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|| | | || Inside Moves: Cutaway view of Canon's E70 8mm camcorder shows the complexity of current designs. strobe feature re- have become effectively creating time- cords tiny bursts of action for a increasingly prevalent in all lapse sequences. The model’s remote con- pulsating effect much like that of a formats. Flying erase heads effectively trol also operates as a character generator, strobe light in a disco. Combination mode eliminate visual noise in the videotape dur- superimposing titles, times and dates superimposes a digitally-stored image in ing scene breaks and transitions, creating onscreen while shooting. Canon’s E708 any of six image areas over a live scene. clean, natural-looking cuts. S-VHS models 8mm camcorder, meanwhilei , i_ ncludes a || Three varieties of wipe are available on from Canon, Magnavox, Mitsubishi, Olym- built-in titler that adds titles of up to two the Chinon CV-T70 EZ Movie/Digital VHS pus, Panasonic and Quasar all feature flying 16-character lines on any scene. camcorder, which can also mix still frames erase heads, as do VHS camcorders from with moving footage. and has a strobe fea- Chinon, GE, JVC, Panasonic and Quasar. The VHS Index Search System (VISS) ture. Besides these digital highlights the Other editing devices, such as fade-in/ is yet another editing/access convenience Chinon includes an edit switch, audio/video fade-out and audio and video dubbing that has made its way from the table top to dubbing, date/time recording, fade-in/fade- switches, are also becoming common- the shoulder. Offered on many new out and a flying erase head. camcorders—including the Sharp VL- place. The Sony CCD-V9 8mm Handycam C77UA S-VHS-C—VISS allows users to Eight-millimeter camcorders were the Pro features a unique +/- rocker that can tab scene changes, then automatically ad- first to sport flying erase heads but, with be used to review the last few seconds of vance or rewind a tape to those points at the advent of S-VHS camcorders, they any take and make glitch-free insert edits. any time. The Panasonic PV-S150 S-VHS- Toshiba’s SK-S80 S-VHS Toshiba offers C camcorder offers address search as well. | MLOESRSILLO interval recording, which automatically This places signals on the control track at | records one second of tape every minute, one-minute intervals. The signals help the viewer locate cuts using the camcorder on any compatible VCR. MAY 1988 VIDEO 51

CAMCORDERS ‘88 SPEED DEMONS Canon $1,800 8MM 2 sp SP eE70e8 $1,599 8MM 4 SP ventiR:oanpaildly1/m6o0v-isnegconobdjecsthsutstheort at the con- Cameorder E70 speed ap- Ganon SP,SLP pear blurred when played back with special : F1000S sp G( Chinon effects like slow motion or freeze frame. C8-SC70 SP,SLP lll e Chinon SP Professional still photographers adjust CVvC600 $2,400 S-VHS -3 SP shutter speed to capture clear pictures of ed $1,995 8MM > sp ei : N fast-moving subjects and armchair Spiel- ECH.aS : VHS-C 4 SP SLP 2 oe ° bergs can do the same. Even a still frame of VEmCeArMs1s4 $1,895 N Dwight Gooden’s fastball will look crystal 3 oP clear when shot with a high-speed shutter. Fisher $1,995 VHS SP FVC-801° 8 06¢ ON SP Over the last year dozens of manufac- GE. $1,750 8MM turers have introduced camcorders with 9-9710 3 SP SP G.E. vaasroinaibclePV-hiSg3h5-0speoeffdersshautctheorisc.e oTfhe1/10P0a0n,- 9s-h9a8c0h6i Sie? vHSC 4. 0N ae SP_EP 1/500 or 1/250 of a second speeds, while VM-3100A 1.500 oe Chinon’s C8-SC70 Pocket 8 records at 1/ VHS-C y Hitachi $1,300 1000 or 1/500 of a second. VM-5000A SP,EP All of the above doesn’t make much Hitachi VM-6000A N difference if a picture isn’t in focus. JVC $1,399 VHS-C 4 SP SP,LP GF-S1000HU $999 VHS 4 SP SPSLP Out-of-focus close-u ps are common, as are SP,SLP off-target camera blurs. Besides, most a casi) SP,EP autofocus systems, good as they are, don’t | . aie VHS a N 1700 ¢. 4 Sp necessarily give a home director enough oe a say in the proceedings—allowing him or ‘), akg 4 SP.EP oe $2,495 VHS her, for example, to focus on an element 2N 3 Abra that may be off-center. $1,995 SVHS-C 2. SPEP Chinon calls the focus array on its Hes Bite 02 =2N Pocket 8 the “Multi-State-Auto-Focus se Sta 3 SP,LP peer 8 SP,SLP system,” which means that the focal zone $1495 VHScC 4. SP,SLP NEC 4 SP,EP Key To Rage ears v-40 $1,149 vHS-C Chart $1,795 8MM oer $1,999 SVHS-C $2,199 S-VHS pee $1,600 S-VHS-C RVFu: pee i ek $1,859 VHS 4 SP.EP HJ: headphone jack LTS: linear track N: not present ; akc fa ae$1,750 8MM2 SE SGPS inteNA: not available PRHearts $2,500 SVHS 4 N SP.SLP | $1,950 SVHS 8 N SP,SLP RTC: real time ais | counter trea g;g Ue N || TleTnLs: through the oS : $2,000 VHS 2 SP.SLP Y | VSAe:arcVhideSoysAtdedmress Panasonic | VI: Video Index PV-330 | Search System | 1. All camcorders record and play back linear track sound monaurally Y: yes, feature Present 52 VIDEO MAY 1988

SP 1/2\" CCD {/2.4 7 lux EVE FE; RIC SP 1/2\" CCD EVF Fe eis 1/2\" CCD 11.9 7 lux EVF BE, ATC SP 1/2\" CCD EVF AD, FE VIVA 1/2\" CCD 8-80 f/1.4 10 lux EVF RTC aBgSgeEesern NIN. 1/2\" CCD 9-54 EVF FE, RIC N/N VIVA 1/2\" CCD 9-54 f/1.2 7 lux A/BLC EVE AD, AR, FE SP NIN VINA 1/2\" CCD 8.5-68 TT YIY 1/2\" CCD 9-54 f/1.2 7 lux A/BLC EVF FE, HJ, LTS 42<22 N/N 1/2\" CCD EVF VLy. 1/2\" CCD 10-30 f/1.2 7 lux PA A/BLC EVF FE Hd n ma)i vu N/N 2/3\" MOS EVF = N/N 2/3\" MOS 9-54 f/1.2 7 lux CA A/BLC EVF AD, RTC NI, 2/3\" MOS NA EVF HJ SP, EP NIN, 2/3\" CCD NA {/1.7 12 lux PA A/BLC EVE. AD, FE SP,EP YLY, 1/2\" CCD NA EVF RTC SPEP NUN, 1/2\" CCD 11-88 f/1.6 9 lux CA A/BLC EVF SP NY, 1/2\" MOS 22 TT FEV RTC N/N 1/2\" CCD 9-54 f/1.2 7 lux PA A/BLC EVF Fe SP, SLP N/N 1/2\" CCD 9-54 {/1.2 7 lux CA A EVE AR, FE, HJ N NIN 22=°422 1/2\" CCD 9-27 {/1.6 7 lux PA A/M EVE FE YIY VIVA 1/2\" CCD 9-54 f/1.2 7 lux CA AIM EVE AD, RTC SP NIN: VIVA 1/2\" CCD NA {/1.2 10 lux PA A EVF AD, RTC NIN, VIVA 1/2\" CCD NA EVE FE NIN, N 2/3\" CCD NA /1.4 8 lux A A/BLC EVE FE, HJ IY N 1/2\" CCD 9-54 EVF FE, HJ, RTC MIT, N 1/2\" CCD 9-54 f/1.4 10 lux PA A/M/BLC EVF fade, FE, N/N N NA EVE: high-speed shutter NIN, VIVA CCD 9-54 {/1.4 10 lux CA A/BLC EVE digital F/X, FE Y/Y VIVA 1/2\" CCD 8.5-68 EVF digital F/X, FE N/N VIVA 1/2\" CCD NA {1.7 10 lux A A/BLC high-speed shutter ePIa S2#“=e©=~2=S4~s=©S~& NeITY VIVA 8.5-51 {/1.4 7 \\ux CA A 8.5-68 f/1.2 7 lux CA A/BLC 1.2 7 lux CA A/BLC f/1.2 10 lux PA f/1.2 10 lux CA tie 10 lux CA f/1.2 7 lux PA A f/1.2 7 lux CA A/M/BLC f/1.2 1+ lux CA A/BLC NA 7 lux A A NA 7 lux A A/BLC f/1.2 1 lux A A and include autofocus lenses unless noted otherwise under Special Features. 2. In millimeters. 3. Manual focus only. MAY 1988 VIDEO 53

