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["sque mutant is killing eve :he Swamp.\\\" temperature wasn't high \u20ac I see the sultry problems Si D in \\\"The Adventures of El all tale about a very naugl ! heat's on Dennis Weaver a World War II action adv i Batangas.\\\" imer's only beginning to wait for our next releases, the house down. new","ITS IMPOLITE TO MASSACRE PEOPLE WITH YOUR HAT ON. There\u2019s never been a Coming soon to gangster movie quite your video store. like this before. ^entiethIiCENTURY FOX, There\u2019s never been a gangster quite like this before. Joe Piscopo and Michael Keaton star in Johnny Dangerously\u2014 the story of the first hood who ever made the best-dressed list and the most-wanted list at the same time. Johnny\u2019s battle against the repulsive Danny Vermin is more loony than lethal. But this comic spoof makes us stop and think about some important issues. Like crime. Punishment. And tailoring.","P ROG,^^M I NG vie^ 'Kane' & 'Kong' Find new consumer CAV discs have been re\u00ac (Captain Englehorn in Kong) which I Definitive laser Homes leased since then, recently augmented by checked against three references. Crite\u00ac growing imports ofJapanese CAV releases rion\u2019s disc also includes stills, trailers, While tapes make it possible to view a by The Instant Replay (479 Winter St., sketches, model designs, script, and other film, they\u2019re not enough for those who Waltham, Mass. 02154-1216; 800-VHS- information plus commentary and informa\u00ac want to study it. Two more elements are DISC) and others. Those able to obtain tion by noted authorities. For Kane Crite\u00ac needed for the hardcore film student. One CAV discs have used them for their own rion\u2019s authority is Robert J. Carringer; for is better technology; this eventually will be kind of film study: in return for the in\u00ac Kong it\u2019s Ronald Haver. available for tape users in the form of a convenience of having to flip a CAV side frame grabber or memory store, some\u00ac every 30 minutes, they can call upon Although the mail-order prices (the only thing that may appear in the coming freeze, step, and variable framing without way to obtain them at this writing) may generation of digital receivers and not harming the disc. Buffs spend hours with seem relatively high for an LV disc release necessarily in VCRs. The second is more the LV-CAV issues of last yeai'sRaiders of ($89.95 for the 5-side Kane, $74.95 for the extensive information and background for the Lost Ark and this year\u2019s Star Wars and 4-side Kong), they are what you would pay those who want it. The Empire Strikes Back (see the \u201cDirec\u00ac these days for most new theatrical tape tory\u201d). But still missing is the kind of in-, releases. Other Criterion \u201cfilm study\u201d ti\u00ac Criterion has set out to offer what formation about films and the people who tles in the works include 32 great Janus amount to video film courses by artfully made them that a true collector would Collection foreign films such as Renoir\u2019s employing the capabilities of the CAV- enjoy. The Grand Illusion and The Rules of the mode laser videodisc. File and forget your Game, Bergman\u2019s Wild Strawberries and obsolete tape copies of Citizen Kane, King Starting with Kane and Kong, Criterion The Seventh Seal, Fellini\u2019s La Strada, Kong, and other classics. Criterion brings has set out to do something about this. It Kurosawa\u2019s Rashomon and The Seven them to you on frame-access LV-CAV has found the best available negatives for Samurai, Truffaut\u2019s Shoot the Piano Play\u00ac videodisc as you have never been able to these two pictures and mastered them for er, Lang\u2019s M, and Olivier\u2019s Richard III. see them (or even wallow in them) before. normal LV viewing in linear form\u2014with, Criterion says not to be misled. It expects however, added chapter stops at key to concentrate on American films. In contrast to some 1000 CLV titles points that do not interfere with the film but (without frame access) available, there are carefully referenced in the extensive Regular readers will recall our past com\u00ac have been relatively few LV-CAV releases liner notes. Among the wealth of informa\u00ac plaints about the lack of regular CAV re\u00ac since the first MCA DiscoVision Silver tion presented, I would have wished to see leases after the introductory all-CAV MCA catalogue in December 1978. A handful of some plot summary, but that is my hangup. DiscoVision catalogue. It\u2019s nice to know The only flaw that came to my attention is that LV\u2019s future is finally beginning to catch By Ken Winslow the spelling of actor Frank Reicher\u2019s name up with its past. (For more information write or call Criterion; Box 2310, Santa video 53","Monica, Calif. 90406; 800-446-2001, or in The dual Hi-Fi tracks may or may not be Under consideration are positive | California 800-443-2001.) stereo as described above. VHS, because alternatives for children and concerned ' it offered linear dual tracks before it de\u00ac parents. One has been a past proposal to ] Defining the Problem veloped Hi-Fi dual tracks, can be more require a minimum of five hours a week of Of Hi-Fi Frenzy complex in its audio combinations. The two educational and information programming linear heads can provide either dual-track designed for children and to provide tax Hi-Fi confusion is breeding Hi-Fi frustra\u00ac monaural or dual-track stereo. The two incentives to corporations who com\u00ac tion. The problem stems from claims or rotating Hi-Fi heads can provide either mercially sponsor such programs. The inferences about Hi-Fi in the wording of dual-track monaural or dual-track stereo. second has to do with the often lurid pro\u00ac press releases and liner notes. It\u2019s not an motional announcements that accent the intentional deception by program com\u00ac Just to make you feel better (or worse?), violence on TV programs. One draft bill panies: I am convinced that there is an I have yet to find any label issuing in VHS winning wide support would require net\u00ac enormous amount of honest mis\u00ac linear\/Hi-Fi stereo to properly indicate that works and stations airing such an\u00ac understanding about what VCR Hi-F'i is and it is doing so. Stay tuned. isn\u2019t, among both program companies and nouncements to also give equal time to their duplicators. Feds Mull Regulating announcements warning viewers about the Primal Screenings possible harmful effects on children of vio\u00ac You\u2019ve laid out premium dollars for a lent programming. Hi-F'i VCR and have the right to expect The whirlwind of concerns about the what the program label leads you to believe FCC\u2019s deregulation of children\u2019s viewing Beware of Community you are getting. If it is of great importance continues unabated. Last October a Senate Standard Bearers to you, for the time being, my advice con\u00ac Juvenile Justice Subcommittee hearing tinues to be to buy \u201cHi-Fi\u201d identified pro\u00ac centered on whether or not violence and Recent legal actions indicate that as gramming from retailers only on the condi\u00ac aggression in television programming can cable and video grow in popularity, local tion that if it isn\u2019t so on your equipment\u2014 affect the attitudes and behavior of the chil\u00ac concerns about portrayals of sex, violence, as described below\u2014you can get your dren who watch. All those testifying and strong language will increasingly be money back. agreed that parents must take a central raised by groups who not only don\u2019t want to role in monitoring, regulating, and temper\u00ac view the material, but also want to deny Unlike audio \u201chi-fi\u201d\u2014which indicates ex\u00ac ing what their children see. Children learn you the right to do so. It\u2019s another episode tended frequency response, greater about family values, communication, and in the continuing clash between Con\u00ac dynamic range, and better signal-to-noise sharing from television. But what happens stitutional guarantees of free speech and ratio produced by a fixed reading head\u2014 when a family can\u2019t handle its excesses and the Supreme Court-decreed right of com\u00ac VCR \u201cHi-Fi\u201d reproduction has nothing to distortions? What, if anything, should reg\u00ac munities to set local standards. do with the nature of the audio signal itself. ulators from outside the home be expected The term means two separate audio tracks to do? A grand jury has indicted the operator of are coming through the rotating video a Virginia Beach cable system on a com- heads. Beta and VHS do it differently, but A CBS spokesman, representing the plaint brought by a ^oup of local church have this in common. If the video source\u2019s broadcast industry at the hearing, took the leaders over the airing of seven Playboy audio track(s) have extended frequency re\u00ac position that despite studies pointing to a Channel movies that are claimed to have sponse, greater dynamic range, and better correlation between the programming chil\u00ac violated a state antiobscenity law. The signal\/noise, then Beta or VHS Hi-Fi will dren see and what they do and think, there Playboy Channel, which serves about pass it all through. But if audio hi-fi is not is no \u201cconvincing\u201d demonstration of a con\u00ac 800,000 subscribers nationwide, was also on the video master, no amount of VCR nection between TV violence (portrayed indicted. Though, as a cable spokesman Hi-F'i can reproduce what does not exist. or reported) and violence in the real world. points out, \u201cthis is adult entertainment that Many dispute this. Broadcasters respond a certain percentage of our customers have On occasion low-fi movie tracks are pro\u00ac by pointing to differing interpretations of chosen to view in the privacy of their cessed to improve frequency, dynamic just what TV aggression is and whether it home,\u201d the local prosecutor is now range, and signal\/noise. When they\u2019re is always bad. Aggression is found in all charged under state law to convince a jury placed on the video master for the VCR forms and degrees, from sports and car\u00ac drawn from the local community that the Hi-Fi playback, rejuvenated soundtracks toons to primetime murder and mayhem. movies are meant to appeal to a prurient sound quite good. MGM\/UA\u2019s March re\u00ac And it\u2019s not always against people. While I sexual interest, are offensive to contempo\u00ac lease of Gone with the Wind is a case in have seen no end of shooting, demolition, rary community standards, and do not have point. Specialty labels such as Kultur and property destruction on The A Team literary, artistic, or other merit. Video\u2014which offers a growing line of top- series, I have never seen anyone por\u00ac quality ballet, opera, and other material\u2014 trayed as being killed. The bad guys always Last February the owner of a chain of are now making new masters with carefully lose. The good guys, calling upon un\u00ac Cincinnati video stores and one of his processed audio tracks for Hi-Fi video re\u00ac expected resources at hand, always win. clerks narrowly escaped conviction for lease. A second major area of Hi-Fi confusion is that a release so described is not auto\u00ac matically in stereo, with different but com\u00ac plementary audio reproduced from differ\u00ac ent tracks. Hi-Fi VCRs\u2019 dual tracks make stereo reproduction possible, but the source material must start with genuine stereo tracks. Many releases labeled Beta\/ VHS Hi-Fi have in fact dual monaural tracks: the audio coming out of your left and right speakers is identical unless your playback facilities are introducing some kind of artificial stereo. To sum up, if a Beta video release says Hi-Fi, it should have both a mono linear track and rotating-head dual-track reproduction; at least three audio tracks.","handling and selling five adult video titles OP 10 PROGRAMS because the jury was deadlocked: five for acquittal, three for conviction. Jury mem\u00ac \/ \/Cassette Sales Leonard Nimoy, DeForest 1984. Tom Hanks, Daryl bers, seven women and one man, watched Kelley. 