only the finest thing of its kind ever done on television, but the most impressive example of reportorial initiative since Woodward and Bernstein developed the Watergate story.; label: Ad
pagenum: 29
title: Nostalgia Merchant home videos (And Now the Screaming Starts, The Vault of Horror, Asylum); label: Painting with Light
pagenum: 30
title: Cinematographer Nestor Almendros ("The Last Metro") is suddenly the focus of international acclaim.; label: The Cinematographer as Superstar
pagenum: 34
title: Are cameramen outshining directors?; label: The Magic of Fred Astaire
pagenum: 36
title: A longtime admirer evokes the enduring spell of this year's Life Achievement Award recipient.; label: Alan Alda's New Direction
pagenum: 42
title: With "The Four Seasons," the star of "M*A*S*H" is operating not only in front of the camera but behind it, too.; label: Q: What do [Jack] Benny, [George] Burns, [Johnny Carson] and Bonzo have in common? A: Fred De Cordova
pagenum: 46
title: A profile of the man behind television's greatest comics.; label: The Postman Rings Again
pagenum: 50
title: A new film version of James M. Cain's classic novel reunites two iconoclastic friends - Bob Rafelson and Jack Nicholson.; label: Dialogue on Film: Perry Lafferty
pagenum: 57
title: NBC's head of prime-time programming discusses the hot war among the networks, what makes a series click, and why quality too often doesn't have a chance.; label: Why Do Critics Love Trashy Movies?
pagenum: 65
title: The new critical fashion: pulp, sleazy, lurid and decadent as terms of praise.; title: Reviews
label: Books; label: Bookish Viewer of a Light Medium
pagenum: 72
title: "The Camera Age: Essays on Television" by Michael J. Arlen; label: No Surrender, No Mercy
pagenum: 74
title: "The Quality of Mercy: An Autobiography" by Mercedes McCambridge; label: American Film Classified Ads
pagenum: 78; label: From the Director
pagenum: 80
title: The Record is Vanishing