1C9an8c8orige penal isan Gyn a BE eee SPSLP ¥ ¥ NIN N VIVA P oe ee N Y Y¥ WN N VIVA Guide Siew $1,500 VHS 4 SPSLP SP.SLP N N YY NIN N VIVA || VM.22AC $1,999 S-VHS 4 SP,LP,EP SP,LP,EP N NY YY NA VIVA viet $999 VHS-C 2N N N N N_- NIN N VIVA coe $1799 SVHS-C 6 SPSLP SP,SLP N Y Y Wy N VIVA RPCeAe) as$1,799 8MM 2 oN N N NOY. YY Y. VIVA N N N_ NN N N poacimnt $1.249 VHS 4 SP SP N NN NN UN N el $1249 VHSC 4 N SP.SLP N N NN. N/N N N ore $1,300 8MM 3 ON y x NN NN Y N | a cea A $1599 VHSC 2 N SP,EP™ N NY YIN N N ee ia |Mee Sse 2 ON SP.EP N Y oN YIN N N Deh $1,799 VHS 2N SP N N oY YY N VIVA | N | ccna NA 8MM 2N SP.EP N N N NN Y N epiins $1,996 SVHSC 4 N N Y NYY NN Loh: $2,850 VHS-C 4N SP.EP N N N_ N/N N N VM 6t75 NA VHS-C 4 oN N Chart by Martin : VM 6300 NA VHS-C 4N SP.EP N N N_ NN N N ie ae nee vm7100 $1,795 VHS 4 SPER SP,EP N N N_ N/N N N SPEP N N__ Y/N XY N ! accurately captures rapid motion and small | narrow area, the system automatically enhancement” chip to achieve crisp, dis- tinct borders and sharp black-to-white con- objects in wide scenes. The focal zone indi- switches to a wider area. Rapidly moving trasts. It also offers a unique dual exposure metering system that takes “average” or cator also flashes a warning if the subject is subjects stay in clear focus. “center-field” readings, allowing a user to select the optimum exposure in any light- out of focus during a zoom. An auto-assist Nikon’s new VN-810 8mm camcorder ing situation. Center-field metering, ac- cording to Canon, “prevents washout or button gives you one-shot autofocus while features two autofocus zones, one large underexposure in difficult lighting condi- tions.” in manual. and one small. An outline appears in the DESIGNS FOR TAPING Minolta’s Master Series-C 3400 VHS- viewfinder, showing the area of the select- The E708 has also been designed for C camcorder features a unique multi- ed zone. The large zone is for shooting greater comfort. The chassis is relatively streamlined and fits more easily dimensional autofocus system. This moving objects, panning and tilting, while in the hand than most camcorders. The VCR controls are on the surface where the through-the-lens system requires no in- the smaller zone is for detailed subjects. tape bay opens, for easier use as a home deck. The unit is precisely balanced for frared transmitter or receiver because NEC’s V-50U camcorder boasts a focus is determined by the image on the piezo-electric autofocus system that is | lens. The zoom lens allows continuous faster on the draw than infrared focusing focusing from its surface to infinity. In nor- systems. Its lens spots an object in its field mal operation, when the contrast of the of view, instantly reads the amount of light subject in the center of the image is high available with a dedicated microchip, then enough for focusing, the system focuses on makes the necessary focal adjustments. a narrow area. If the central contrast is too Canon’s E708 offers an “auto knee cir- low, or if the subject moves out of the | cuit” to improve image depth and an “edge 54 VIDEO MAY 1988

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BY STAN PINKWAS may spell an end to passive viewing. How will videophiles want TVs to look asked the country’s industrial de- ple, fea- in the near future? Pop satirist Philip sign students to do just that, to cre- Garner has imagined many such sets. ate “a TV of the future.” Their re- p tures a One design marries a tiny TV with a sponses ranged from the cool pa- tiny camera for a hand-held video van- nache of Postmodernism to the hot 27-inch ity mirror. Another, using a flat plumage of Memphis-school furni- screen, nestles inside the lid of a TV ture. On the pages of nearly 150 monitor dinner for the ultimate in portability. Of course, the TV’s as disposable as entries, TVs stalked through living \" with detacha- the dinner tray. rooms atop cloven legs or modestly soaked up operating power be- ble speakers Neither is as far-fetched as Garner neath solar-paneled roofs. would have us believe. Although the » and a_ pyramidal first TVs were housed in wood-pan- Mobility and flexi- eled consoles inspired by the era’s bility were dominant ® rear. It rests on tri- bulky radios, TVs quickly acquired entry themes. Lori streamlining, portability and lighter Eickenmeyer Ap- ’ angular shelves and an cabinets. Today’s materials further lib- thorp’s third- erate TV design from the constraints place winner, invisible turntable. The of simpler technology. The real test for exam- for contemporary TV design, howev- shelf panels, which snap in er, is to devise shapes that deepen and out, have different colors the viewing experience while capturing the vitality of cut- on each side so viewers can ting-edge trends. vary their sets’ appearance as In a contest dubbed Design-A-Vision, Sony they wish. “TVs shouldn’t just stand in a room like machines you’d rather hide,’ says Apthorp, explain- ing her mix-and-match approach. Top prize winners for the com- petition’s two categories are Brian Addison Elliott and Rus- ty Snell. The designs each earned their creators $5,000 scholarships, trips to Tokyo and XBR-Pro TV systems. I] ie 56 VIDEO MAY 1988

Walk Like a Man: Brian Addison Elliott's two-foot high Animan, partly inspired by ED- 201 in ‘RoboCop,’ sways to the rhythms of music videos or mimics household life if its sen- sors perceive an in- truder. Red Sunshine: Pyramid Power: Rusty Snell's Walkman- Lori Eickemeyer sized Solarman features Apthorp’s 27-inch a panel that tilts up and Memphis-style TV rests down and swivels so on a triangular stand viewers can watch the with removable plastic screen while pointing panels that come in a the solar cells in the di- variety of colors rection of the strongest sunlight. Twist and Shout: | Deniz Daldal’s 27-inch TV tilts or swivels in re- sponse to instructions from the remote, but its true emphasis is audio: the base houses three speakers and a heat sink for an amplifier. MAY 1988 VIDEO 57

BYSANDRA HANSEN KONTE. T LAST HURRAH In 1957, Irwin Allen—later to find fame as The aging trio (Chico was over 70) Grant, Fred Astaire and John Huston the producer of, among other epics, The practically stumble through their roles, ap- —and cult stars like Divine—call to Towering Inferno and The Poseidon Adven- pearing in leaden vignettes that have little mind other performers’ last roles. On ture—made his first disaster film. That is, a in common with their brilliant 30s come- the one hand we have Network (1976), disaster for the Marx Brothers: their last, dies. In a typically hilarious moment, New- in which Peter Finch creates such a moving and worst film together. The Story ofMan- ton discovers gravity when a treeload of portrait of deranged TV anchorman How- kind was Allen’s attempt to jazz up the apples falls on his head. ard Beale that at least one line of his dia- history of civilization by casting unortho- logue, “I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to | dox stars as the world’s leading movers Film critics Harry and Michael Med- take it anymore, ” has become an American and shakers. Groucho, with cigar and leer, ved called the film “a small, sad blot plays Peter Minuit, the colonist who on otherwise brilliant careers.” It may catch phrase. bought Manhattan from the Indians. Harpo be deservedly forgotten, but it is a Then there are films like The Thing is Isaac Newton, “father” of gravity. Chi- prime example of what seems a rule co, complete with bogus Italian accent, for final appearances of major stars: with Two Heads (1972), featuring Oscar portrays a monk who counsels Christopher when they’re good, they’re very good, winner Ray Milland as a mad scientist who Columbus. but when they’re bad, they’re the pits. gets hooked up, literally, with former foot- ball star Rosey Grier after an experiment Recent deaths of greats like Cary goes awry. Or Joan Crawford’s final ven- Filmdom's famous and forgotten farewells

Curtain Calls: ture, Trog (1970), an inept science fiction everyone else on camera.) James Dean in ‘Giant’ film about a modern day Neanderthal, (below), Peter Finch in made on such a low budget that Crawford’s In the film, the 24-year-old Dean ages ‘Network’ (above) and biographer, Bob Thomas, claims the for- to about 60, and he’s actually better and mer movie queen didn’t even have a dress- more interesting as the older oil baron than Spencer Tracy in ing room. Between shots, “Joan huddled in as his younger, rather weasely counter- ‘Guess Who's Coming a car parked on an English moor.” But, part. Dean died in a car crash before he to Dinner.’ Thomas points out poignantly, Crawford’s could redub some of his mumbled dialogue, plight was that of most aging film stars. so portions of his key speeches at the end “She did not complain...She wanted to act. of the film were recorded by Nick Adams. It was her life.” The Misfits (1961) is not generally con- CROWN JEWELS sidered a great movie (in The Filmgoer’s Before this gets too depressing, let’s Companion, Leslie Halliwell calls it “a pseudo-highbrow non-moneymaker’’) but look at some last efforts of Hollywood this modern-day Western offers the kings and queens that more than justify chance to catch both Marilyn Monroe and their lofty positions. For those wondering Clark Gable in their last film. Both are why the popularity of comedienne Carole terrific—she as a lonely divorcee, he as an Lombard has endured, forget the excruci- over-the-hill cowboy. Gable is particularly ating screen biography, Gable and Lom- fine. Watch the scene where, reduced to bard. Her last performance, in Ernst capturing wild horses for dog food, he Lubitsch’s 1942 comedy, To Be or Not to weeps when he realizes his grown children Be, is a delight. The comedy concerns a have snubbed him on the street. It proves group of Polish actors, led by Lombard and what an underrated actor Gable really was. husband (played by Jack Benny), who man- age to outwit the Nazis then occupying Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (1966) Warsaw. Lombard is brilliant throughout, was never much of a movie, either. Al- whether flirting with an infatuated Air though it professed to be the first film to Force officer (Robert Stack), vamping a deal positively and realistically with in- similarly besotted Nazi (Sig Ruman) or ter-racial relationships, the prospective treating Benny’s acting pretensions with son-in-law (Sidney Poitier) happens to be a conspiratorial good humor. . Watch Lom- brilliant, wealthy, award-winning, inter- bard’s face light up with mischief when she nationally famous scientist. But as the tells the press of her ham husband’s aspira- bride’s bemused father, Spencer Tracy tions. (“He wants to play Hamlet. He gives one of his finest performances. He wants to play Hamlet.”) You'll understand looks ill and haggard most of the time (he why she has bewitched fans for three gen- died two weeks after the filming ended), erations. but his rapport with longtime co-star Katharine Hepburn remains magical. His Although some of James Dean’s work line, “If you love each other half as much as now seems a dated impersonation of Bran- we did, that is everything,” is certain to do, his final performance, as Jett Rink in bring a tear to eyes that are wincing at the Giant (1956), is well worth seeing, if only film’s endless repetitions of the song “The to watch Dean doggedly pursue method Glory of Love.” acting while Elizabeth Taylor and Rock Hudson emote their heads off. (Some of his Hepburn also co-starred in Henry Fon- tricks must have driven his co-stars crazy. da’s final film, On Golden Pond (1981). In one scene, he distractingly fingers a Fonda is wonderful as octogenarian Nor- man Thayer, who faces increasing feeble- lariat, effectively managing to upstage ness with depression and dread. His per- formance offsets some of the film’s weak- MAY 1988 VIDEO 59