144 min. (G) Beta. Hannah, John Candy. 109 all five titles from beginning to end. The 1. Star Trek III: The VHS (stereo). $39.95. min. LV (stereo). $34.95. prosecutor can retry the case. For now the Search for Spock (-)*. Paramount. CED (stereo). $29.95. store owner is off the hook. But it cost him Color. 1984. William Shat- Touchstone. $50,000 and a lot of sleepless nights to ner, Leonard Nimoy, De- \/ \/Videodisc Sales defend himself. Forest Kelley. Beta, VHS \/ \/Cassette Rentals (Hi-Fi stereo, closed cap\u00ac 1. The Empire Strikes Community standards aside, I know tions). $29.95. Paramount. Back (D*. Color. 1980. 1. star Trek III: The what my own standards are and those of Mark Hamill, Harrison Search for Spock (-)*. my lovely lady, offspring, and occasional 2. Gone with the Wind Ford, Carrie Fisher. LV, As above, \u201cCassette friends who share my viewing\u2014be it (-). Color. 1939. Clark CED (stereo). $29.98. Sales.\u201d $29.95. Paramount. broadcast, cable, or video. I make my own Gable, Vivien Leigh, Olivia CBS\/Fox. , decision and have been known to leave my de Havilland. 231 min. 2. Revenge of the viewing group when something is on that Beta, VHS (digitally-en\u00ac 2. The Neverending Nerds (-). Color. 1984. others want to watch, but I don\u2019t. Often it\u2019s hanced stereo, closed cap\u00ac Story (2). Color. 1984. Robert Carradine, Anthony because I think the programming is just tions). $89.95. MGMAJA. Barret Oliver, Noah Edwards, Ted McGinley. plain dumb. Hathaway, Tami Stronach. 89 min. (R) Beta, VHS (Hi- 3. Jane Fonda's Work\u00ac 94 min. (PG) LV (stereo, Fi, closed captions). In short, it\u2019s personal and not communi\u00ac out (2). Color. 1982. Jane CX, closed captions). $79.95. CBS\/Fox. ty standards that count in this multiset, Fonda assisted by 7 in\u00ac $34.98. CED. $29.98. many-channel, time-shifting age. Fewofus structors. 90 min. Beta, 3. Red Dawn (-). Color. have the same tastes, but all of us share the VHS. $59.95. Karl. 3. Purple Rain (5). As 1984. John Milius, Patrick freedom to watch what we want. Anyone above, \u201cCassette Sales.\u201d Swayze, Harry Dean Stan\u00ac who reduces my neighbor\u2019s freedom also 4. Purple Rain (-). Color. LV (stereo, CX, closed ton. 114 min. (PG-13) reduces mine. Think about it. 1984. Prince, Morris Day, captions). $29.98. CED. Beta, VHS (Dolby Hi-Fi Apollonia Kotero. 113 nrin. $19.98. Warner. stereo). $79.95. MGM\/UA. Now Freeze Frames (R) Beta, VHS. $29.98. Can Last Forever 4. Tightrope (-). Color. 4. The Woman in Red 5. Lionel Richie\/All 1984. Clint Eastwood, (4). Color. 1984. Gene Wil\u00ac Next time you ask a friend if he saw a Night Long (-). Color. Genevieve Bujold, der, Charles Grodin, Kelly particular scene in last night\u2019s TV show and 1984. Includes \u201cAll Night Alison Eastwood. 115 Le Brock. 87 min. (PG-13) he says he missed it, whip out a facsimile Long,\u201d \u201cRunning with the min. (R) LV. $34.98. Beta, VHS. $79.95. picture made with Mitsubishi\u2019s P-50U Night,\u201d others. 35 min. Warner. Vestron. video printer. This nifty device looks at the Beta, VHS (Hi-Fi stereo). same broadcast, VCR, cable, video game, $14.95 (introductory). 5. On the Waterfront (-). 5. Bachelor Party (-). videotex, computer, or live camera signal MusicVision. B&W. 1954. Marlon Bran\u00ac Color. Tom Hanks, Tawny you are viewing and will make a single do, Eva Marie Saint, Rod Kitaen, George Grizzard. frame print as a reproduction of what 6. Private Dancer (-). Steiger. 108 min. LV. 105 min. (R) Beta, VHS appears on your TV screen. Color. Tina Turner sings $34.95. CED. $24.95. (Hi-Fi, closed captions). \u201cWhat\u2019s Love Got to Do RCA\/Columbia. $79.95. CBS\/Fox. Whenever you see something you want with It,\u201d \u201cBetter Be Good to visuaUy preserve, press the remote con\u00ac to Me,\u201d others. 17 min. 6. Police Academy (3). 6. Police Academy (1). trol and a completely finished B&W freeze- Beta, VHS (Hi-Fi stereo). Color. 1984. Steve Gutten- As above, \u201cVideodisc frame hard-copy picture will poke itself out $16.95. Sony. berg, Kim Cattrall, Bubba Sales. \u201d Beta, VHS (closed of a front-panel slot in about 15 seconds. Smith. 96 min. (R) LV. captions). $79.95. Warner. When you cue the printer, a large-scale in\u00ac 7. Star Trek II; The $34.98. CED. $29.98. tegrated circuit instantaneously grabs and Wrath of Khan (5). Col\u00ac 7. All of Me (3). Color. stores a single frame in digital memory. or. 1982. William Shatner, 7. Romancing the Stone 1984. Steve Martin, Lily You can keep this frame in memory as long Leonard Nimoy, DeForest (6) . Color. 1984. Michael Tomlin. 93 min. (PG) Beta, as power is on or until you replace it with Kelley. 113 min. (PG) Douglas, Kathleen Turner, VHS. $79.95. Thom EMI. another. You can print as many copies from Beta. VHS (stereo). Danny DeVito. 106 min. memory as you wish. You can change the $39.95. Paramount. (PG) LV (closed captions). 8. Tightrope (2). As print contrast and reverse black & white. $34.98. CED (cl. cap.). above, \u201cDisc Sales.\u201d Beta, An internal roll of thermal paper is capable 8. Jane Fonda's Prime $19.98. CBS\/Fox. VHS (Hi-Fi, closed cap\u00ac of making 220 3-1\/4 by 4-inch pictures at a Time Workout (4). Color. tions). $79.95. Warner. rough cost of two cents each. 1984. Less strenuous 8. The Natural (4). Col\u00ac routines. 50 min. Beta, or. 1984. Robert Redford, 9. Once Upon a Time in Aside from capturing address and phone VHS (closed captions). Robert Duvall, Glenn America (-). Color. 1983. information that always seems to catch you $39.95. Karl. Close. 134 min. (PG) LV, Robert DeNiro, James without a notepad, this would be a great CED. $29.95. RCA\/ Woods, Elizabeth way to get a hard copy of the cast and 9. Raquel, Total Beauty Columbia. McGovern. 225\/143 min. credits for that library you are building. and Fitness (7). Color. (original\/theatrical version) And the next time you score high on a video 1984. Exercises for men 9. The Last Starfighter (R) Beta, VHS (Hi-Fi, game and know no one will ever believe and women of all ages. 90 (7) . Color. 1984. Robert closed captions). $89.95.\/ you, preserve it with a video print. When min. Beta, VHS. $39.95. Preston, Lance Guest, Dan $79.95. Warner. you tape family and friends, put together an Thom EMI. O\u2019Herlihy. 100 min. (PG) album of stills. Pose in front of your own CED. $29.98. MCA. 10. The Natural (5). As camera and monitor and you can let others 10. Star Trek\u2014The Mo\u00ac above, \u201cDisc Sales.\u201d Beta see you the way you see yourself. (For tion Picture: Speciai 10. Splash (10). Color. (Hi-Fi stereo, closed cap\u00ac more information speak to Mitsubishi Longer Version (9). Col\u00ac tions). VHS (Dolby Hi-Fi Electric Sales America, 3033 E. Victoria or. 1979. WiUiam Shatner, stereo, cl. cap.). $79.95. St., Rancho Dominguez, Calif. 90221; 213- RCA\/Columbia. 537-7132.) Copyright 1985 by Billboard Publications Inc. Reprinted by permission.","RE WS HIM CLIPS Produced for Theaters Mean Streets tion, but only if he will sever his ties to scenes are not clarified on tape\u2014possibly Color. 1973. RobertDeNiro, Harvey Keitel, \u201cunworthy\u201d people\u2014specifically to Johnny more the fault of the original than the trans\u00ac David Proval, Amy Robinson, Cesare Boy (DeNiro), a half-crazed wiseguy who fer. Pope comes to the home screen in a Danova; dir. Martin Scorsese. 110 min. blows up mailboxes for fun. clear, skillfully done transfer. The preview Beta, VHS. $59.95. Warner. Reproduc\u00ac version viewed was not yet approved for tion: B In the jittery, episodic, improvisational quality and may have been further refined The Pope of Greenwich Village atmosphere of Streets, DeNiro delivers an for production copies. Color. 1984. Mickey Rourke, Eric Roberts, absolutely dazzling performance\u2014and fills Daryl Hannah; dir. Stuart Rosenberg. 120 out a story which might have been trite and \u2014Richard Jaccoma min. Beta. VHS. $79.95. MGMIUA. flat without him. He plays Johnny Boy to Reproduction: B + the manic hilt\u2014so much so that the film Once Upon a Time in America suffers from a lack of objective distance. It Color. 1984. RobertDeNiro, James Woods, Martin Scorsese's first feature is a views the world of low-rent punks, grind\u00ac Tuesday Weld, Elizabeth McGovern; dir. rambling inner-city tragedy, a bad-dream ing slums, and stifling religion a bit too Sergio Leone. 220 min. Beta, VHS. $89.95. meditation on the terrifying consequences affectionately. Like Charlie, Scorsese Warner. Reproduction; A of destructive personal loyalty. Charlie seems to love Johnny Boy because of his (Harvey Keitel) is a young mafioso-in\u00ac hysterical destructiveness\u2014'not in spite of Once Upon a Time in the West training, a brooding, sensitive man ob\u00ac it. On the surface. Streets has a dated quali\u00ac Color. 1969. Charles Bronson, Henry Fon\u00ac sessed vrith Francis of Assissi, smothered ty which viewers will either find distracting da, Claudia Cardinale, Jason Robards; by the medieval village attitudes of New or charming. All those bellbottoms and dir. Sergio Leone. 165 min. Beta, VHS. York Southern-Italian life. His uncle is teased hair are like the early \u201970s $69.95.ILV. $39.95. Paramount. Repro\u00ac grooming him for a place in the organiza- themselves\u2014not modem enough to have duction: A- the urgency of the contemporary, not dis\u00ac 56 video tant enough to have the romance of the Sergio Leone is the genre movie\u2019s antique. But it doesn\u2019t matter if the years Orson Welles. Famous as le grand auteur have been a bit unkind. Streets is still too of the spaghetti Western, Leone, like tough to need the kindness of strangers\u2014a Welles, refuses to be anything but a ma\u00ac great first film by a major director. nipulator of the most potent myths a situa\u00ac tion can provide. And genres, coming with The same can\u2019t be said for The Pope, built-in mythologies, give him a chance to another film about destructive loyalties manhandle myths with a vengeance\u2014and among modern-day New York Italians. to indulge his nostalgia for his subjects, Technically, the film is superior to characters who tend to be the last of their Scorsese\u2019s post-student production. The kind in worlds that no longer need them. camerawork is sharp, clear, and intimate; The Western is rich in such characters, so the editing crisp and professional. Mickey it is not surprising that West is more suc\u00ac Rourke gives a strong three-dimensional cessful than America. performance. And there\u2019s Daryl Hannah to look at. The only thing Pope lacks that Part of America\u2019s, problem is that it be\u00ac Streets has is soul. Eric Roberts is cast gins so well. The first hour or so of this against type as a Johnny Boy character. nearly four-hour film is perhaps the most He is too catalogue-handsome, too fey\u2014in gripping, intriguing, and purely cinematic fact, effeminate in his portrayal. Perhaps footage done in this decade. It tells the director Rosenberg is trying to imply that story of \u201cNoodles\u201d (Robert DeNiro), who there is repressed homosexuality in ex\u00ac grows up to be head of his Jewish under\u00ac cessive loyalty between men. He\u2019d better world gang, flees their New York stomping not let Johnny Boy and Charlie hear that\u2014 ground when the other gang members are they\u2019ll come and break his legs for him. mysteriously blown away, and returns de\u00ac cades later to explore mysteries old and Streets\u2019 shadowy interiors and night new in response to an enigmatic summons \u2014but from whom? Leone\u2019s handling of the","time frames containing their rise, fall, and pageant signaling the transition from the trated macho man up against nature and a resurrection, using sound and recurrent Old West into modem civilization. images to link the stages of the epic story, strong woman. promises a more focused tale than he