nesses: a dud performance by Jane Fonda Fonda Farewell: A Countess from Hong Kong (1966) is a as their rebellious daughter and some tru- Henry Fonda performs happy reminder of his silent days. It’s also ly execrable dialogue by screenwriter Er- one last rescue in about the only joyous thing about this flat nest Thompson. (The line, “Let’s suck ‘On Golden Pond.’ comedy. Except for the director’s brief face” comes painfully to mind. ) glorious appearance, the rest of the film is, I Could Go on Singing (1963), Judy well, not funny. Star Marlon Brando has HIDDEN GEMS Garland’s last film, is a turgid soap opera, said, “Chaplin was a man of sizable talent, but worthwhile, if only for the electrifying and I wasn’t going to argue with him about Some other, less well known curtain concert sequence at the end. After 80 min- what’s funny and what’s not funny.” utes of off-again, on-again romance with calls: ; ex-husband Dirk Bogarde, it’s a pleasure Al Jolson also has a final moment of to see Garland on stage, bringing the audi- little-known glory. Technically, his last film Judy Holliday’s farewell film, the mu- ence to its feet with the title song. was 1945’s Rhapsody in Blue. But the not- ed ham couldn't bear the fact that he wasn’t sical Bells Are Ringing (1960), has not And if you’re willing to sit through two allowed to play himself in The Jolson Story hours and 20 mintues of George Stevens’ (1946) and, in a sequence near the film’s aged well. The plot—with Holliday as an everlasting The Greatest Story Ever Told end, when Larry Parks is singing (1965), you'll be rewarded by the last per- “Swanee,” you can spot the real Al strut- answering service operator who can’t help formance of the great Claude Rains. In a ting his stuff in the long shots. five-minute appearance as Herod the interfering in her clients’ lives—is amus- Great, he’s by far the best thing about this In her final film, Ethel Merman gets $20 million warhorse. (Although centurion one more chance to belt out “Everything’s ing. But the subplot, in which police mis- John Wayne intoning, “This truly wuz the Coming Up Roses”—not in a musical, but son of God,” and leper Shelley Winters the 1980 farce Aiyplane!, in a bit part as a take the business for a bordello, is predict- screaming, “I’m cuoyed! I’m cuoyed!” run male mental patient who thinks he’s Ethel a close second.) Merman. able and dull, as is her co-star, a wooden BIZARRE BANGLES More poignant is the 1983 comedy, Dean Martin. The film does offer a chance Turning from the sublime to the Trail of the Pink Panther, a quickie compi- lation of highlights from the popular film to see Holliday recreate her classic Broad- downright strange: series. It’s the last film to feature David Jean Harlow died during the shooting Niven (so ill his voice had to be dubbed by way performance, singing standards like Rich Little), and consists largely of clips of of Saratoga (1937), a racetrack comedy Peter Sellers (who had died the previous “The Party’s Over” and “Just in Time” ina with Clark Gable. A double was used to year) in his early appearances as Inspector complete her final shots. The stand-in is Clouseau. As Allen Bren of the London wispy but charming voice. (She also man- laughably obvious, supposedly fooling us by either wearing a big hat or holding her }4 ages to milk laughs out of some very old hand over her eyes. Skull Session: Natalie Wood's final film was the gags, like putting on lipstick before talk- Robert Walker died during the filming disappointing ‘Brainstorm,’ with Cliff Robertson. of an unintentionally hilarious anti-Commu- ing to her boyfriend on the telephone. ) The nist diatribe called My Son John (1951), which understandably has never been re- best scene in Bells Are Ringing has Holli- leased on videocassette. Not to worry: ina desperate move, director Leo McCarey day alone, belting out the show-stopping loaded My Son John with footage from Walker’s penultimate film, Hitchcock’s “Y’m Going Back (To Work at the Bonjour Stranger on a Train. Tristesse Brassiere Company)” with all On the lighter side, Charles Chaplin’s unbilled appearance as a seasick steward in the zest and joy the rest of the movie lacks. Billy Wilder’s Witness for the Prosecu- tion (1957) is notable mostly for Charles Laughton’s Oscar-nominated performance as a London barrister. But in his last com- pleted film, perennial pretty boy Tyrone Power also shines, as a murder suspect. It’s hard to discuss Power’s role without revealing the film’s triple surprise twist ending (the videotape still contains the the- atrical disclaimer begging audiences not to reveal it); suffice to say his performance immeasurably heightens its impact. 60 VIDEO MAY 1988

Win one of Sunday Times wrote after the film’s hundreds debut, “I don’t know which is more depressing, the sight of young Peter of exciting Sellers at the beginning of the film, or prizes. the sight of old David Niven at the end.” THE PITS So much has been written about Plan 9 from Outer Space (1959), Bela Lugosi’s last screen appearance, it’s probably the 10TH ANNIVERSARY most famous awful movie ever made. The SWEEPSTAKES sci-fi thriller has such low production val- VIDEO ues that, says critic John Brosnan in The JUNE ISSUE Horror People, “It appears to have been made in somebody’s garage.” Although not Air Disaster: Ethel Merman’s last role was as a as big a howl as it’s reputed to be, Plan 9 is deluded mental patient in the wacky ‘Airplane!’ worth seeing for the director’s chiroprac- tor—shorter, stockier and with a lighter pation in her face. hair color than Lugosi—trying to pass for The ravages of hard living are also the actor by performing his uncompleted apparent in Alan Ladd’s final role, as Neva- scenes with an arm over his face, a la Dra- da Smith in The Carpetbaggers, the 1965 cula. film of Harold Robbins’ sexy novel about The scandal surrounding the tragic Hollywood in the ’30s. It’s a sad farewell. death of Vic Morrow while filming Twilight As Beverly Linnet writes in Ladd, “Not Zone: The Movie (1983) makes one lose even careful photography could conceal the sight of the fact that his segment is the damages alcoholism and the years had in- weakest of the four. Morrow’s star turn as flicted.” a virulent racist who is transported to It makes one contemplate former World War II Germany, the deep South screen queen Joan Crawford, sitting for- and Vietnam tends to disappear amid the lornly in her automotive dressing room. special effects. (One of those effects, an Lionel Barrymore once said, “I'll make pic- exploding helicopter, is what killed the ac- tures as long as I can wiggle,” but one must tor and two others). Writes critic Pauline question the wisdom of Errol Flynn—his Kael, ““There’s nothing the matter with his swashbuckling roles long past—cavort- scowling, bad guy performance, except ing with his 15-year-old girlfriend in his there’s no shading to it... The production is final film, Cuban Rebel Girls. Or Basil overscaled for its dinky, dull idea.” Rathbone, the screen’s quintessential The same can be said for Brainstorm Sherlock Holmes, stumbling through his (1983), Natalie Wood’s last film, an ex- two last films, The Ghost in the Invisible tremely slow moving sci-fi feature about a Bikini and Hillbillies in, the Haunted device that allows people to read each oth- House. er’s minds. Wood, a capable actress, has Perhaps a more appropriate quote no chance for character development. or comes from Alice Faye who, unhappy with emotional growth. Instead, she spends the production values of her 1945 film, The most of the movie with electrodes on her Fallen Angel, retired on the spot. “I drove head. right through the gate and left the key to But she certainly looks great, which is my dressing room with the guard.” Unfor- more than can be said for former peek-a- tunately, she spoiled this gesture by re- boo hair girl Veronica Lake in a sad little turning to the screen in a lousy 1962 musi- film called Flesh Feast. In this 1970 cal, State Fair. You can’t win ’em all. | cheapie, Lake plays a German scientist Whatever the quality of the cinematic attempting to bestow eternal youth on the legacy, whether a viewer’s taste runs from Fuhrer by placing flesh-eating maggots on classic to camp, film finales offer a brand of | his face. The ’40s pin-up girl’s teeth have immortality all their own, and most are a turned an unhealthy yellow, and her obvi- valuable addition to any video library. ously dyed flaxen hair heightens the dissi- | Well, maybe not Flesh Feast.... @ MAY 1988 VIDEO 61

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PROGRAMMING Theatrical Releases The Princess Bride and is presumed killed by pirates, Butter- ever stoops to anachronistic jokes. The 1987. Cary Elwes, Robin Wright, Mandy cup becomes lovelessly engaged to Prince film parodies even its own genre but, for all Patinkin, Andre the Giant; co-pr./dir. Rob Reiner. 106m. (PG) Hi ss cc dig. $89.98. Humperdinck (Chris Sarandon, using the their stiff-backed swashbuckling, the Nelson. Image: excel. same malevolent magnetism he used as the characters all flow with warm humanity. In the age of Freddy Krueger and acid-blooded aliens, it’s hard to entertain a playboy vampire in Fright Night). Then a Despite the postcard perfection of the kid with a fairy tale. In this film, Peter Falk insists on reading his bored grandson one trio of kidnappers abducts her in a plan to sets, there is an undeniable staginess to called The Princess Bride. The grandson (Fred Savage) is understandably cynical blame her assassination on a rival nation. the fantasy. This is deliberately pre-fab and periodically stops the film’s action and | yanks the viewer back into reality because Buttercup’s captors include Montoya the make-believe, like an elaborate Disneyland | the story is getting too “mushy.” Spanish swordsman (Patinkin) and the ride. (Wickedly apt, considering that Dis- Initially, the screen reveals our worst | suspicions about mushy fairy tales, paint- “muscle” of the operation, Fezzik (wres- ney’s compulsory wholesomeness helped | ing a dull idyll of picture-perfect couple | Westly and Buttercup (Elwes & Wright), tler Andre the Giant). Yapping, snarling turn people off to fairy tales in the first | who find true Love. After Westley leaves Wallace Shawn is their leader Vizzini, arole | place.) | that turns his signature neurotic cuteness | The grandson’s initial reluctance paral- into one of neurotic evil. | lels our own misgivings, but ultimately he The film is in every way a comedy. |is enchanted and fascinated by The Prin- Although director Reiner rejoices in the | cess Bride. So are we. It is a far less cynical magic and beauty of fairy tales, he cleverly | boy who finally asks his grandfather to re- | skewers their principal drawback—star- turn tomorrow and tell him the story again. | ry-eyed humorlessness. Reiner’s kingdom I wouldn’t mind hearing it again myself. | is rife with wits and wiseacres, but no one —Drew Wheeler - ae Bridesmen Revisited: | Five members of ‘The Princess Bride’ fairy tale ensemble: Elwes and Wright (left) and Andre, Patinkin and Shawn (above, top down). MAY 1988 VIDEO 63