de\u00ac Long before Fonda and Bronson finally livers. For while the rest contains flashes face off there is ample indication that they The direction is superb, calling little of the stylistic beauty of the first hour, it are supposed to be two of the most single- doesn\u2019t quite achieve the same enigmatic minded and coldblooded antagonists in film attention to itself as it rivets its audience force, and leads up to an ending that is too history, stalking each other and the fortune elliptical. In this respect the short version, both presume (incorrectly) they can have piecemeal to the lives of these plain folk. though damaged by the missing links at Claudia Cardinale\u2019s expense. But just as present here, did let you know whether neither is able to impress himself thorough\u00ac By, the middle of the film, one feels one has James Woods lived or died. ly upon her, neither is capable of sticking around for the payoff. The kind of men and been methodically exposed to true hard\u00ac To make a tragedy of the stature he women who forged a place in the wilder\u00ac desires, Leone overdoes parts of his tale. ness for civilization to take root are not the ship. But that is Country\u2019s genius\u2014it\u2019s To tell the story of the deceptive death that kind who can make that civilization work. is at the center of the film, he gets carried Part of Leone\u2019s brilliance is that, again like done in fragments: here a still moment away explaining the conditions of the Welles, he can admire this kind of man gang\u2019s boyhoods and the strategems of its without liking him: ambition is never when the wind stops blowing, there a early scams. This is not to say that his pretty. tangents are not often amusing (a subplot twister uprooting livestock and tractors. about the local \u201cfast girl\u201d who grows up to Both tapes are models of the transferral be the quintessential big-mama madam) or technicians\u2019 art. America, because it is Tragedy builds slowly in mounting financial pertinent (the recurrent involvement of newer, has more impressive visual and au\u00ac the Tuesday Weld character with the gang) ral effects. Both repay every technical pressures that beset the family. \u2014indeed, they include some of the most caress. I applaud Warner in particular for striking images in the movie\u2014merely that America: as MGM\/UA did with Heaven\u2019s But this is nothing if not a tale of one they are the price Leone had to pay to Gate, it has gone out on a limb for a picture expand the gangster genre to the propor\u00ac that didn\u2019t conquer the box office. woman\u2019s gathering strength as her man tions he prefers. \u2014M. George Stevenson wilts from that pressure. And the film\u2019s With the Western, Leone is on home ground, and in 1969 he was at the top of his Country dignity is such that it can show this di\u00ac form with A Fistful ofDollars, For a Few Color. 1984. Jessica Lange, Sam Shepard, Dollars More, and The Good, The Bad, Wilford Brimley; dir. Richard Pearce. chotomy and make it plain that the woman and The Ugly under his belt. West is the Beta. VHS. $79.95.ILV. $34.95. first with clearly epic length, as well as the TouchstonelDisney. Reproduction: A understands why the man can\u2019t take it, but first taken from a work of literature (both the Borges story \u201cThe End\u201d and the This bleak pastoral fashions its own defi\u00ac has no time to dwell on it. She must act. All Argentine epic poem Martin Fierro which nition of beauty\u2014the beauty of truth the story continues). From the first frame spoken harshly in an imperfect world. It is a this occurs within the context of a very real (a reference to that other great end-of- magnificent film for this, and all its ele\u00ac the-West Western, The Searchers) to the ments are consistent within this un\u00ac farmers\u2019 saga\u2014made all the more cogent last. West is an ironic, wry, tragic, comic, derstated aesthetic. Jessica Lange arrived and mythic version of the death of the gods on the movie scene as a n5Tnphet in the by the crisis in the headlines. Yes, farmers of the Old West, turning the events sur\u00ac hand of an oversized ape, but here plays rounding a revenge killing into a sacrificial against type as a plain farm woman with really are getting squeezed out by credit. simple concerns\u2014food on the table, clothes on the kids. Shepard is known for The photography is brilliant, lending his dark and sexy image, but plays a frus\u00ac beauty to the bleakness, picking out those telling details that speak cinematically, not verbally. The soundtrack by a group of Windham Hill artists (notably George Win\u00ac ston on piano and Darol Anger on violin) transcends the hip muzak of that label\u2019s usual output and adds dramatically to the effect. Country is an epic in a sense that Gone with the Wind and Ben-Hur are de\u00ac cidedly not\u2014it puts the humans up there on the screen, but it is their concerns and their troubles that are writ large, not their showbiz mugs. \u2014Noe Goldwasser Irreconcilable Differences Color. 1984. Ryan O\u2019Neal, Shelley Long, Drew Barrymore, Sam Wanamaker; dir. Charles Shyre. 113 min. Beta, VHS. $79.95. Vestron. Reproduction: B As further proof that Hollywood is a state of mind and not a town at all. Irreconcilable Differences breezed in (and out) of movie threaters last year, and I predict its trip through your living-room will be even faster. Any resemblance be\u00ac tween the characters in this movie and real people is coincidental and tragic. Young couple fall in love, have a baby, and break","up. He gets rich and famous, she gets fat classic called The Window, a 1947 Nostal\u00ac Not as successful is a second offering by i gia Merchant title that won little Bobby Snyder profiling author and diarist Anais and fever blisters. He directs musical ver\u00ac Driscoll a Special Academy Award and that Nin. Her personality is more deliberate and ; will eventually reappear on video. subtle than that of her friend Henry Miller, j sion of Gone with the Wind starring talent\u00ac and so Anais Observed seems rela\u00ac \u25a0 MCA\u2019s cassette looks and sounds fresh tively stilted. While her considerable | less coked-up mistress. Bingo! He\u2019s bank\u00ac and bright, with clean sun-drenched San following will appreciate this tape, others Antonio as its refreshingly uncliched set\u00ac may have difficulty focusing attention on ' rupt and ex-wife gets rich and famous. ting. I wished I were there. the succession of Nin\u2019s artistic pro\u00ac nouncements, intoned in a European- | Meanwhile, ex-baby is now Drew Bar\u00ac \u2014Harvey Elliott tinged accent that seems over-rehearsed, often heard as voiceovers imposed on im- i rymore, who is depressed all the time be\u00ac The Henry Miller Odyssey ages of the writer looking wistfully at a lily | Color. 1969. Dir. Robert Snyder. 85 min. pond. If I weren\u2019t familiar with the quality ! cause her parents ignore her. She doesn\u2019t Beta, VHS. $79. Masters & Masterworks of her work, I would have been driven up j (15313 Whitfield Ave., Pacific Palisades, the wall by statements like \u201cI am in touch ^ know when she\u2019s well off. These people Calif 90272; 213-454-3836). with a deep subterranean river running in\u00ac Anais Observed side the earth. \u201d Maybe the problem is that | are grotesque self-centered reprobates, Color. 1975. Dir. Robert Snyder. 60 min. Nin, who freely admits a preference for i Beta, VHS. $64. Masters & Masterworks. fantasy worlds of her own making, doesn\u2019t ' though the ending is supposed to be a hap\u00ac get out much; in contrast to the Miller film, ; Robert Snyder\u2019s The Henry Miller Odys\u00ac where Henry displays a voracious appetite I py one because all three eat a hamburger sey is just that: a rambunctious, rambling for activity, knowledge, and good laughs, chronicle of a man who by sheer force of Nin only reluctantly allows Robert Snyder together, smiling wanly. The director\u2014 personality made himself one of the to open things up. greatest writers of this century. While who also cowrote it with a woman; I hope Miller\u2019s animated Brooklyn-accented So it comes as no surprise that one of the meanderings\u2014and his occasional on- best scenes in Anais Observed is the one to God it\u2019s not autobiographical\u2014likes camera monkeyshines\u2014were effective where Nin gets together with Henry Mil- enough to make this film documentary an ler. It\u2019s as animated and provocative as movie jokes. They are no substitute for absorbing look at the man in his 80s, Miller almost every scene in The Henry Miller on video is even more entertaining. Under Odyssey\u2014and that is fine indeed. human comedy. And Shelley Long is no Snyder\u2019s benevolent directorship Miller becomes the cosmic host of a talk-show \u2014Steven Levy substitute for Diane Keaton, though she run amok. After our weird first view of Henry posing for his own death-mask, we C.H.U.D. tries to be. get well over an hour of constant motion, in Color. 1984. John Heard, Daniel Stem, both black & white and color, as the Tropic Christopher Curry; dir. Douglas Cheek. 88 Vestron\u2019s VHS tape does just fine in o\/Cawccrauthor flirts with various women, min. Beta, VHS. $69.95. Media. reacquaints himself with Paris, introduces Reproduction; B the California sun, but the courtship takes us to his good and great friends (from Dur- rell to Brassai), and delivers a fascinating C.H.U.D. (Cannibalistic Humanoid Un\u00ac place in indecipherable darkness on a high\u00ac running monologue on subjects ranging derground Dwellers) aren\u2019t very from watercolors to his icy relationship frightening\u2014I\u2019ve seen worse things in my way in the rain, and the transfer is simply with his mother. Even those who have yet own apartment\u2014which is just one reason to sample Henry Miller\u2019s inspired, why this inept horror flick has all the impact inferior in these nighttime scenes. I would straightforward prose will appreciate his ofaB.O.M.B. lusty brio, shown here to great effect\u2014and have liked to look at these people before I suspect that more than a few will follow up The film opens with a woman and her by devouring the books themselves. dog being sucked into a sewer, where at they turned ugly. \u2014Harvey Elliott least she\u2019ll never have to use a pooper scooper again. Cut to an underground soup Cloak and Dagger kitchen, where bums and bag ladies are Color. 1984. Dabney Coleman, Henry disappearing mysteriously, a tragic urban Thomas, Michael Murphy, Christina situation that naturally has everyone\u2014 Nigra; dir. Richard Franklin. 101 min. even fashion photographerJohn Heard\u2014in Beta. VHS. $79.95.ILV. $34.98. MCA. an uproar. No wonder government offi- Reproduction: A cials are trying to cover up the fact that C. H. U. D. really stands for Contamination This is a movie for Father\u2019s Day. A little Hazard Urban Disposal and that those kid in search of heroes finds his Dad too hideous creatures are actually the bums preoccupied to fill the bill, so with the help and bag ladies themselves, mutated as a of his Atari and his imagination, he invents result of radioactive waste dumped under Jack Flack, who looks just like his Dad. Manhattan. And with all that human flesh Davey lives in a world of video games and running around, they\u2019ll never go hungry fantasy adventures, but when he stumbles again. across real-life murder and espionage and can\u2019t convince anyone to believe him, it\u2019s The dialogue includes such gems as up to Jack and Davey, and Jack\u2019s help has \u201cYou must be a pretty important fella, fel- its limits. In the nick of time Dad arrives to la\u201d and \u201cHe\u2019s a madman. Gas could drive save the day, and Davey realizes he those things up here.