Theatrical Releases incredible stunts (a car driving into a mov- ment, Tuck Pendleton (Quaid) brings his ing plane). There’s hokey dialogue (“Don’t Right Stuff bravado to bear. Things go think—Jjust let it happen’’) and an incredible awry when his vehicular pod—which does climactic battle with exploding stuntmen an unforgiving dreidl spin, accompanied by falling all over the place. The Living Day- Tasmanian Devil screams when it lights isn’t a great movie—but it is a Bond | shrinks—is accidentally injected into a hy- movie. And the best Bond in years. Ejector pochondriacal Safeway clerk, Jack Putter | seat, anyone? —Tom Soter (Short). As a pair of Silicon Valley chip thieves (Kevin McCarthy and Fiona Lewis) Innerspace employ a James Bond-style hitman and a Middle Eastern technology fence (‘the 1987. Martin Short, Dennis Quaid, Meg man who introduced Velcro to the Persian Ryan; dir. Joe Dante. 120m. (PG) HiStce | Gulf’) to steal a circuit needed to de-minia- $89.95. LV CX St $39.98. Warner. Image: turize Pendleton, he and his bodily. host Take a Flying Leap: Timothy Dalton soars in his good. team up with Tuck’s gal Lydia (Ryan) to | first James Bond film, ‘The Living Daylights.’ Had it not received a vote of little confi- thwart them. The Living Daylights dence from its distributor and a poor re- Dante collects the world’s pop data and sponse from the viewing public, /xnerspace spits it back out, reordered in disorder, 1987. Timothy Dalton, Maryam d'Abo, Joe could have been 1987’s Back to the Future. | with the random access memory of a mod- | Don Baker, Desmond Liewelyn; dir. John In many ways it’s a superior picture, with ernist. With Tuck inside—monitoring and Glen. 130m. (PG) Hi St cc $89.98. CBS/ fewer popular scenario mechanics and Fox. Image: good. more free-flowing caprice. Director Joe commanding Jack’s actions like a teensy Dante (Gremlins, The Howling) grapples TV director in a human control room, The images are evocative: an Aston with the goo of our collective image base: | tweaking his adrenal glands, pep-talking Martin, a martini shaken not stirred, a grim he’s a cartoonist armed with the shorthand him into battle, sharing Jackie Gleason smile, a tuxedoed man saying, “Bond. | polyglot of fairy tales, sitcoms, cinema and rasps after shots of Southern Comfort James Bond.” It’s all part of a ritual that | kitsch. seems as old as movies themselves. Dr. —the mensch within the “wuss puss” is No appeared in 1962, although Ian Fleming Innerspace, which marks the first time liberated. Tables turn when, on a had introduced the world to secret agent Dante has denied his dark side ina film, is a weird amateur gynecological detour, Pen- 007, the man with the license to kill, in the bright science comedy which successfully dleton gets into Lydia’s reproductive sys- 1953 novel Casino Royale. grafts a Lewis-Martin reprise to Fantastic | tem and stares his own cavalier attitude Voyage. As a tomcat test pilot who volun- (and a 2001 image of a fetus) right in the Bond has survived the death of Flem- teers for a human miniaturization experi- ing, the departure of Sean Connery and the face. This movie has body and soul. —Gregory Solman ignominy of Roger Moore. He has turned | from tongue-in-cheek suspense to tongue- in-cheek cartoon without losing a dollar at the box office. The 007 movies have netted _| a total of $2 billion in ticket sales and, if The | | Living Daylights is any indication, the se- ries could earn a lot more in years to come. The producers can thank Timothy Dal- | | ton, a Shakespearean actor whose clipped | | delivery recalls Patrick McGoohan’s but | whose dark good looks and no-nonsense | style are strictly his own. This 007 is grim- | ly serious, a scowling engine of action who | is not only as exciting as Connery but gives Bond movies the focus they lacked for over a decade. | o<ve) If only they had tightened up the plot. | epeet | ~ This one is so complicated it collapses un- LaiSwouGOo der the weight of its own ingenuity. The diamond-smuggling tale involves enough double-dealing to confuse Ollie North. Kiae) pas Yet the familiar attributes are so reas- | 9a=oo suring: John Barry’s rousing score, exotic | | :- |Fm locations (Afghanistan, Austria, Tangiers), | Modesty Ablaze: Dennis Quaid (left) encounters full-scale problems before being reduced in ‘Innerspace..’ Ae We = Paet 64 VIDEO MAY 1988

Matewan 1987. Chris Cooper, James Earl Jones; wr./ dir. John Sayles. 132m. (PG-13) cc $79.95. | Lorimar. Image: good. | In these trickle-down days of union bashing, it takes chutzpah to make a film extolling the virtues of organized labor. No | one who’s seen The Return ofthe Secaucus | 7 or The Brother from Another Planet ex- | pects ordinary celluloid from John Sayles, but even longtime admirers may be sur- | | prised at the quiet power of this gently lyrical film. In Sayles’ capable hands, Matewan is a | simple, even corny tale. The factual story | | takes place in the 1920s in a West Virginia | | coal town. When the overworked, under- paid miners strike, the Stone Mountain | Coal Co. responds with black and Italian | scabs and threats to evict the miners’ fami- | lies from company housing. Things look | bad for the little people. Enter young Joe Kenehan (Cooper), sent by the union to aid in the struggle. This soft-spoken pacifist helps the men pull together, enlisting support from the scabs Star 60: Chuck Berry celebrates his birthday with a gala concert filmed for ‘Hail! Hail! Rock'n'Roll.’ and dissuading the strikers from being ment, both men lose patience as Berry | Hail! Hail! Rock’n’Roll |goaded into armed resistance. The impa- tient miners ultimately cast aside his wise 1987. Chuck Berry, Keith Richards, Little patronizingly instructs an increasingly frus- counsel and set the stage for what came to Richard, Bruce Springsteen; dir. Taylor trated Richards to play a lick. be known as the Matewan Massacre. | Hackford. 121m. (PG) Hi ss dig. $79.95. Hackford also follows Berry on an out- With the inevitable bloody confronta- | MCA. Image: excel. of-town concert jaunt, to a now-defunct tion looming like a brooding storm cloud, Ever since filmmakers began taking club where Berry used to perform and ona precious little excitement is generated | rock music seriously in the 1960s, they tour of his beloved Berry Park. All the | here. Scenes devoted to the miners and | have produced countless documentaries while, the free-spoken star recounts color- _ their families slow the proceedings down, (and docu-dramas) about performers and ful historical tales and offers his unabashed while the one suspenseful subplot—a trai- documentaries about concerts. The crea- views about life, love, family, songwriting, tor’s scheme to turn the miners against tive possibilities of both approaches have, money, race and career. Remarks by rela- Kenehan—is disposed of quickly, as if to say the least, been well exercised. tives, associates, peers (including a re- Sayles regretted introducing such a vulgar To put something significant on cellu- markably funny Jerry Lee Lewis) and ad- distraction. Instead, he keeps the focus loid about Chuck Berry, one of the greatest mirers like Bruce Springsteen, who stum- squarely on the ambience of this troubled talents and most bewildering figures of | bles through a lengthy and rambling recol- town, creating believable characters American popular music, director Taylor | lection of once playing behind Berry, are through plain, understated dialogue and Hackford took the hybrid road and wound interspersed throughout the two-hour fea- unaffected performances. up with a rich, unflattering portrait as un- ture. Though Matewan looks fine on the common and fascinating as its subject. Us- The concert itself turns out to be some- small screen, it plays better on a big one. ing a gala 60th birthday concert in Berry’s thing of an anti-climax. Berry is in fine form The colorful country vistas captured by | hometown of St. Louis for its framework, and the band first-rate and well-rehearsed, Haskell Wexler’s lovely photography seem the film takes a number of intriguing side- but appearances by such interlopers as Ju- too tightly cropped on video, and numer- tracks. Besides capturing plenty of casual lian Lennon and Linda Ronstadt give it the | ous nighttime scenes are so dark it’s often musicmaking in various intimate settings, superficial bonhomie of a television awards impossible to tell what’s happening. Other- | it focuses on Rolling Stones guitarist Keith ceremony. Fortunately, Hackford has wise, this is a small, unfashionable gem Richards, serving as Berry’s pro tem band- managed to capture enough pungent mo- | that might just inspire potential agitators to _ master, who attempts to pull things to- ments along the way to make Hail! Hail! | take up the cause all over again. | gether in spite of the irascible star’s stub- Rock’n’Roll a truly worthwhile musical ex- | —Jon Young born resistance. In one remarkable seg- perience. —Ira Robbins | MAY 1988 VIDEO 65