\\\" The plot features doesn\u2019t need Jack anymore. Heroes come such sensible scenes as the photographer\u2019s in all sizes. girlfriend being mysteriously splattered with C.H. U. D. -related blood in the show- Sometimes modest virtues are enough er, then sitting calmly to watch TV. Mean- to make good entertainment, and it is a while, everyone in the film is threatening to mark of Cloak and Dagger\u2019s modesty that run to the press if something isn\u2019t done life-or-death chases take place on city buses, not in careening cars. The age of the pursued (11) has a lot to do with that and with everything else in Cloak andDag\u00ac ger. the spy plot is pursued and uncovered from a kid\u2019s point of view. Modesty also marks the solid and unsentimental per\u00ac formances of Dabney Coleman as both Dad and Jack Flack. Cloak and Dagger doesn\u2019t patronize its kids\u2014the movie is exciting and suspenseful, even on its own terms\u2014 but neither does it shortchange its grown\u00ac ups. The gap between father and son is breached with tenderness and conviction, sans sappiness. Davey is played earnestly by Henry Thomas of E.T., and Michael Murphy makes an especially sadistic villain. The only false note is struck by brassy Christina Nigra, who plays Davey\u2019s young playmate as an incipient Selma Diamond. Cloak and Dagger is actually a remake of a minor","about C.H.U.D. They should have threatened to go to the Screen Writers Guild. When the slimy creatures finally appear, their obsessive quest for flesh does take on entertainment value in that goocM)ad way B-movies have of mesmerizing you with absurdity. And the demented musical score adds the perfect touch of queasiness; too bad it underscores the notion that this film could have been prevented with a mere bottle of Pepto. The depressing greys and blues of the color scheme are well-captured in the transfer, but the image, like the script, is a little blurry. \u2014Michael Musto The Adventures of bang action and tongue-in-cheek esoterica. The Search for Spock picks up where Buckaroo Banzai Yet the film\u2019s barrage of absurdities is so Wrath left off and more or less nullifies the Color. 1984. Peter Weller, John Lithgow, Ellen Barkin, Jeff Goldblum; dir. W.D. brash and persistent it\u2019s ultimately at least theme of its predecessor. But it suffers Richter. 103 min. Beta, VHS. $79.95. Vestron. Reproduction: B semi-irresistible. Rather than go crazy try\u00ac from a worse sin: it takes itself much too Buckaroo Banzai is either the most in\u00ac ing to figure it all out, you find yourself seriously. Most of the movie is over\u00ac ane garbage imaginable or the most bril\u00ac liant cult film ever made. It\u2019s the kind of going with the idiotic flow almost as reck\u00ac whelmed with a sense of grand mission, movie for which they invented rewind\u2014 \u201cwhat just happened?\u201d\u2014but in the im\u00ac lessly as the actors themselves. with heavily underlined sequences that say paired state recommended for viewing this obscure black comedy, it\u2019ll be difficult to They\u2019re a lovable menagerie, especially \u201cthis is about friendship\u201d\u2014as though sim\u00ac summon up the energy to press buttons. Just watch it straight through 10 times\u2014 John Lithgow as the demented Dr. Emilio ply telling a good story well wouldn\u2019t and by then, even if you don\u2019t know if it\u2019s brilliant or not, you\u2019ll at least know which Lizardo and Ellen Barkin as Penny Prody, mission enough. one\u2019s Banzai. the overemotional identical twin of Buck- Part of Star Trek\u2019s, success has de\u00ac Turns out he\u2019s a half-American\/half- Japanese neurosurgeon who\u2019s also adept at aroo\u2019s ex-wife. The conviction behind their pended on the main triumverate of charac\u00ac martial arts, and has a rock band called the Hong Kong Cavaliers as well as a propen\u00ac madness almost convinces you that maybe ters, each representing one aspect of sity for breaking the sound barrier at the slightest provocation\u2014wacky guy. Peter there is something to this thing after all. humanity: Spock is the mind, McCoy the Weller plays him drily, barely batting an eyelash as beings from the eighth dimen\u00ac At times the transfer cuts off the tops of heart, and Kirk the wit\u2014the synthesizer of sion and\/or Rastafarians from outer space compete for his attention while the Presi\u00ac scenes and elongates the image. But as heart and mind. The three characters (and dent keeps calling to find out what to do about Russia. Buckaroo himself always says as an ex\u00ac actors) worked so well together that even With that kind of nonstop zaniness Ban\u00ac planation for everything, \u201cRemember, no when the stories were weak, the per\u00ac zai wants to be an instant cult movie and you can feel it straining to be worshipped in matter where you go, there you are.\u201d Un\u00ac sonalities\u2019 interplay could carry the tale. In every frame. It also wants to be an engrossing adventure, not just a parody, derstand? \u2014Michael Musto Search, however, the producer\/writer and veers uncomfortably between slam- Harve Bennett has sacrificed Leonard Star Trek III: Nimoy (and Spock) to the director\u2019s chair The Search for Spock and made McCoy (DeForest Kelley) a Color. 1984. William Shatner, Deforest Kelley, James Doohan; dir. Leonard shadow of his former self. Without them Nimoy. 108 min. Beta, VHS. $29.95. Reproduction: A William Shatner\u2019s Kirk seems unbalanced It would be hard to top the second Star \u2014a bit excessive, a bit humorless; cer-. Trek film. The Wrath ofKhan. It had well- staged action scenes, witty and perceptive tainly not as bad as in Star Trek-\u2014the characterizations, and an affecting theme; coming to terms with mortality. It ended Motion Picture but not nearly as moving' with the noble death of Spock. or as vulnerable as in The Wrath ofKhan. In addition, director Nimoy uses broad strokes when thin ones would do, and Ben\u00ac nett\u2019s dialogue is sometimes a little hokey even by Trek standards (\u201cWe have paid for it with our dearest blood\u201d). Nonetheless, Search has its moments, usually involving the nominal bad guy, Klingon commander Kruge (Christopher Lloyd). Lloyd puts a lot ofjuice into a stan\u00ac dard villain part and, although he lacks the high camp of Ricardo Montalban\u2019s Khan, manages to create a formidable foe. Overall Search is a mixed bag, a hollow reflection of good and bad Treks past. Like the body of Spock, seen unconscious through most of the story, the film seems to be waiting in vain for the magic touch that will bring its disparate parts to life. The transfer, though, is excellent: rich and vibrant, with a good Hi-Fi soundtrack that nicely captures James Homer\u2019s vibrant score. And the price is even better. Keep it up. Paramount! \u2014Tom Soter","QUICK TAKES\/FILM The Return of Martin Guerre pretend we\u2019re talking about a character Color. 1982. Gerard Depardieu, Nathalie played by Bela Lugosi) is an implausibly Baye; dir. Daniel Vigne. Ill min. French beloved doctor and chemist for a cosmet\u00ac with English subtitles. Beta, VMS. ics company, embittered because\u2014well, $79.95. Embassy. Reproduction: A he\u2019s alienated from the fruits of his labor. If Bruegel had designed movies instead Seeking revenge on his fairly likable capi\u00ac of canvases, he might have made this slen\u00ac talist employers, he develops an exotic der antique mystery. It is peopled with aftershave fragrance and breeds giant bats rich and colorful characters, a village full of who will kill at the first whiff of the stuff. He skullcapped peasants\u2014farming, feuding, asks his benefactors to try it on. After one and fearing demons. A stranger walks into murder, enter the blocking characters: the 16th-century village claiming to be a two wisecracking journalists and (you man who walked out on his family eight guessed it) the beautiful daughter of the years earlier. The truth about his identity capitalists, who becomes the love interest ultimately seems less important than of one of the journalists. This formulaic whether he is a good man. The film is cheapie is good enough to be respectable beautifully shot, with landscapes and com\u00ac and bad enough to be good, but not idiosyn- positions that provide much of the movie\u2019s cratically wretched enough to be art. subtext. Embassy\u2019s beautiful VHS transfer Transfer is suitably pathetic. And that\u2019s the retains the rich reds with no bleeding and way it B. \u2014John Leland the somber earthtone browns predominate without making the film look drab. Finally, Hambone. Miss Lillian loses him at JFK Johnny Nobody B&W. 1961. Nigel Patrick, William Ben- Embassy has released the movie with sub\u00ac Airport and the movie follows his cross\u00ac dix, Aldo Ray; dir. Nigel Patrick. 88 min. Beta, VHS. $39.95. Monterey. Reproduc\u00ac titles\u2014as it should have done in the first country hike to join Miss Lillian in a Califor\u00ac tion: A place. \u2014Harvey Elliott nia retirement village. He gets dognapped An atheistic writer startles a pious Irish village by challenging God to strike him by a sleazy medical-lab supplier, befriends down, and a man without a memory appears and shoots him. Is he a miracle or a The Wild Life Easy Rider's Robert Walker\u2014who, still murderer? This throwback to G.K. Ches\u00ac Color. 1984. ChristopherPenn, EricStoltz, terton follows the town priest as he Ilan Mitchell-Smith, Jenny Wright, Lea mellow after all these years, puts him in attempts to unravel the truth. Despite su\u00ac Thompson; dir. ArtLinson. 96 min. Beta, perb sound and picture quality, the views VHS. $79.95.ILV. $34.98. CED. MCA. tune with the universe\u2014and has other of Irish life and the sheer gravity of the Reproduction: B + acting are funny, and the \u201cmystery\u201d is adventures. As for Miss Lillian, she hasn\u2019t predicated on the notion that the police Would it destroy my credibility to admit can\u2019t do their job. And if you can\u2019t figure out Fast Times at Ridgemont High is one of much to do, and bad scanning of the wide the ending well in advance, you just aren\u2019t my all-time favorite movies? That it, more Catholic. than any other movie I\u2019ve ever seen, screen adds to the problem by ignoring embodies and satirizes the true spirit of my \u2014Steven Grant high-school experience? That may explain some human characters to focus on both my fascination and my disappointment with The Wild Life, a teensploitation film animals. \u2014Harvey Elliott about the misadventures of two young guys in a singles apartment. Cameron Trouble in the Glen A Rumor of War Crowe wrote both scripts. Sean Penn Color. 1954. Orson Welles, Forrest Tuck\u00ac starred in Fast, Christopher Penn in er, Margaret Lockwood, Victor McLaglen; Color. 1980. BradDavis, Keith Carradine, Wild. Both movies offer funny as well as dir. Herbert Wilcox. 91 min. Beta, VHS. painfully insightful glimpses of love, friend\u00ac $39.95. NTA. Michael O\u2019Keefe; dir. Richard T. Heffron. I ship, sex, andthe agony of growing up. But i while Fast was almost oppressively true to \u201cAnother high-spirited romance from 90 min. Beta, VHS. U.S.A. Reproduction: my milieu (all of my friends turned out the author of The Quiet Man, \u2019\u2019 says the burgers in fast-food restaurants). Wild box of this Republic color programmer. It A flaunts its defiance of it (none of my friends does have some of the more interesting had a singles apartment). The strength of aspects of the Ford classic\u2014an American War is hell\u2014especially in this conscien\u00ac both movies is in boy\/girl relationships: stepping into a tinderbox situation that gets they\u2019ll make you cringe. The Wild Life is a worse before it gets better, clan warfare, tious look at the Vietnam War, which good movie trapped inside a bad idea. (It is political sophistication about rural society. also MCA\u2019s first VHS Hi-Fi release.) Orson Welles deliciously incarnates the dredges up all the cliches about idealism new Laird of Glen Eachen whose battle \u2014John Leland against \u201chis\u201d peasants soon involves his gone sour and young men dying for daughter (Lockwood) and the American (Tucker)\u2014first as antagonists, then as nothing. It chronicles the real-life story of lovers. Not devoid of camp or sap, this film still has much to recommend it and Wilcox Lt. Phil Caputo, who starts his Marine does a creditable job directing. Ford he isn\u2019t, but who is? career looking forward to the \u201cgreat \u2014M. George Stevenson adventure\u201d of war but ends up hating the whole thing. The characters are all stan\u00ac dard war-movie types (the knowledgeable sergeant, the cynical lieutenant, the crazy Hambone and Hillie colonel) and many of the scenes could have Color. 1984. Lillian Gish, Candy Clark; dir. Roy Watts. 97 min. Beta, VHS. Killer Bats come out of M*A*S*H or Hell is for $69.95. Thom EMI. Reproduction; B + B&W. 1942. Bela Lugosi, Suzanne Kaaren, Dave O\u2019Brien, Guy Usher; dir. Heroes. The acting is fine within the limits Gish is the first lady of the American Jean Yarborough. 70 min. Beta, VHS. screen\u2014-the very first lady. Now she is 89 $14.95. VCI. Reproduction; B - of the script and the explosives and blood and in a dog of a movie about a dog named Get this: Bela Lugosi (let\u2019s not even are excellently reproduced. Like the war it depicts, however, the point of the movie is muddy. \u2014Tom Soter","VIDEO CLIPS Produced lor Home Viewing Star Trek: The TV Series but he is not human. To be so, says Star ing: \u201cDo you like what you see? Absolute Color. 1966. Where No Man Has Gone Trek, is to feel. To make mistakes. To be power corrupting absolutely?\u201d The best Before, The Corbomite Maneuver, Mudd\u2019s emotional. To care. episodes have calculated histrionics and Women, The Naked Time, Charlie X, The well-staged action. They are notable for Enemy Within, The Man Trap, What Are The best Star Trek is the stuff of opera: the wildly varying performances of Shat\u00ac Little Girls Made Of?, Dagger ofthe Mind, stylized morality plays with characters ner, who can be both terribly good and Miri. William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, painted in broad strokes that allow the terribly bad\u2014all in the same episode (see DeForest Kelly; dir. various. 50 min. ea. viewer to empathize. As David Gerrold, a especially \u201cThe Enemy Within\u201d). Beta, VHS. $14.95 ea. Paramount. former Star Trek writer, put it in The World of Star Trek: \u201cWe want to be as In the end, what do you say about Star Its creator Gene Roddenberry called it a brave as our Captain Kirks, as cool as our Trek? That it has a message? That it has \u201cWagon Train to the stars,\u201d but that ear\u00ac Mr. Spocks, and as outspoken as our Dr. good character types? That it has con\u00ac lier series has been forgotten while Star McCoys. We long to be as colorful and as cepts? And that it now has the welcome Trek cruises on, rerunning and rerunning larger-than-life as they are. \u201d familiarity of an old friend? Yes, and you around the country. Kirk, Spock, Bones, can even say it\u2019s fun. Scotty, Uhura, and the other denizens of For the uninitiated (if there is such a the huge 23rd-century starship Enter\u00ac thing), the best of the first 10 are \u201cCharlie The transfer is excellent, the majority of prise\u2014along with phrases like \u201cBeam me X,\u201d a witty yet disturbing episode with the episodes exhibiting crisp color and up Scotty, \u201d \u201cHe\u2019s dead Jim, \u201d and \u201cTo bold\u00ac Robert {Strangers on a Train) Walker\u2019s sharp sound. The earlier shows have faded ly go where no man has gone before\u201d\u2014are lookalike son as a human with strange a little, but not too noticeably. That the more familiar to some people than their powers, learning what it means to live in shows are uncut is a delight. own families. Why? Though you can look society; \u201cThe Naked Time,\u201d which spot\u00ac for the answer in books, at conventions, lights all the leads in moments that would \u2014Tom Soter even in Ph. D. dissertations, the show itself eventually become familiar as shtick is still the best place to look\u2014and Para\u00ac (was this the first time Scotty warned that The Executioner's Song mount\u2019s release of all 79 episodes on \u201cthe engines can\u2019t take much more of this, \u201d Color. 1982. Tommy Lee Jones, Rosanna videotape will sure help. or that Spock cried?); and \u201cWhere No Man Arquette, Eli Wallach; dir. Lawrence Schil\u00ac Has Gone Before,\u201d with Gary {2001) ler. 157 min. Beta, VHS. $59.95. U.S.A. The first 10 episodes\u2014beginning with Lockwood and Sally {M*A*S*H) Keller- the series\u2019 second pilot, \u201cWhere No Man man as two crewmen transformed by an Gary Gilmore is fading into history, and Has Gone Before,\u201d and running through alien energy field. Shades of 200V. Yet while people remember his name, few can \u201cMiri\u201d\u2014show what all the fuss has been Kirk\u2019s message is melodramatically tell\u00ac say what he did. But his 1977 death resur\u00ac about. A typical episode presents the rected the death penalty, which had lain heroic Captain Kirk (William Shatner) with dormant in America for 10 years. Surpris\u00ac a seemingly insoluble dilemma, such as a ingly, he fought not the sentence but ev\u00ac plague affecting the crewmembers (\u201cThe ery attempt to have it lifted. Not surpris\u00ac Naked Time\u201d) or a menacing alien capable ingly, Gilmore\u2019s macho bravado in the of destroying the ship (\u201cThe Corbomite face of death snagged the imagination of Maneuver\u201d). The solution usually reaf\u00ac Norman Mailer, whose book The Execu- firms what it means to be human, and en\u00ac tails the assistance of Science Officer Spock (Leonard Nimoy) and Chief Medical Officer McCoy (DeForest Kelly). They are two sides of the human coin\u2014one is logic, the other emotion\u2014and Kirk\u2019s wit and de\u00ac cisiveness balance them out. Humanity is what the series is about, for all its sci-fi trappings. The best episodes deal with human issues from growing up (\u201cCharlie X\u2019\u2019) and sexism (\u201cMudd\u2019s Women\u201d) to penal systems (\u201cDagger of the Mind\u201d) and computers (\u201cWhat Are Little Girls Made Of?\u201d). In \u201cThe Naked Time\u201d the crewmembers are affected by a virus that forces them to reveal their innermost selves: their fears, hopes, and dreams. In \u201cThe Enemy Within\u201d Kirk is divided into two parts of the same man: one savage, the other compassionate. In \u201cWhat Are Little Girls Made Of?\u201d a brilliant scientist trans\u00ac plants his mind into an android body but finds that his soul is missing. He can think. Vidao 61","tione\/s Song provided the basis for this Curly\u2019s best, with prime work firom Tar- The Best of W.C. Fields * movie. zan-impersonating Larry, gun-wielding B&W. 1930-33. 60 min. Beta, VHS. Moe, a braless saloon dancer, and a judge $19.95. Spotlite. Gilmore\u2019s life was stupidly wasted and begging the boys to \u201ccontrol your killer his death was pointless, but Mailer trans\u00ac instincts!\u201d Here, the \u201cbest\u201d of Fields is \u201cThe Golf formed him into a romantic hero. Shucks, Specialist, \u201d \u201cThe Dentist, \u201d and \u201cThe Fatal he was just a frustrated country boy with The strength of most documentaries is Glass of Beer,\u201d three of the five shorts the soul of a poet, lookin\u2019 for love in all the n the quality of the film clips. Since Co\u00ac Fields made during the sound era. For wrong places. His angst is rooted in sexual lumbia owns almost all Stooge films, Karl some reason many companies have re\u00ac rejection, while his sensitive soul is ground leased these same three prints\u2014with the underfoot by life. To Mailer, Gilmore\u2019s Video had access to only one Curly short same splice marks, space between each problem wasn\u2019t wanting too much too soon (\u201cDisorder in the Court,\u201d used exten\u00ac film, and soundtrack problems\u2014and al\u00ac regardless of the cost; it was the inability of sively) and a few Shemps for The Making of ways in the same order. (Why not include women to deal with Gilmore\u2019s inability to the Stooges. This material is on several pub\u00ac \u201cThe Barber Shop\u201d and \u201cThe Pharma\u00ac deal with them. The film (adapted by Mail\u00ac lic-domain cassettes, along with other cist\u201d?) If Spotlite\u2019s version has a shade er himself, presented as a TV mini-series, \u201crare clips\u201d the box cover mentions. less contrast than some others, it also then released in a more coherent, risque Stoogephiles and other nyukleheads have costs a lot less. theatrical version) reiterates Mailer\u2019s the\u00ac probably seen the boys\u2019 Simonize commer\u00ac sis. Gilmore\u2019s thoughts are speckled with cial, \u201cStop Look and Laugh\u201d trailer, and \u201cThe Golf Specialist\u201d was Fields\u2019 first talk about God, soul, karma, and love, and excerpts from The Ed Wynn Show and sound short, and the last one featuring the he\u2019s portrayed as a sublime outsider strait- Hollywood on Parade. New to me were the peculiar moustache that had fringed the jacketed by society but acutely aware of its short clip from \u201cDancing Lady\u201d with Joan underside of his nose for 20 years. It\u2019s hypocrisy and therefore defiant to the end. Crawford, and two ten-second shots of the almost a direct filming of his stage skit as he As this view is less than accurate, it\u2019s hard Stooges live on stage: Curly in the \u201940s attempts to tee off, only to be distracted by to take The Executioners Song seriously doing a dance step, Curly-Joe in the \u201960s blowing newspapers and the various despite its admirable qualities. trying to do a dance step. So the action scamps and vamps who wander by. \u201cThe clips illustrating Steve Allen\u2019s narration of Dentist\u201d is also a traditional stage sketch It\u2019s a well-executed movie (though the the Stooges\u2019 history may be familiar to with Fields taking on a variety of peculiar picture was often fuzzy) with stunning hardcore fans. So is the biography for any- customers, bouncing asides off them, mis\u00ac Utah scenery. Tommy Lee Jones is suit\u00ac using them, and in one famous sequence ably borderline for the lead, while Rosanna le who\u2019s read the Maurer, Forrester, or Arquette is electrifying as his girlfriend; Feinberg books. her Nicole is as psychotic as Gilmore. But the film exemplifies the problem of docu- But a third of the tape offers quickie drama. Instead of augmenting history, it interviews with friends and cowork\u00ac turns history to fiction and tries to replace ers, which are interesting and fun. it. \u2014Steven Grant Appearing are directors Ed Bemds and Jules White, Jack Mahoney, some Stooge Three Stooges Comedy Classics cameramen. Curly\u2019s wife and daughter, B&W. 1932-47. Moe Howard, Shemp longtime Stooge defender Leonard Maltin, Howard, Curly Howard, Larry Fine. 79 Paul Winchell, and the ubiquitous Emil Sit\u00ac min. Beta, VHS. $19.95. Spotlite. ka. Bernds had a great line on Larry: \u201cMost of his ideas were irrelevant. He was The Making of the Stooges a bit flakey.\u201d This coupled with a clip of Color, B&W. 1984. Narr. SteveAllen. 