Theatrical Releases Tough Guys | you thought Adam Ant seemed out of place | on the Motown Twenty-Five special, Don’t Dance wait till you see him here. Slamdance coagulates more slowly than Blood Simple 1987. Ryan O'Neal, Isabella Rossellini; and, instead of a zinging twist to justify the wr./dir. Norman Mailer. 110m. (R) Hi St end of this moral hallucinogen, there’s a cc $79.95. Media. Image: good. cute little plot suture that might have been heisted from a ’60s caper flick. Beware of Former soap-opera star Ryan O’Neal’s film noir that gets so noir you can’t see blandness has come in handy over the where you're going. —John Walker years. His attractive emptiness provided a useful backdrop for the Big Statement (Barry Lyndon) as well as screwy comedy | The Big Town (What's Up, Doc?). In Tough Guys Don’t Dance—which won't be everybody's fa- 1987. Matt Dillon, Diane Lane, Tommy Lee Jones, Bruce Dern; dir. Ben Bolt. vorite video, but you might be sur- 109m. (R) $89.98. Vestron. Image: good. prised—O’Neal becomes the pseudo-pro- Chicago of the 1950s is the Big Town to which Cully (Dillon), a small-time Hoosier, found mouthpiece for some of Norman is unaccountably driven to shoot craps. Dil- lon looks white-trash slick enough, with Mailer’s viler obsessions. sharkskin suits and a raffish jet-black hair- do but the screenplay denies him every Tough Guys asks the musical question: semblance of conviction, hanging instead on the feckless designs of Cully’s Uncle Who put the decapitated blonde’s head in Hooker (Don Francks), a former dice arm. This leaves Cully to choose passion with Tim Madden’s (O’Neal’s) marijuana patch? the Siren (Lane), perilous profit with her husband (Jones), a deadly gambling-den The story then flashes back over a down- master, or the traditional values offered by a lonely divorcee with child. On it rolls, like right perverse daisy chain of deceptions | a country & western ballad with too many verses. and betrayals involving past and present | Dern plays a bitter bankroller who has wives, lovers (both male and female) and | | been waiting years for the return of the gambler who blinded him in his youth. Lee casual acquaintances. You'll be amazed to | The Norman Conquest: Ryan O'Neal gets his Grant, as his wife, is a tough old bird who learn how many problems can be solved hands bloody in Mailer’s ‘Tough Guys Don't Dance.’ offers gratuitous cynicism along with bet- through the clandestine disposal of corpses | ting money. It’s a windy city, indeed, anda sustained slam-dancing? That had more to gambling movie where nothing is at stake. off the Eastern seaboard. Viewers may snigger heartily at the do with the hardcore rock scene than this The performances underscore a partic- campier Jines (Madden’s response to learn- ambitious who-and-why dunnit. Despite ularly obvious good girl/bad girl split. Suzy ing of his wife’s adulterous fling with the | Slamdance’s classy elegance and its Amis, as the country-reared Aggie, is warm and dreamy, with sadly hopeless local cop: “Oh God oh man oh God oh man | oxymoronic L.A. cool, you may pine for bedroom eyes. Lane is the hussy, “en- oh God oh...”), but Tough Guys manages faster pacing as you wait for the heat of the slaved” by her husband to a life of lousy fan to combine enough melodrama and sus- LAPD grilling lamp to bake a little crisp- dancing for which the now-zaftig actress ought to have lost a few pounds. pense with Mailer’s trademark bravado to ness into this minuet. As a meld of “Why am I here?” charac- Otherwise, her bares-all embarrass- raise it above embarrassing-hoot level. Al- ment can be blamed on Ben Bolt, a director | though he wrote the book as a potboiler terizations, Slamdance makes you want to | and may have directed the film as a lark, | care for the kindhearted innocents who oc- | Mailer’s middle-aged creeps sometimes casionally bob to the surface of its all-over- | speak disquieting truths. With its seances, the-place plot; the problem is keeping wild parties, cocaine deals, adultery, evil track of them. Hulce is goofy ne’er-do-well | constabulary and porn stars (these are a C.C. Drood, an underground cartoonist few of my favorite things), Tough Guys is a who finds himself sinking into a murder cornucopia of wild desires harbored by investigation when a former fling (Virginia adults, not teenagers. But I won't lie to Madsen) winds up on the wrong side of the you: much of this movie is fruitier than last River Styx. Director Wayne Wang coaxes humanity-drenched performances from Christmas’ uneaten dessert. —Richard Gehr Mastrantonio (as Drood’s soft-spoken ex- wife) and Stanton (as a detective trying to for L.A. Law and Hill Street Blues whose Slamdance be fair while bobbling some internal affairs film is not even exemplary television. He that may be the key to the confusion), but truncates big scenes as if there’s a com- | 1987. Tom Hulce, Mary Elizabeth Mas- there are too many tangled threads and mercial break looking over his shoulder and buries emotional complexity instead of trantonio, Harry Dean Stanton, Adam Ant; limp characterizations to maintain the en- dir. Wayne Wang. 99m. (R) Hi St cc | ergy a mystery like this demands. dealing with it. Bolt loads the dice but still can’t roll a winner. $79.98. Key. Image: good. | Madsen threatens to burn a hole Remember the infamous Quincy epi- through the screen and rocker John Doe is —Gregory Solman sode in which a punk girl dies from injuries se | 66 VIDEO MAY 1988

it profound. Although they didn’t quite hit the mark, Good Morning Babylon is none- theless deeply felt. The story opens with an impressive tableau of Italian artisans at work restoring | a cathedral. When the family firm closes, the two youngest brothers sail to America ' and wind up working in Hollywood as set | builders for D.W. Griffith’s [ntolerance. Their journey is hard but not without hu- mor; the ending is bittersweet. Yardbirds: Richard Tyson (left) and Casey Siemaszko right) square off in ‘Three O'Clock High.’ The core of the film is the Hollywood chapter, in which Andrea (De Almeida) and Three O’Clock High that remains innocent while his world and Nicola (Spano) must prove their artistic 1987. Casey Siemaszko, Anne Ryan, Rich- | his values crumble. Tyson is equally im- worthiness to the legendary director. The | | ard Tyson, Jeffrey Tambor; dir. Phil | pressive as the emotionless cipher with a Babylon/Hollywood parallel is less strik- | savage moral code. The intelligent screen- Joanou. 90m. (PG-13) Hi ss dig. $79.95. ing than the Tavianis intend it to be. | play is well-choreographed dance of death This particular Hollywood is rural, eccen- MCA. Image: good. tric and not very Babylonian. About the One of the hazards of watching too that nicely modulates the humor and seri- only thing that resonates perfectly is | Dance as the charmingly dour, very impos- many movies (or at least too many bad ousness of the situation. ing Griffith. What makes the story work is movies) is the seen-it-all syndrome, when not symbolism but pure good-naturedness. plots and dialogue become entirely too pre- With no big stars, no overbearing rock It unfolds easily, naturally, believably. The dictable and familiarity indeed does breed contempt. Consequently, a film which de- | soundtrack (most of the subtle music is by German synthesists Tangerine Dream) and no sex, Three O’Clock High is a most fies expectations without descending into unusual teen comedy. Sidestepping the Tavianis are not great auteurs but they are | good storytellers and true romantics. | total absurdity, one which zigs when con- cosmic seriousness of River's Edge for hu- | vention dictates it should zag, is a rare The brothers ultimately return to Italy, pleasure. Three O’Clock High, essentially mor and humanity, it’s an oddity, but one back to the cathedral site where they be- | a comedy noir of High Noon transplanted gan. Plot machinations drench this final leg | to a suburban school, could have taken the | which makes its point. Well worth renting. of the journey in hamfisted irony; the John Hughes road and let the nebbish hero —Ira Robbins | filmmakers fail to sustain their momentum, | Good Morning though the electricity between Spano and Babylontalk his way out of trouble, get the girl and De Almeida is still engaging. For all its thumb his nose at the foolish adult world. Instead, it turns the dreaded prospect of an 1987. Vincent Spano, Joaquim De Almeida, half-fulfilled artistic pretensions this real- unwanted showdown with the new bully on | Charles Dance; wr./dir. Paolo and Vittorio ly works best as a buddy movie—with the | campus into an original, gripping, almost | Taviani. 113m. (PG-13) $79.95. Vestron. understanding that buddy movies and artis- Image: fair. tic impulses needn’t be mutually exclusive. | believable film. Two Italian brothers made this story In those terms, Good Morning Babylon is Assisted by two excellent perform- ances—Siemaszko as the hapless straight- about two Italian brothers. They made it 90 percent successful and completely en- edge Jerry Mitchell and Tyson as Buddy sweet and casual. They also tried to make joyable. —Mark Fleischmann Revell, a wimp’s worst nightmare—direc- — el WY 4 uy | tor Joanou uses such cinematic tricks as ae” ar \\(\\°° ge time compression and expansion, bizarre | angles and camera motion to further exag- gerate Jerry’s snowballing problem into an | all-out war of survival, a battle of wits | ye against the malevolent thug and the school authorities who also intimidate and control him. As the appointed hour nears, the film reaches a level of tension and desperation From Italy With Love: that threatens to unravel Jerry’s previously well-ordered life even without Buddy. The Joaquim De Almeida and Desiree Becker (left) violent climactic battle reaches its obligato- | and Greta Scacchi and | ry conclusion with enough surprises to still | Vincent Spano (right) on be thrilling. | their wedding day in \\ Siemaszko, who bears a passing re- ‘Good Morning semblance to Jerry Mathers, has a face Babylon.’ MJMBG.OAOTBROIYNDRLIONLNGI:, MAY 1988 VIDEO