60 Larry stomping on a piece of chewing gum min. Beta, VHS. $39.95. Karl. and howling in triumph like Tarzan. It\u2019s totally idiotic\u2014and hilarious. His eyes were small and squinty, like raisins in thickened oatmeal. His nose was The average viewer mildly curious about lumpy like an old potato. Greasy hair skit\u00ac the boys\u2019 story will find the hour fairly en\u00ac tered down either side of his head from the tertaining and informative. But it sure part in the middle. His ears were the size of whets the appetite for a Columbia Stooge zweiback crackers. And his voice drifted documentary, full of slapstick montages between gruffy wiseguy and whining and the home movies owned by Moe\u2019s stooge. He was Shemp, AKA Samuel Hor- daughter Joan. witz. Columbia\u2019s official 10-tape Stooge collection is Shempless. Most people think \u2014Ron Smith of the Three Stooges as Moe, Larry, and Curly. But real fans know that Shemp was, in his homely way, one heck of a stooge. He could make you yock your tonsils out. Just in time for the 30th anniversary of his death in November 1955, Spotlite Video has released Three Stooges Comedy Classics, essentially a best-of-Shemp cas\u00ac sette. It has \u201cMalice in the Palace, \u2019\u2019 \u201cSing a Song of Six Pants, \u2019\u2019 and \u201cBrideless Groom\u201d in which the hapless lamebrain tries to find a woman who doesn\u2019t cringe over his sap manners and some of the grossest faces he ever made. The latter two classics were made in 1947, the year after his deteriorat\u00ac ing brother Curly suffered a stroke and had to retire. But\u2014as if to show that one Curly is worth three Shemps\u2014the tape adds a bonus, \u201cDisorder in the Court,\u201d one of 62 Video","seemingly having an erotic tryst with the duplicated on both cassettes in which Judy hour or two, a variety of pots, pans, and lady, who in the throes of tooth-pulling, has molds, and a food processor. Even but\u00ac wrapped her legs around his waist. \u201cFatal sings a sentimental tribute to her children, tered rice becomes an adventure (with bay Glass of Beer\u201d is pure cinematic delirium, a leaf, tabasco, and parsley). But the results, melange of British music-hall song and Loma and Joey Luft. It\u2019s sweet, but once is for the experienced chef, are tempting and straightfaced non sequitur, an in-joke be\u00ac impressive. tween Fields and his fans that parodies enough. \u2014Harvey Elliott Alaska, melodrama, sentimental song, and So it\u2019s Jacques for beginners, Craig for even fflm reality. It has that beautifully A Guide to Good Cooking seasoned viewers. And for all\u2014both tapes timed, terribly delivered snow-in-the-face Color. 1984. Jacques Pepin. 85 min. Beta, have this\u2014there\u2019s the \u201cmaking petaled gag, and the line that\u2019s since gone into VHS. $49.95. Videocraft (141 E. 55 St, roses out of peeled tomato skin\u201d trick. Bartlett\u2019s Quotations as a Fields original: N.Y.C. 10022). \u201cT\u2019aint a fit night out for man nor beast. \u201d Master Cooking Course \u2014Ron Smith Color. 1984. Craig Claiborne, Pierre Some viewers will wonder what\u2019s so Franey. 57 min. Beta, VHS. $29.95. Yes You Can Microwave funny, but others will smile from ear to ear MCA. Color. 1984. DonovanJon Fandre. 56 min. at Fields\u2019 nuance and style. Viewing Fields Beta, VHS. $29.95. JCI (5308 Derry on tape is like finding a bottle of Napoleon If you don\u2019t know how to boil an egg, Ave., Suite P, Agoura Hills, Calif 91301; brandy in the basement. \u2014Ron Smith that\u2019s OK. As long as you know how to put 818-889-9022). a tape into your VCR, A Guide to Good Judy: Judy Garland in Concert Cooking with Jacques Pepin will run you The mistake most cooking programs Vols. 1 &2. B&W. 1964. 60 min. Beta, through the basics, including how to cook (and books) make is assuming people VHS. $34.95. RKO. an egg without getting a filmy layer of grey know how to cook. There\u2019s a big difference on the yolk or a rubbery white. From how between following a recipe and knowing It is hard to believe that Judy Garland many knives to buy to how to stop a cutting once had a weekly TV show\u2014and harder how to cook. Donovan Jon Fandre, of the still to believe America ignored it. Pitted by board from sticking (put a wet dishcloth cable cooking program Microwaves Arefor CBS against Bonanza, The Judy Garland under it) to techniques for cutting onions, Cooking, doesn\u2019t make that mistake in this Show folded after 13 hour-long programs garlic, and tomatoes, this former chef to cassette introducing the principles of mi\u00ac that are now classics. Some featured high- Charles de Gaulle and other French presi\u00ac crowave cooking. His easygoing plain- powered guest stars like Ethel Merman, dents should help most interested cooks spoken approach is a welcome relief. Lena Home, Judy\u2019s daughter Liza Minnelli, hone their kitchen skills. The finale is a and a hot newcomer named Barbra fried-chicken recipe complete with sauce This tape packs an enormous amount of Streisand, but the most successful format and fruit salad. Though it isn\u2019t part of a information into less than an hour. Some of proved to be The Concert\u2014inspired by series, this tape could be since there is so it is sketchy, and Fandre\u2019s delivery is Judy\u2019s 1961 triumph at Carnegie Hall and much to cover. But it has more than quick, but you can go back to clarify. The modeled on those glorious evenings at the enough tips to be worth viewing. (Do you show begins with an explanation of what Palace when she would threaten to \u201csing know the difference between black, green, cooking does to food and the differences \u2019em all and stay all night.\u201d And RKO has and white pepper?) between conventional and microwave released two of those concerts. techniques, demonstrates some experi\u00ac Drily efficient Craig Claiborne and pep\u00ac ments to help you get the feel of cooking Sometimes her voice doesn\u2019t climb pery, shouting chef Pierre Franey demon\u00ac this way, and offers 11 basic tips for new where she wants it to go. When she\u2019s faced strate onion slicing and garlic chopping but microwave cooks. There are \u201cchapters\u201d with choreography, she looks as if she\u2019s don\u2019t show, as Pepin does, the importance on cooking utensils and accessories and on forgotten it all and has just decided to hop of curled fingers or the way to position the the process of converting standard recipes around happily. She\u2019ll make not-so-quick blade against protruding knuckles. Their to the microwave. changes and joke blackly about the \u201cdead tape is a four-episode cooking show with spot\u201d in the show. And she even screws up only a few incidental tips along the way. Then, of course, there are recipes, lyrics, getting tongue-tied on \u201cToot, Toot, (Some tips clash with Pepin\u2019s: Should the although they are included mainly to dem\u00ac Tootsie. \u201d But you still can\u2019t take your eyes green sprout in the garlic be used? Craig onstrate the tips and skills discussed off her, because, through all the gaffes, she says no. Should garlic be mashed? Pepin elsewhere in the show. This is not a video brings a rare and magical quality to her says yes, for extra strong flavor.) Four cookbook. But Fandre\u2019s versions vocals that wipes every other variety- complete menus are shown step by step, of Osso Buco (Milanese veal shanks) and show singer off the map. Investing her starting with things like cream-of-carrot leg of lamb make the viewer drool right on material with raw emotionalism as well as soup, sauteed cucumbers, and beet-and- cue. Included with the tape is a good little that evocative throbbing belt, Judy Garland endive salad, progressing to poached sal\u00ac paperback of the same title for kitchen makes every song a risk; sometimes the mon, chicken Portuguese, and a fish reference. cameraman has a hard time keeping up mousse. You need space, a spare with her frenetic physicality. She doesn\u2019t \u2014Tim Onosko merely sing a song. She lives it. And she\u2019s also a funny lady, both in her deadpan asides to the audience and in her clown\/tramp performances in \u201cA Couple of Swells\u201d iJxomEasterParade) on Volume 1, and \u201cBe a Clown\u201d (from The Pirate) on Volume 2. The second cassette has more traditional Garland material (including a stunning \u201cMan that Got Away\u201d) and the first gives her some spirituals and patriotic numbers you might not have heard her do before. Though the programs are virtually de\u00ac void of production values, RKO\u2019s tape-to- tape transfer has good audio and only minor ghosting. The only problem is a segment","QUICK TAKES\/VIDEO Sakharov Zawinul\u2019s anthemic \u201cBirdland,\u201d and they Color. 1984. Jason Robards, Glenda smoke it well. For those of you with a Jackson; dir. Jack Gold. 120 min. Beta, surround-sound system or a serviceable VHS. $69.95. Prism. quad receiver, the added sonic benefits are This straightforward biography begins in SQ-encoded. It\u2019s like sitting in the middle 1968 as Sakharov (Robards) begins ex\u00ac of a windstorm. \u2014Noe Goldwasser pressing his ideas on global nuclear secu\u00ac rity and meets his second wife Elena Bon\u00ac Slapstick B&W. 74 min. Beta, VHS. $39.95. Spot- ner Gackson). Viewers can\u2019t help but shud\u00ac lite. der when the couple return to their apart\u00ac There are plenty of rarities on this sur\u00ac vey of silent slapstick comedy: seldom- ment and, almost casually while checking seen Mabel Normand, Larry Semon, Ver\u00ac non Dent, and Fatty Arbuckle material. the mail, he says to her, \u201cIt\u2019s a letter for Will Rogers as Ford Sterling in a Keystone Kops parody, and Billy West and Oliver you from the KGB. \u2019\u2019 Other than David Rin- Hardy imitating Charles Chaplin and Eric Campbell. Chaplin, Langdon, Keaton, and tel\u2019s necessarily talky script, this is as good Lloyd are here too, but the focus is on the unusual and the forgotten. The narration is as any made-for-HBO film. Strangely, continuous and esoteric (do you care who Monty Banks\u2019 stuntman was?) as it ex\u00ac however, it does not ignite the ideological plains how gags were done and which obscure stars to look for, but students of fire or raise the emotional wrath one would making of the 3-minute song is loaded with comedy won\u2019t mind. For subsequent viewings, just turn dovm the sound. expect from such a deftly made polit\u00ac behind-the-scenes hipness and giggles, \u2014Ron Smith ical film. \u2014Tim Onosko some mugging for the camera, shots of the stars rehearsing their solos, clips of the Jam: Trans Global unfinished song with and without backing Unity Express music, and snippets of overheard conver\u00ac Color. 1982. TheJam. 29 min. Beta, VHS. sation. Boy George knifes through it all in a $19.95. Sony. quick interview affirmmg that helping the This Video EP shows the band at the hungry in Ethiopia is a positive thing to do, time of its final disappointing studio LP. and besides, \u201cWe\u2019re so indulgent, aren\u2019t The nine songs, run through at breakneck we?\u201d The project did bring attention to the pace, do nothing to help the uninitiated world hunger problem, and offered a fragile understand the Jam\u2019s huge appeal in its hint that rock music still can change the Little Rascals on Parade B&W. 1932-38. SpankyMcFarland, Alfal\u00ac native England. Live, leader Paul Weller\u2019s world. A little. \u2014Ron Smith fa Switzer, Stymie Beard. 95 min. Beta, VHS. $59.95. NTA. handling of guitar and vocals prevents the Crisp, clear prints unmarred by cuts, complexities of the Jam\u2019s albums from com\u00ac Playboy's Girls of Rock & Roll splices, or commercials help preserve the somewhat fragile charm of the Little Ras\u00ac ing through. A better bet is Snap!, a video Color. 1985. Michelle Rohl, Natalie Pace, cals. This six-short compilation from the favored Spanky\/Alfalfa era offers antiques companion to the band\u2019s posthumous Celena Allen & the Splitters, BrendaHolli- filled with coy character comedy (\u201cHe-Man Woman Hater\u201d Alfalfa courting precocious greatest-hits album, compiling the best of day, Ava Cherry, Kimberly McArthur, Dag- Darla Hood) and bizarre situations (two gross little kids playing the parts of midget its video clips. \u2014Wayne King mar Peterson, Debra Raye, Cheryl Rixon, gangsters are dressed up like babies so they can rob a party given for real little Rainey Haynes. 60 min. Beta, VHS. kids). Treading the line between cute and numbing, nostalgic and depressing, most Dio: A Special from $59.98. CBSIFox. of the shorts are fairly amusing\u2014and the two mentioned near-classics. The Spectrum It seems perversely right that a country Color. 1984. Ronnie James Dio, Vinny \u2014Ron Smith Appice, Jimmy Bain, Vivian Campbell, that refuses to endorse the Equal Rights Claude Schnell; dir. Phil Tuckett. 