Non-Theatrical Releases Dante), stars (Charlton Heston) and fellow special effects men (Ray Harryhausen) at- test to both his genius and gentleness in this career documentary. Pal was a producer, director and the best animator ever to use stop-motion techniques in three dimensions. His great- est achievements were the ““Puppetoons,” a series of short subjects made in the ‘40s. Several of these painstakingly produced Happy Memories: moving-puppet films, reproduced here in Anchorman Tom Brokaw breathtaking color, are as wild and beauti- ful as anything this side of Fantasia. This (above) narrates the re- documentary’s only serious flaw is that it spends too little time on the Puppetoons | trospective 1987: The and too much on Pal’s later work. Unforgettable Year,’ featuring such news When Pal tired of shorts, he moved | Stars as Jim and Tammy onto features with Destination Moon | Bakker (left). (1950). The march of technology has dated his sci-fi works—barring, perhaps, The War of the Worlds—yet even now they pack a dramatic punch. The makers of Star 1987: The | cludes with an interminable number of clips : Trek and Star Wars have made careers out Unforgettable Year of departed stars, such as Fred Astaire of refining Pal’s innovations. Perhaps the dancing, Liberace preening and Rita greatest marvel of all, however, is that 1988. Tom Brokaw; dir. Marcia Kuyper Hayworth slinking. 1987: The Unforgetta- when his contemporaries testify on camera Schneider. 75m. V only. $24.95. Wood ble Year is symptomatic of the worst and about his kindliness, their admiration never best of TV news: glitzy, simple-minded seems forced. —Mark Fleischmann Knapp. Image: good. If you like NBC Nightly News, you'll and powerful. —Tom Soter love this compilation of 1987’s big events, The Fantasy Film Young Comedians as reported by the network. TV newscasts are essentially headline services, so if you Worlds of George Pal || All-Star Reunion can imagine a 75-minute headline, you have 1986. Robin Williams, Harry Anderson, a pretty good idea what this is like. 1985. Wr./pr./dir. Arnold Leibovit. 93m. ||Howie Mandel, Steven Wright; dir. ‘alter This answer to a news director’s pray- ers (‘What can we do with yesterday's Hi $39.95. LCA. Image: excel. || Miller. 60m. $39.95. HBO. Image: good. reports?’’) recycles items about every- thing from the Wall Street crash and the In the 1950s, when space travel and | Comedy isn’t pretty, Steve Martin NFL strike to the sexual follies of Gary Hart and Jim and Tammy Bakker in a Armageddon were on the public’s mind, once said, but it should at least be funny. kaleidoscope of images and words, reduc- ing the major and magnifying the minor. George Pal’s fertile visual imagination This HBO TV special offers five big-name made vivid entertainment of both in films comedians introducing five “stars of the | like Destination Moon and The War of the future,” most of whom will probably find | Worlds. Interviews with directors (Joe this their pinnacle. There’s Howard Bus- Conservative activist Howard Phillips is seen calling Ronald Reagan a “useful idiot” | for Soviet propaganda; the Pope kisses an armless man who has played the guitar with his feet; forest fires rage out of con- trol; a little girl is rescued from a well; another child is the sole survivor of a major LBAELRVOIKNAEW: air crash. Memorable lines are replayed, from Ollie North’s claim that the Iran- Contra plan was a “neat idea” to comedian Art During Wartime: JNATPIIANMEMDNRMCCYYE: Mark Russell’s quip: “There is no smoking gun [in this scandal]—we sold it to Iran.” Martian spaceships wreak havoc in George Yet everything takes on a sameness in this report, which is clever, slick and dis- Pal’s special-effect posable—a summary of a summary. It con- classic ‘War of the Worlds.’ 68 VIDEO MAY 1988

gang, a clean-cut guy telling sex jokes. .. aa. Ne (“Last night my girlfriend and I had violent sex. I pulled down my pants and she kicked Nice and Toasty: The Silver Palate crew and friends lay on a gourmet spread in ‘Good Times Live.’ me in the groin.”’) Barry Crimmins, a chub- by man with a walrus moustache, offers each hook-up explains how to watch or built around special events: Spring Fever, jokes about the death penalty, acid rain and record from each source, including a dia- Video Party, Weekend with Guests. Even Grenada. John Mendoza, who sounds like a gram and switch positions. The informa- bitter, nasty Rodney Dangerfield, has the tion is both useful and easy to understand. with its accompanying 32-page booklet, best zingers of the bunch, which isn’t say- But ignore the recommendation to use pli- there’s nothing on the tape that couldn’t be ing much. “You ever wonder if illiterate ers or a wrench to “snug up’ F-type con- people get the full effect of alphabet nectors—most manufacturers recommend better pieced together from its print coun- soup?... You ever wonder what kind of sex- only finger tightening. ual protection the woman is using? My date terpart. —Terence Poltrack was using foam. By the time I found out, I —Lancelot Braithwaite | looked like a mad dog.” AIDS: Can I Get It? The Silver Palate Sex and failed relationships are the sta- Good Times Live 1987. Dr. Jay Keyworth; dir. James Gor- ples of these monologues, taped before don. 48m. cc $9.95, Light (800-544-4888). appreciative audiences in Toronto, Los 1987. Julee Rosso, Sheila Lukins; dir. Jon Image: fair. Angeles, Boston, New York and San Fran- Leland. 40m. $24.95. Paramount/Simon cisco. The veterans’ bits, performed be- and Schuster. Image: good. Despite the unfortunately worded title, fore they introduce the newcomers, show AIDS: Can I Get It? tries to provide all the the startling difference: Harry Anderson’s They couldn't leave well-done enough common-sense information anyone needs charming, low-key magic tricks and Robin about the expanding epidemic. The tape Williams’ off-the-wall free associations are opens with a montage of person-on- as brilliant and unpredictable as their | guests’ material is forced. rview bites expressing It’s true, you can try too hard. As s about AIDS. Chillingly, | Groucho Marx noted upon meeting a wom- ‘ees later identify them- ig been diagnosed with an who had 20 children because she “loved uarely at a “straight” audi- her husband,” “Tlove my cigar. But I take it acuses on people who be- out of my mouth once in a while.” arough heterosexual con- Join the celebration! sign up for a year of great reading on equipment, 1 are the ways you can’t Yr. Anthony Fauci, head of programming, how-to information . . . plus some special treats and surprises! it the National Institute of ng misconceptions about CYes, send me a year of VIDEO (12 Name : m blood donations, bath- monthly issues) at the low basic Anas (please print) wimming pools, etc. (His subscription price of $12.00. | save ittooing and ear-piercing. ) $11.40 (almost 50%) off the cover City _Zip price of $23.40. State sdly termed “‘Safe(r) Sex”; t portrayed as a cure-all. My payment is enclosed g is the only insurance, elen Singer Kaplan of the Bill me ital/Cornell Medical Cen- he view that mandatory 485A2 might drive it further un- nitted, this documentary Please allow up to 60 days for delivery of your first issue. For Canada, add $4.00, U.S. funds. iprehensively illuminates a For foreign countries, add $25.00 for Air Mail delivery, U.S. funds. Foreign orders must be prepaid. sial health crisis. —Drew Wheeler MAY 1988 VIDEO 71

Non-Theatrical Releases Dante), stars (Charlton Heston) and fellow special effects men (Ray Harryhausen) at- test to both his genius and gentleness in this career documentary. Pal was a producer, director and the | best animator ever to use stop-motion | techniques in three dimensions. His great- est achievements were the ‘“Puppetoons,” a series of short subjects made in the ‘40s. Several of these painstakingly produced Happy Memories: moving-puppet films, reproduced here in breathtaking color, are as wild and beauti- Anchorman Tom Brokaw ful as anything this side of Fantasia. This (above) narrates the re- documentary’s only serious flaw is that it trospective ‘1987: The spends too little time on the Puppetoons Unforgettable Year,’ featuring such news and too much on Pal’s later work. stars as Jim and Tammy When Pal tired of shorts, he moved Bakker (left). onto features with Destination Moon (1950). The march of technology has dated his sci-fi works—barring, perhaps, The oe | War of the Worlds—yet even now they pack a dramatic punch. The makers of Star 1987: The cludes with an interminable number of clips Trek and Star Wars have made careers out of refining Pal’s innovations. Perhaps the Unforgettable Year of departed stars, such as Fred Astaire greatest marvel of all, however, is that dancing, Liberace preening and Rita when his contemporaries testify on camera 1988. Tom Brokaw; dir. Marcia Kuyper about his kindliness, their admiration never Schneider. 75m. V only. $24.95. Wood Hayworth slinking. 1987: The Unforgetta- seems forced. .—Mark Fleischmann Knapp. Image: good. ble Year is symptomatic of the worst and If you like NBC Nightly News, you'll best of TV news: glitzy, simple-minded |44 powertul. —Tom Soter love this compilation of 1987’s big events, ws dg ee. Young Comedians asireported by the network, |V newscasts | aay are essentially headline s: can imagine a 75-minute h a pretty good idea what This answer to a new HII NO POSTAGE ers (“What can we do NECESSARY reports?”’) recycles iter IF MAILED thing from the Wall Stre NFL strike to the sexu: IN THE UNITED STATES Hart and Jim and Tami kaleidoscope of images ai BUSINESS REPLY MAIL ing the major and magni Conservative activist H« FIRST CLASS PERMIT NO. 3494 NEW YORK, NY seen calling Ronald Reagz for Soviet propaganda; th POSTAGE WILL BE PAID BY ADDRESSEE armless man who has f¢ with his feet; forest fires VIDEO trol; a little girl is resct another child is the sole si air crash. Memorable lin P.O. Box 52255 from Ollie North’s. clair Boulder, Colorado 80321-2255 Contra plan was a “neat 1 Mark Russell’s quip: “Th: gun [in this scandal ]—we Yet everything takes this report, which is clev posable—a summary of a 68 VIDEO MAY 1988