51 min. Beta, VHS. $29.95. Warner. Amendment would mask softcore porn Hard-rock warhorse Dio is a charming under the guise of rock & roll. Except for host. Gliding about a stage festooned with lasers, smoke bombs, hydra-headed the middling Rainey Haynes, these 10 per\u00ac snakes, and Egyptian icons, he communes with an audience hungry for the good ol\u2019 formers have almost uniformly midrangy days of hard-rock concerts. Director Tuck\u00ac ett sidesteps the developing notion of con\u00ac voices, little interpretive ability, and vir\u00ac cert\/conceptual tapes and paints the screen with the stage pyrotechnics. He tually no charismatic spark. They\u2019re all looks at everyone in the band, unafraid to hold shots for longer than TV\u2019s customary gorgeous, of course, about half displaying she seconds, and the approach succeeds stylishly. Dio should blow him a few kisses. their wares bare. If you want to see a \u2014Frank Lovece singing centerfold, cent Rockin\u2019 with Seka. The women of rock & roll deserve better Richard Pryor: Live & Smokin' Color. 1971. 46 min. Beta, VHS. $59.95.1 than this. \u2014Frank Lovece LV. $34.95. Vestron. Do They Know It's Christmas? Bill Watrous\/Refuge West Band I\u2019ll bet it wasn\u2019t even Pryor\u2019s idea to Color. 1984. Documentary; Boy George, Color. 1981. Watrous and big band; dir. exhume this 14-year-old monologue\u2014an Sting, members of Bananarama, Duran Ric Trader. 24 min. Beta, VHS. $19.95. off-night in an off-year. Shot at New York\u2019s Duran, Boomtown Rats, Kool & the Gang, Sony. Improvisation, it has neither the razor-cut- Phil Collins, others. 30 min. Beta, VHS. ting outrage of his later concert films nor $9.95. Vestron. In every big city with a music school, the good humor of his mainstream movie herds of big-band freaks follow horn roles. Virtually strung out on bitterness, This 30-minute documentary on the soloists as if they were prophets. This Pryor clearly delights in knowing that the video mini-concert is for them. Though not audience is united in one long uncomfort\u00ac slick on the video end, the audio is impec\u00ac able squirm as he delivers dissertations on cable. Watrous is the trombone legend various shock-value topics, most having to who marshalled these 18 young players do with sex and poopoo. into a swinging ensemble. They strut their way through four numbers, capped by Joe \u2014John Walker 64 Video","DI R RY New Releases on Tape and Disc The big news in this month\u2019s Directory is a trove of classic You\u2019ll find a pair of Bill Cosby tapes this month: Bill Cosby, films from the \u201930s to the \u201950s\u2014you know, old movies. Far Himself, a standup routine for grownups, and Bill Cosby\u2019s from being musty artifacts, many of these gems are as involv\u00ac Picturepages, for preschoolers. Bill Murray\u2019s first serious ing and rewarding as anything produced today. And they\u2019re dramatic performance, in an adaptation of Somerset cheaper, too. Look for pricetags as low as $19.95, which is well Maugham\u2019s The Razor's Edge, got mixed reviews in the the\u00ac below the original asking price for many of these titles. aters\u2014^judge for yourself on video. The Graduate is making its However, there is still no sign of price reduction for oldies at second appearance on magnetic tape. CBS\/Fox released and subsequently dropped it; now it\u2019s back under the Embassy the rental counter. aegis, this time in Hi-Fi stereo. Look for this more recent The Silver Screen Edition label, making its Directory debut, issue. has been formed by Prism Entertainment to compete with RCA\/Columbia continues to release fine foreign films. Don\u2019t Kartes Video Communications in offering these $19.95 clas\u00ac miss One Wild Moment, a French farce, and Ingmar Bergman\u2019s sics. Both companies make special efforts to find complete, spellbinding After the Rehearsal. Pacific Video\u2019s La Passante best-quality negatives and prints, and to provide top-notch and MGM\/UA\u2019s Gabriela are also worth a look. Bio buffs will release copies. We screened one of Kartes\u2019 Keystone Comedies like Warner\u2019s Sunrise at Campobello (Franklin D. Roosevelt) volumes and found the reproduction to be excellent. And Silver and Prism\u2019s The Gathering Storm (Winston Churchill). Screen\u2019s photography and liner notes are particularly im\u00ac pressive. This month\u2019s \u201cVideo Collector\\\" is devoted to Myma Loy. ADVENTURE Brothers of the Wilderness. investigates Indian disturbances. Davies. Drug-laden boat from Co\u00ac Color. 1984. George Randall, Beta, VHS, $59.95. Buena. lombia heads into trap. 93 min. Alexander Nevsky. B&W. Charles Kivette, Mark Sawicki, Beta, VHS. $49.95, Media. 1938. Nicolai Cherkassov, N.P. Alina Szpak. Boy chooses between The Corrupt Ones. Color. 1967. Okhlopkov. Teutonic knights bat\u00ac the wolf who taught him the mys\u00ac Elke Sommer, Robert Stack, Nan\u00ac Hit Lady. Color. 1974. Yvette tle serfs and warriors in 13th- teries of the forest and his parents. cy Kwan. Photographer unwitting\u00ac Mimieux, Clu Galager, Joseph century Russia. By Sergei Eisen- 60 min. Beta, VHS. $29 plus $2.50 ly acquires precious medallion. 87 Campanella, Dack Rambo, Keenan stein. 108 min. Beta, VHS. (Rus\u00ac s&h. Magic. min. Beta, VHS. $59.95.' Wynn. Female assassin in struggle sian, English subtitles). $19.95. Embassy. for life. 74 min. Beta, VHS. Kartes. C.C. and Company. Color. $59.95. Prism. Angels Die Hard. Color. William 1970. Joe Namath, Ann-Margret. Cyrano de Bergerac. B&W. Ice Station Zebra. Color. 1968. Smith. Small town invaded by Mismatched lovers and motorcy\u00ac 1950. Jose Ferrer, Mala Powers, Rock Hudson, Jim Brown, Ernest bikers. 86 min. (R) Beta, VHS. cles. 91 min. (PG) Beta, VHS. Edgar Barrier, Elena Verdugo, Borgnine, Patrick McGoohan. $59.95. New. $59.95. Embassy. William Prince. Great scholar and Station at the top of the world Attack Force Z. Color. 1981. Mel poet, whose large nose brings him guards top secret. By John Gibson, John Phillip Law, John Cattle Queen of Montana. Col\u00ac ridicule, falls in love. 112 min. Sturges. 150 min. (G) Beta (Hi- Waters, Sam Neill. Locating a de\u00ac or. 1954. Barbara Stanwyck, Beta, VHS. $19.95. Silver. Fi). VHS (Hi-Fi Dolby stereo). fecting Japanese official during Ronald Reagan, Gene Evans, $59.95. MGM\/UA. World War II. 84 min. LV (side 1 Lance Fuller. Government agent Dead Wrong. Color. Britt CLV, side 2 CAV, CX). $29.95. Ekland, Winston Rekert, Jackson Inside Out. Color. 1975. Telly Factory. Savalas, Robert Culp, James Mason, Aldo Ray, Doris Kunst- Bigfoot and Wildboy\u2014 mann. Thief, former concentration Volume 1. Color. 1978. Ray camp commander recover stolen Young, Joseph Butcher. Contains Nazi gold. 98 min. (PG) Beta, \u201cThe Secret Invasion,\\\" \u201cSpace VHS. $59.95. Warner. Prisoner.\u201d 48 min. Beta, VHS. $29.95. Embassy. Invitation to a Gunfighter. Brady's Escape. Color. 1984. Color. 1964. Yul Brynner, George John Savage, Kelly Reno. WWII Segal, Janice Rule. Gunslinger American pilot shot down over hired to kiO outcast. 92 min. Beta, Nazi-occupied Hungary. 92 min. VHS. $59.98. Key. LV. $34.95. Vestron. The Little Drummer Girl. Color. 1984. Diane Keaton, Yorgo Voyagis, Klaus Kinski, Sami Frey, Michael Christopher, David Such- et, Eli Danker. Actress recruited by Israeli counterintelligence to trap terrorist leader. 130 min. (R) video 65","Beta, VHS (closed captions). The Stranger and the Gun- Carlin on Campus. Color. 1984. Vestron. $79.95.\/LV. (cj. cap.). $39.98. fighter. Color. Lee Van Cleef, Lo George Carlin in concert does \u201cA Warner. Lieh. Robber accidentally kills Place for My Stuff,\u201d \u201cGetting Hallywood High. Color. 1976. wealthy Chinese lord. 106 min. Through the Day,\u201d \u201cPrayer,\u201d Marcy \/Vlbrecht, Sherry Hardin, Long John Silver. Color. Robert LV. $29.95. RCA\/Columbia. \u201cCars,\u2019\u2019more. 59min. LV. $29.95. Rae Sperling, Susanne Kevin Newton, Rod Taylor, Kit Taylor, Vestron. Mead. Four teenage beauties Connie Gilchrist, Lloyd Berrell. Tennessee's Partner. Color. cruise the California coast. 81 min. Search for hidden fortune on Trea\u00ac 1955. John Payne, Rhonda Flem\u00ac A Different Story. Color. 1979. (R) Beta, VHS- Vestron. sure Island. 109 min. Beta, VHS. ing, Ronald Reagan, Coleen Perry King, Meg Foster, Valerie $39.95. Gems. Gray, Tony Caruso, Morris Ank- Curtin. Two unconventional peo\u00ac The Inspector General. Color. Lovely...But Deadly. Color. rum. Gold miner befriends ple, despite all odds, fall in bed. 107 1949. Danny Kaye, Walter Slezak, 1982. Girl takes on school drug gambler. Beta, VHS. $59.95. Barbara Bates, Elsa Lanchester, dealers. 95 min. (R) Beta, VHS. Gene Lockhart, \/Han Hale, Walter Vestron. Toy Soldiers. Color. Cleavon min. (PG) Beta, VHS. $59.95. Catlett. Salesman mistaken for in\u00ac The Mackintosh Man. Color. Little. Friends of students caught Embassy. spector general by small Russian 1973. Paul Newman, Dominique in Central America attempt to res\u00ac town. 102 min. Beta, VHS. Sanda, James Mason, Harry cue them. 85 min. (R) Beta, VHS. Dinner at Eight. B&W. 1933. $19.95. Silver. Andrews, Ian Bannen, Michael $69.95. New. Marie Dressier, John Barrymore, Hordern, Nigel Patrick. Mission to Treasures of Jamaica Reef. Jean Harlow, Wallace Beery, Irreconcilable Differences. stop traitorous master spy. 100 Color. Cheryl Ladd, Stephen Lionel Barrymore, Lee Tracy, Color. 1984. Ryan O\u2019Neal, Shelley min. (PG) Beta, VHS. $59.95. Boyd, Roosevelt Grier, David Edmund Lowe, Billie Burke, Long, Drew Barrymore. Girl sues Ladd, Darby Hinton. Search sunk\u00ac Madge Evans, Jean Hersholt, parents for divorce. 112 min. (PG) Manhunt. Color. Henry SUva, en Spanish galleon for gold. Beta, Karen Morley, Phillips Holmes, Beta, VHS. Vestron. Mario Adorf, Woody Strode, Adol\u00ac VHS. $59.95. World. May Robson, Grant Mitchell. Park fo Cell. Syndicate tracks down sup\u00ac The Wild Panther. Color. Spies, Avenue snob gives a dinner party. It Happened One Night. B&W. posed drug thieves. 93 min. Beta, guerrilla fighters in Kung Fu com\u00ac By George Cukor. Ill min. Beta, 1934. Clark Gable, Claudette Col\u00ac VHS. $59.95. Media. bat. Beta, VHS. $49.95. World. VHS. $39.95. MGM\/UA. bert, Walter Connolly, Roscoe Karns, \/Han Hale, Ward Bond. Re\u00ac The Night of the Juggler. Col\u00ac COMEDY The Emperor's New Clothes. porter, runaway heiress fall in love or. 1980. James Brolin, Cliff Gor\u00ac Color. Art Carney, Alan Arkin, on a bus trip. 105 min. LV. $29.95. man, Richard Castellano. Psychot\u00ac The Best of Mary Hartman, Dick Shawn. Two conmen plot to RC\/VColumbia. ic kidnaps teenager. 100 min. (R) Mary Hartman Volume II. Col\u00ac sell the Emperor new clothes. 60 Beta, VHS. $49.95. Media. or. 1976. Louise Lasser, Greg min. Beta, VHS (Hi-Fi stereo, Keystone Comedies Voiume Mullavey, Mary Kay Place, closed captions). $39.98. CBS\/ One. B&W. 1915-16. Rosco Ninja III: The Domination. Col\u00ac Graham Jarvis, Dody Goodman, Fox. \u201cFatty\u201d Arbuckle, A1 St. John, or. 1984. Lucinda Dickey, Sho Debralee Scott, Philip Bruns, Vic\u00ac Mack Swain, Minta Durfee. Con\u00ac Kosugi. Spirit of Ninja assassin tor Killian, Claudia Lamb. Three The Flying Deuces. B&W. 1939. tains \u201cFatty\u2019s Faithful Fido,\u201d \u201cFat\u00ac drives girl to kill his enemies. 92 Fernwood Flasher episodes. 70 Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Jean ty\u2019s Tintype Tangle,\u201d \u201cFatty\u2019s min. (R) Beta (Hi-Fi stereo, Dolby min. Beta, VHS.\/LV. $29.95. Parker, Reginald Gardiner, New Role.\u201d 51 min. Beta, VHS surround sound). VHS (Hi-Fi Dol\u00ac Embassy. Charles Middleton, James Fin- (music soundtrack). $19.95. by stereo). $79.95. MGM\/UA. layson, Harry Langdon. Ollie and Kartes. Better Late than Never. Color. Stan join Foreign Legion, then Razorback. Color. 1982. Greg\u00ac 1983. Art Carney, David Niven. change their minds. 