gang, a clean-cut guy telling sex jokes. (“Last night my girlfriend and |had violent sex. | pulled down my pants and she kicked me in the groin.”’) Barry Crimmins, a chub- by man with a walrus moustache, offers jokes about the death penalty, acid rain and Grenada. John Mendoza, who sounds like a bitter, nasty Rodney Dangerfield, has the best zingers of the bunch, which isn’t say- ing much. “You ever wonder if illiterate people get the full effect of alphabet | soup?... You ever wonder what kind of sex- hh; Be ' ual protection the woman is using? My date | was using foam. By the time I found out, | Nice and Toasty: The Silver Palate crew and friends lay on a gourmet spread in ‘Good Times Live.’ | looked like a mad dog.” each hook-up explains how to watch or built around special events: Spring Fever, Sex and failed relationships are the sta- | record from each source, including a dia- Video Party, Weekend with Guests. Even | ples of these monologues, taped before | gram and switch positions. The informa- with its accompanying 32-page booklet, | appreciative audiences in Toronto, Los tion is both useful and easy to understand. there’s nothing on the tape that couldn't be Angeles, Boston, New York and San Fran- But ignore the recommendation to use pli- better pieced together from its print coun- cisco, The veterans’ bits, performed be- ers or a wrench to “snug up’ F-type con- terpart. —Terence Poltrack | fore they introduce the newcomers, show nectors—-most manufacturers recommend | the startling difference: Harry Anderson’s charming, low-key magic tricks and Robin only finger tightening. AIDS: Can I Get It? —Lancelot Braithwaite Williams’ off-the-wall free associations are 1987. Dr. Jay Keyworth; dir. James Gor- as brilliant and unpredictable as their The Silver Palate | don. 48m. cc $9.95. Light (800-544-4888). guests’ material is forced. Good Times Live Image: fair. Despite the unfortunately worded title, It’s true, you can try too hard. As Groucho Marx noted upon meeting a wom- 1987. Julee Rosso, Sheila Lukins; dir. Jon AIDS: Can I Get It? tries to provide all the | an who had 20 children because she “loved Leland. 40m. $24.95. Paramount/Simon common-sense information anyone needs her husband,” “Tlove my cigar. But I take it about the expanding epidemic. The tape out of my mouth once in a while.” and Schuster. Image: good. opens with a montage of person-on- They couldn't leave well-done enough —Tom Soter alone. By now, anyone who knows his or the street interview bites expressing The Cable TV/VCR her way around a veal chop is familiar with various opinions about AIDS. Chillingly, Hook-Up Guide The Silver Palate Cookbook and its fol- some interviewees later identify them- selves as having been diagnosed with low-up, The Silver Palate Good Times AIDS. Aimed squarely at a “straight” audi- Cookbook. Borrowing from their experi- 1987. Dir. Stephen Naczinskt. 60m. | ences operating a tiny Manhattan take-out, ence, the tape focuses on people who be- $24.95. Naczinski & Associates (800- | Julee Rosso and Sheila Lukins took to print came infected through heterosexual con- | | 623-5503). Image: good. | with clear instructions to help even the tact. Hooking up a VCR to an antenna and a most fast-food-minded turn out dishes that Also covered are the ways you can’t TV is very easy—most can manage it with may surprise the cook as much as the get AIDS, with Dr. Anthony Fauci, head of no more than a manual. However, if your guests. AIDS research at the National Institute of program source is cable you may not be Now comes the video, and ifever there Health, dismissing misconceptions about able to figure out an appropriate hook-up to was an example of print triumphing over transmission from blood donations, bath- let you view and tape all available pro- new technologies, this is it. Despite the room glasses, swimming pools, etc. (His grams. This tape provides step by step hostesses’ enthusiasm, the sugar in this only warnings: tattooing and ear-piercing.) instructions to maximize your options. The recipe far outweighs the flour. There are Safe sex is pointedly termed ‘‘Safe(r) Sex”; Cable TV/VCR Hook-Up Guide provides some practical tips—how to brew cappuc- condoms are not portrayed as a cure-all. | nine specific prescriptions for various kinds cino without a machine, judge perfect pro- AIDS testing is the only insurance, | ofcable service, with onscreen demonstra- duce, grill with skill—but they receive su- concludes Dr. Helen Singer Kaplan of the tions for connecting each wire, describing perficial treatment. The rest of the pro- New York Hospital/Cornell Medical Cen- what each hook-up will—and won’t—do. gram is given over to “Be creative!” excla- ter. Although the view that mandatory The tape is divided into chapters, so mations, some perfectly awful music and testing for AIDS might drive it further un- you need view only the sections that apply. too many shots of the creators’ friends derground is omitted, this documentary A shopping list is provided of accessories enjoying the fruits of the project. Frankly, clinically yet comprehensively illuminates a needed for each of the prescribed hook- who cares? highly controversial health crisis. ups; a clever gadget with slip-in cards for : The tape, like the Good Times book, is —Drew Wheeler MAY 1988 VIDEO 71

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| tapes full of decades-old footage and mo- notonous scripts. Only occasionally does one find a segment like “Now |Am Bigger” (from Baby Animals) offering the gentle »> treat of watching eggs hatch, or a nice bit comparing newborn animals to their 4 older counterparts. Video & the The Concord Children’s Video Encyclo- pedia (Concord), which offers titles like wild kingdom Nature's Systems and Animals, suffers from similarly dated ‘footage, but the scripting and narration are livelier. A child drawn to ocean creatures, for ex- ample, may like Seashores in spite of the flawed presentation. The 12-tape Lorne Greene's New Wil- |BY MARIANNE MEYER making — National Geographic, derness series (Prism) is endorsed by the Jacques Cousteau, David (Life on National Educational Association and rec- Earth) Attenborough—are out on video ommended by the Humane Society and | As May finally brings spring to our win- and, with certain reservations, are high- Parent’s Choice. And for good reason. The | ter-weary souls, kids and adults alike find ly recommended. Armed with budgets that | half-hour cassettes cover the animal world | thoughts turning to the great outdoors. allow for gorgeous cinematography, tight from sealife (Close Encounters of the Deep | Can indoor video increase outdoor fun? scripts and solid production values, nature Kind, Hunters of Chubut) to coyotes (Old Dawn Weiss, assistant supervisor of videos aimed at adults are often too dense Dog, New Tricks) and cougars (The Hunt- education at the Brooklyn Children’s Mu- with detail for children. Still, Irvine praises ress). Each looks at the world through the seum, believes that home video “can whet National Geographic’s series. “Their vid- eyes ofa different animal. One animal occa- [children’s] appetites and teach them how eos are very well researched, and the pho- sionally pounces on another, but Greene to look so that when they do go outside, tography is wonderful. Although they are usually takes the low-key approach, recit- they can take note of things.” Georgeanne done for adults, they have such nice pic- ing dramatic descriptions of the outdoors Irvine, a spokeswoman for the San Diego tures a child can watch with a parent and and pleas for conservation accompanied by Zoo and editor of Koala Club News, a chil- get something out of it.” lush, “Born Free’-type music. High pro- dren’s newsletter on animals and zoo What about shots of the stars devour- duction values make this series the best of | events, feels that video is a natural medium ing each other? Might they upset young the lot aimed at kids. for this kind of education. The zoo has naturalists? Weiss doesn't believe so. ‘If For the family’s youngest members, already been involved in three video proj- it’s taught in a natural, matter-of-fact nature tapes may be less naturalist excur- ects: Rainbow Brite at the San Diego Zoo way—that this is how this animal lives and sions than gentle romps through the animal (Vestron), an entertainment feature put- it needs to kill to eat—children don’t react kingdom, promoting a love of four-legged ting the licensed character in a live-action negatively.” creatures. Baby animals are a naturally fun adventure set within the zoo itself, and Jf’s She does, however, advise parents to subject for baby a Wild Life and The San Diego Zoo Wild place such scenes in context and ‘offer humans. » Animal Park, programs the zoo produced some explanation. Why can’t this animal for sale as souvenirs. “Videos like that eat a hamburger? What is a hamburger make for fun learning,” says Irvine. “Then anyway?’ The San Diego kinder-zoo also you make a trip to your local zoo. You see tries to teach this process, says Irvine, real animals and it’s a whole educational as “part of the food chain. Most pa- process. Sometimes videos can capture rents explain to kids that this is the things you wouldn’t see anywhere else— way nature is. It’s good to show that hatchings, births...” kind of thing, if done tastefully, not Animal dentistry? Zoo-opolis (Pacific graphically.” Arts) is a feature-length behind-the-scenes Nature tapes made for kids look at the Milwaukee County Zoo “narrat- rarely include devouring ed” by a talking giraffe whose lips move as scenes, but evolution, realistically as bad Saturday morning an- alas, has not yet weed- imation. But if you ever wanted to see an ed out weak video species. elephant get a manicure, or a lion go to the Our Natural Heritage Series dentist, here’s your chance. (Concord) consists of All the big names in nature film- more than a half-dozen CPEHALRELES VIDEO 73

As Dawn Weiss explains, “They have fea- Clay and Hay: vii ee tures, like big eyes, that are very childlike. Farmyard pals abound in And children are always role-modeling. ‘The Further Adventures old footage, few of the songs have any They can think of themselves as baby an- of Wil Cwac Cwac’ narrative flow and the characters “sing” imals, or they can take on a mothering (right). ‘The Little Prince only when luck has their mouths moving in role.” And the animals are just plain cute. and Friends’ (above) is rough approximation of the lyrics. When a Claymation version of that happens, the idea’s potential is re- Animal Babies in the Wild and Animal the children’s classic. vealed; most of it, though, is more frag- Babies Just Want to Have Fun (Scholas- mented and bombastic than a half-hour of tic/Lorimar) have already been reviewed in group. “We each have what it takes— MTV, albeit the characters here are these pages (October 1987). These gen- senses, mind, imagination.” And, she more likable. Yet the low-budget price may tle story-and-song collections, with live an- says, few learning experiences compare to make a purchase worthwhile. imal footage, are sweet diversions with an the one that comes when “someone gets animal-loving message for 2- to 6-year- down with us and shares their own excite- The Little Prince olds. Carnival of the Animals (Twin Tow- ment about a topic.” and Friends er), also reviewed (March ’88), is recom- mended for its beautiful Saint-Saens music So, watch a nature video—and then 1976/1979. anim, 90m. $19.95. Pacific and Ogden Nash verse, illustrating action take a hike! Arts. Image: good. Ages 3 and up. at a zoo. All About Animals (Hi-Tops), from the Little Schoolhouse series, is The Further Adventures Gumby and the aimed at 2- to 5-year-olds. Puppet hosts Moon Boggles introduce kids to farm and zoo animals in of Wil Cwac Cwac live action footage and reinforce a gentle 1956. anim. 30m. $14.95, Family. Image: message of respect for the environment. 1983. anim. 46m. $14.95. Family. Image: good. Ages 3 to 7. good. Ages 2 to 5. There are also many cartoons that, With California Raisin mania sweeping while entertaining, make a point for ani- British public television shows for kids the country, it’s fun to look back at three mals and their world. The Seabert series do not have the stigma so often attached to earlier tales by the inventor of the Clayma- (Celebrity) stars a pair of conserva- American broadcasts because the non- tion process, Will Vinton. This version of tion-minded kids and a spunky baby seal commercial system eliminates the mer- The Little Prince tries too hard to hang a who try to stop fur trading, whale hunting chandising element. This Welsh produc- philosophical treatise on a sweet little sto- and other un-natural acts. The animation is tion has the feel of Beatrix Potter, ifnot the ry, and loses its charm early on. But it’s | mediocre, the good-vs-evil plots are sim- same high visual qualities. The animation is hard not to enjoy watching the fascinating plistic and much of the dialogue is down- stiff and the narrator's accent initially Claymation process in the other two tales, right propaganda. Still, it’s an appreciated daunting, but the stories—easily-digested Martin the Cobbler and Rip Van Winkle. By alternative to He-Man-type action adven- five-minute tales of a mischievous duck and comparison, Gumby looks primitive, but ture series. his farmyard pals—are lovely little enter- he and Pokey have nostalgic appeal, espe- tainments for younger children. Recom- cially for parents. But preview first, folks! A better option is Dot and the Smug- mended. We've come a long way since Gumby’s glers (Family Home). The popular Austra- 1950s heyday, and some of the tales (like | lian cartoon series now featured on Ameri- Old Time Rock & Roll “Indian Trouble,” a retro attack on the can cable follows a young girl through fea- reservation) contain very poor messages. ture-length adventures as she interacts Country Rock with various wildlife friends. In this warm-hearted longform, Dot sets out to 1987. anim. 30m. ea. approx. $9.95 ea. expose the circus that fronts a wildlife Kids Klassics. Image: fair. Ages 2 to 10. smuggling operation. The animation puts cartoon images over live-action back- Much like Disney's DTV music video grounds. and the inclusion of a few singable series, Hanna-Barbera has come up with songs raises this a cut above typical chil- HB-TV—oniginal hits combined with im- dren’s fare. ages of such popular creations as Yogi Bear, the Flintstones, the Jetsons, etc. What can parents do to enhance kids’ Because this is primarily spliced-together enjoyment of nature-oriented videos? The obvious answer is to watch with them and exhibit some curiosity, too. Sally Austin, manager of Belvedere Castle, a learning center in New York’s Central Park, has helped design educational programs about the park’s natural inhabitants. Curiosity, she has learned, is not limited to any age 74 VIDEO MAY 1988

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eess nSe Such tapes herald an era of “beautiful cept Synergy, a business group whose in- high Victorian British accent that gradually video,” the TV equivalent of easy-listening terests include art galleries in southern softens to an Irish lilt, while J.Z. Knight, radio that people turn to for soft, soothing California. In The Complete Guide to Chan- the Tacoma, Wash. housewife who chan- music. Indeed, watching China did pro- neling, a tape that features several chan- nels Ramtha, uses more of a King James duce a feeling of calm. Although meant for nels, hostess Barbara Marx Hubbard biblical dialect. (“Know you of what I viewing, just listening to the tape would speaks to Pursel/Lazaris. Watching Pursel speak? So be it!”) Lazaris is soft-spoken probably satisfy Windham Hill fans. get into a trance so that Lazaris can speak and laid back; Ramtha the Enlightened One A more visually absorbing release is is fascinating—amainly because it raises so has amore pronounced style. “I am here to Canyon Consort, a chronicle of the Paul many unanswered questions. The tape al- reflect back to you what you have forgot- Winter Consort creating and recording mu- so features Marcel Vogel, billed as the na- ten,” Knight/Ramtha tells a small audience sic in the Grand Canyon. Other tapes that tion’s foremost authority on crystals, a on the videotape, “and I do it quite hand- make pleasant background for intimate “spiritual leader” named Terri Cole- somely.” If you don’t accept Ramtha’s gatherings, meditations or puttering Whittaker who claims to channel her own message, it’s because “love is alien to around the house are Ocean Symphony, a “higher self’ and author Ken Carey, who you,” she/he announces. Ramtha, we are paean to the ocean and its creatures, and wrote The Starseed Transmission. told, lived 35,000 years ago and was a the Relax Video library, including Sunset, a Channeled spirits who speak on video, bloodthirsty conquerer in what is now the long ocean sunset, and Boating on the Bay, such as Lazaris and Ramtha (as shown on Persian Gulf. After being wounded in bat- vistas from a boat. the tape Ramtha and His Teaching), claim tle, he spent seven years convalescing and No roundup of New Age video would be to love everyone (non-believers, too) and acquiring wisdom. In imparting advice to complete without a look at the fringe, assure audiences that those who reject followers, Ramtha does not mince words. where people—or spirits—with messages their channeled voices “are not ready yet.” A young man in the audience is told he will spread their words to the public via tape. All stress self-love, a concept already die if he ever smokes marijuana again. One well-known and controversial “being” known as the yuppie religion. When Marx This only scratches the surface in called Lazaris is “channeled” by a human Hubbard asks Lazaris for advice about terms of what New Age video has to offer. medium named Jach Pursel. Through channeling and growth, the tenth and final From the sublime to the ridiculous, from Pursel, Lazaris ostensibly says he (actual- point Lazaris makes is “always put self- soothing music to hair-raising trances, ly, “we”) never had a body, but comes to growth first. You must learn to love your- from medically sound advice to metaphysi- bring us words of hope. When not channel- self first, and then others.” cal crystal-gazing, the field promises only ing Lazaris (there’s a two-year waiting list Oddly, both Lazaris and Ramtha speak to grow as people search for something for a personal audience), Pursel runs Con- strange versions of English. 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The EDV-9000 is er/channel +/-, play, stop, rewind CPR300 CPR350 slightly larger and heavier than most con- (search), fast forward (search), record, in- To place your order with a company who offers CUSTOMER TECHNICAL ASSIS- sumer VCRs, partly because of its decora- dex, tape return and EE. Also present are TANCE before and AFTER the sale, AC- CESSORY SUPPORT for their products and tive wood side panels. Cushioned feet add concentric jog shuttle controls with but- who specializes in. . . to its height and dampen external vibra- tons to determine whether the dial controls releEXCLUSIVELY tions. The top half of the front has the transport function or the channel and the cassette hatch, the main display, indicators CALL ‘x 1-800-368-5020 program timer. In Virginia 1-804-595-2572 for audio level, Beta hi-fi, ED Beta, VTR, The outer ring gives a choice of still, yen! RCA digital picture and edit, plus the jog shuttle 1/5x, 1x and 2x search in either direction. DIMENSIA AUDIO/VIDEO dial with direction and speed indicators. The inner disc determines transport speed SYSTEM NOW AVAILABLE! Across the middle of the panel are buttons by how fast it is rotated in either direction. Hours (E.S.T.): Mon-Fri 9 AM - 9 PM for power, eject, TV/VTR, counter reset, In channel/timer mode the inner disc lets Sat 9 AM - 6 PM counter/time remaining, tape return, chan- | you cycle through selections. A gray plas- Bank Ref: Bank Of Virginia MEMBER nel -, channel +, rewind, play, stop and tic flap covers another 44 buttons for edit- Virginia Peninsula pause/still. ing, programming, search, slow motion Chamber of Commerce Another button opens a compartment and digital effects, including stop motion, c.00. E® with more controls. On its door are buttons flash motion and scan. To receive a Free Brochure describing our products as well as our terms and conditions for edit, main/SAP, record mode (speed), Operation. Despite the EDV-9000’s of sale, please write to the address below. clock set, clear, check, quick timer, index enormous editing capability and flexibility it VIDEO DIRECT DISTRIBUTORS 116 Production Drive mark, index erase, data screen, EE, input is easy to operate. The jog shuttle dial is =o)oAZWay-26 0]0/4 select, timer set, back, next, timer record, easy to figure out, and the controls in the ‘“aTaUJ}1/pOU0EdaouN4OUIpUeNOn/ege9NaWIsyWPOpJeU! 84 VIDEO MAY 1988 audio insert, video insert, edit assemble, compartment are less crowded and do edit mark and edit start. The EE button more than those on most high-end models. lets you briefly view a selected input during The calendar-style display and readout playback. make the timer easy to use. On the back wall of the compartment , Even the editing controller is simple: are input jacks for Y/C, video, left and right select the precise edit point using the mark audio and microphone, an output jack for key and the displays tell whether you have stereophones, and a headphone level con- selected the start of a sequence or the end. trol. When the Y/C connector is in use the You can even preview the sequence of video input is switched off. Further right your cuts before dubbing them. All this are double sliders for audio record level, deck lacks is fading and wiping—but now slide switches for audio monitor, MPX fil- we're wishing for miracles. ter/line/PCM, 500/750/830 tape length, The exposed controls on the remote and VTR1/VTR1/off (remote control oper- are also easy to operate, and the buttons ation), and rotary controls for sharpness, under the flap are logically grouped and normal tracking and slow tracking. The Hi- clearly labelled. We rate ease of operation Band button and the tone switch will be as excellent. omitted in the U.S. model and the switch Performance. We could easily go labelled BS online will be renamed AC overboard describing the EDV-9000’s pic- switched/unswitched. ture quality. When viewed through a top The top panel has a small compartment monitor like the Sony XBR Pro with a TV/CATV button, scan sequence (“Videotests,” Apr. ’88), it almost makes controls, switches for channel 3/4 output you feel like you’re ina tiny movie house. and auto MTS/mono, and a still picture Although the picture shows some slight thumbwheel adjustment. The rear has outlining and slightly ragged diagonal lines, three types of remote control jacks and the pictures are unquestionably the best video and Y/C connectors for all line inputs we've seen on any consumer VCR. and outputs. Also present are UHF and Horizontal resolution is over 500 lines. VHF inputs and outputs, a multi-pin con- In theory, it could deliver as much as 540 nector for control L signals, a mini jack for lines. The video signal-to-noise ratio is not control T, and another pair of control S significantly better than that of other input and output jacks. VCRs, but when you consider that noise is Below are mini jacks for remote pause proportional to bandwidth (resolution), just signals in and out and video and stereo keeping the unweighted video S/N at 44.1 audio input, a Y/C connector, and a switch dB is a remarkable achievement. to select an active video input. Following Chroma AM S/N is 43.6 dB and chroma are two groups of jacks for outputs 1 and 2. PM SIN is 42.4 dB. These measurements

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