67 min. Beta, Keystone Comedies Volume ory Harrison, Arkie Whiteley, Bill Struggling photographer, aging VHS. $19.95. Silver. Two. B&W. 1915-16. Rosco Kerr, Chris Haywood, David cabaret singer inherit 10-year-old \u201cFatty\u201d \/Hrbuckle, Mabel Norman. Argue, Judy Morris. American heiress. 95 min. (PG) Beta, VHS. Gabriela. Color. 1983. Marcello Contains \u201cFatty and Mabel at the searches Australian outback for $59.98. Key. Mastroianni, Sonia Braga. Middle- San Diego Exposition, \u201d \u201cFatty and missing journalist wife. 95 min. (R) ager starts complicated romance. Mabel\u2019s Simple Life,\u201d \u201cMabel and Beta, VHS (Hi-Fi stereo). $79.95. Bill Cosby, Himself. Color. Cos By Bruno Barreto. 105 min. 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Opposing forces fight Barbara Bach, Bryan Brown, to play \u201cJohn Doe\u201d in publicity cam\u00ac to save wild mustangs. 102 min. Tracey Ullman, Ralph Richardson. paign. By Frank Capra. 123 min. Partners in Crime: The Crack- (G) Beta, VHS. $49.95. Media. Rock star discovers master tapes Beta, VHS. $19.95. Silver. ler. Color. James Warwick, Fran\u00ac from his new album have been cesca Annis. Tommy and Tup\u00ac The Sailor Who Fell from stolen. Music performances in\u00ac Mommie Dearest. Color. 1981. pence track down forgers. 51 min. Grace with the Sea. Color. clude \u201cYesterday,\u201d \u201cHere, There Faye Dunaway, Diana Scarwid, Beta, VHS. $24.95. Pacific. 1976. Kris Kristofferson, Sara and Everywhere,\u201d \u201cEleanor Rig\u00ac Steve Forrest, Howard da Silva, Miles. Merchant seaman, widow by,\u201d \u201cFor No-One,\u201d \u201cThe Long Mara Hobel, Rutanya Alda, Harry Penny Serenade. B&W. 1941. seek pleasure and sanctuary in and Winding Road,\u201d \u201cNo More Goz. 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Masayoshi Takanaka plays 8 selec\u00ac Super Stars of the Super tions, including \u201cBlue Lagoon,\u201d Bowls. Color. 1984. Profiles each \u201cReady to Fly,\u201d at various sport game\u2019s MVP, outstanding players. resorts. Beta, VHS (Hi-Fi stereo). 50 min. Beta, VHS. $39.95. NFL. $24.95. Paramount. video 73 Taking My Turn. Color. 1984. Cissy Houston, Margaret Whiting. A story about aging. 87 min. Beta, VHS (Hi-Fi stereo). $39.95. Pacific. Till the Clouds Roll By. Color. 1946. Lena Horne, Judy Garland, Frank Sinatra, Cyd Charisse, Gower Champion, Dinah Shore,","MYRNALOY From the Terrace. Color. 1960. Beta, VHS. $79.95. CBS\/Fox. show business. Songs include COLLECTOR Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, \u201cMammy,\u201d \u201cToot Toot Tootsie.\u201d Myma Loy, Ina Balin, Leon Ames, The Jazz Singer. B&W. 1927. A1 By Alan Crosland. 88 min. Beta, Ants. Color. 1977. Robert Fox- Elizabeth Allen, Barbara Eden, Jolson, Mary McAvoy, Warner VHS. $59.98.\/CED. $29.98. worth, Suzanne Somers, Lynda George Grizzard. Poor boy\u2019s rise Oland, William Demarest, Myma CBS\/Fox. Day George, Myma Loy. Ants be\u00ac to financial and social success. Loy, Eugenie Besserer, Otto come kiUers. 88 min. Beta (Hi-Fi). Lederer. Cantor\u2019s son goes into Just Tell Me What You Want. VHS (stereo). $49.95. U.S.A. Color. 1980. Ali McGraw, Alan King, Myma Loy, Keenan Wynn, The Bachelor and the Bobby Tony Roberts. Saving a movie stu\u00ac Soxer. B&W. 1947. Cary Grant, dio. 113 min. (R) Beta, VHS. Myma Loy, Shirley Temple, Rudy $39.98 (reissue). Warner. Vallee. Playboy wines and dines girlfriend\u2019s teen-age sister. 95 Mr. Blandings Builds His min. Beta, VHS. $59.95. Dream House. B&W. 1948. Blackhawk.\/$34.95. Nostalgia. Cary Grant, Myma Loy, Melvyn Douglas, Sharyn Moffet, Connie The End. Color. 1978. Burt Marshall, Louise Beavers. 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On any one crite\u00ac because there is usual\u00ac rion you can rank the performance of a ly a winner, and of EDITORS group of like objects, but what weight is course the best is what given to each criterion is a very personal we all want. But what matter indeed. is the best? If you\u2019ve Test signals were supplied by an indus\u00ac ever watched one of trial-level B&K 1260 NTSC generator and a consumer-level Pioneer LD-1100 Laser- TEST VIEWthose beauty pageants where the contes\u00ac tants are judged by numerical scores, Vision player. We chose those signals be\u00ac like us, you\u2019ve probably disagreed with the TOP-END cause of their repeatability and high qual\u00ac result. Well, we have discussed the idea of ity. We used test patterns from both a shootout between monitors or monitor\/ sources and program material from the LV receivers here at VIDEO. Now we\u2019ve bit\u00ac MONITORS player. The criteria on which we rated ten the bullet and done it\u2014and performance were: picture sharpness, pleased enough with the results to consid\u00ac black level, accuracy of color, range of er doing more such tests in the months tones within the picture, how well the auto ahead. color circuit worked, ease of control oper\u00ac We assembled the best of the monitors ation, and body design. we have tested over the last two years or so. Our initial require\u00ac What follows are our individual comments. We hope they help ments were that contestants should be 25- or 26-inch models that you to understand whyyow have to be the final judge of what is best have been \u201cVideotest\u201d-ed. In alphabetical order, the models we for your needs. compared were: Jensen AVS-3250 monitor (\u201cVideotests,\u201d April \u2014Lancelot Braithwaite, Technical Editor 1983), Proton 602M monitor (March 1984), RCA FKC2600 moni\u00ac tor\/receiver (March 1985), and Sony 25-XBR monitor\/receiver The four units we \u201ceye-tested\u201d scored fairly high on overall (February 1985). We\u2019ve excerpted our \u201cVideotest\u201d results and color quality. My personal choices were the Proton (from a signal ratings for each monitor, below. You\u2019ll notice that all received generator) and the Sony (from an actual picture, in this case an LV excellent ratings. High quality is taken for granted in this test\u2014we disc). In both instances, both TVs were superior to the other just wanted to give our personal preferences for the best of the two, which came in an almost equally distant third. best. We asked our panel the question \u201chow well does auto color For years we\u2019ve used a Sony KV-2501 monitor as part of our work?\u201d\u2014which was construed to mean how good are the factory viewing-room system. Since we all knew it well, we brought it in presets? In most cases, very good. Most manufacturers strive for as a benchmark. Though it did qualify as a competitor on the two excellence in resolution and a happy balance in tint and tonal range; criteria for entry, even Sony concedes that the XBR series outper\u00ac after all, they don\u2019t know whether you\u2019re viewing vibrant land\u00ac forms the Profeel series, so we didn\u2019t think of it as a competitor. scapes or flushed faces on soap operas. So when it came to Only one qualifying monitor wasn\u2019t there: the NEC C25-900A. In viewing fleshtones, I could not have tweaked the Sony any better many ways it is quite close to the Jensen that we included, so we than the preset. The faces looked so real it was nearly frightening. don\u2019t think that we short-changed NEC. On the other hand, I preferred the Jensen\u2019s brightness for white The judges were our New York-based editors: Doug Garr, crystal artworks and the RCA for bronze sculptures. Editor; Richard Jaccoma, Managing Editor; Mark Fleischmann, I felt the Sony was the handsomest of all designs, but I\u2019m a Associate Editor; William Wolfe, Assistant Editor; and myself, genuine sucker for the modem high-tech look. One thing that Technical Editor. We chose that crew because we have often annoyed me about all but the Jensen: the controls are either in discussed the \u201cwhat\u2019s best\u201d question. When they\u2019ve asked me, inconvenient locations or hard to use. Ever since the advent of they\u2019ve usually claimed 1 never give them a straight answer. We all remote control, companies have neglected this aspect of TV prepared our ratings separately and reported on them separately. design. Bring back dial volume, I say. I haven\u2019t seen the others. There is one thing that I did weasel out \u2014Doug Garr","ness. And I should note that I have based all my judgments much more on the pic\u00ac tures viewed from an LV video source than on the images from a signal generator\u2014 since I spend only a small part of each viewing day staring at test patterns. And finally, in the area of body design I alone amongst the editors rated Jensen the highest. One editor thought it \u201clooks like a coffin, \u201d but I found its 1950s-futuristic look clean, fanciful, and pleasingly Jetson- esque. -Richard Jaccoma Photos by Robert, On picture sharpness ranking the com\u00ac petitors is easy: Sony XBR, Proton, RCA DATA Screen size: 25 inches, measured di\u00ac Dimensia, and Jensen. That ranking held Date of Videotest: December 1984 agonally (square-cornered tube) for both generator patterns and for pro\u00ac Suggested retail price: $1195, monitor; gram material. $199.95, SU-171 pedestal; $149.95, SU- RESULTS & RATINGS 172 cabinet (not shown) Horizontal resolution (picture sharp\u00ac On accuracy of color I waffle. We used Dimensions: 21-5\/8 x 27-5\/8 x 18-7\/8 ness): 400 lines, bandpass at CRT 5MHz three subcriteria to arrive at a single inches (h\/w\/d), monitor; 16-5\/8 x 21-3\/4 x Video S\/N (snowiness, luminance): rating: intensity, vibrancy (color), and tint 18-1\/8 inches, pedestal 54-l-dB at input to green gun (hue). My final rating (because we couldn\u2019t Weight: 99.25 lbs., without speakers or Accuracy of colors: excellent leave any blanks) was XBR, RCA, Proton, pedestal; speakers, approximately 3.4 lbs. Overall picture quality: excellent and Jensen in that order. I still have mis\u00ac each; pedestal, approximately 33 lbs. Overall performance: excellent givings. My final choices were based on the ability to get the most pleasing fleshtones. Our video beauty pageant helped me re\u00ac inflections. \/Ml of which made it even more On other material the RCA and Proton member something I (and most people) impressive when we found areas of exchange places. spend lots of time forgetting: a video image agreement. The Sony XBR was the hands- is just an image, and not reality itself. down winner in most categories, and I On reproducing the deepest black level That\u2019s not a man biting a dog you\u2019re looking rated it highest in picture sharpness, color without compromising the other picture at, it\u2019s an electronically produced image of accuracy, tonal range, auto color control, characteristics, the order was Proton, Jen\u00ac a man biting a dog, a picture and, in the and ease of control. Of course that last sen, RCA, and XBR. Going almost hand in most elementary sense, a work of art. As category is really impossible to judge fairly hand with that was what we nicknamed such, video pictures are subject to the in a single afternoon\u2014one really has to live range of tones. (You probably think of that whims of individual taste and visual pref\u00ac with a piece of equipment for a good long as contrast.) There the order was Proton, erence. while to pass informed judgment on its RCA, Jensen, and XBR. Remember, ergonomic virtues. I will be pleased to though, that many monitors have a Picture And boy, were they ever. As we viewed volunteer my services if Sony will volun\u00ac control that modifies contrast, color inten\u00ac the various monitors, I was amazed at how teer its XBR. sity, and brightness together. Judging often I heard one editor sputter to another, those two characteristics was relatively \\\"What? You think this color\u2019s better than I was also impressed with Proton\u2019s per\u00ac easy. that? You think that picture\u2019s better than formance in most categories (I rated it a this?\\\" Or words to that effect, always strong second) although I was surprised to Then came the ease-of-controls ques\u00ac uttered with clear, \u201cWhat\u2019re you? Crazy?\u201d find that Jensen passed it in picture sharp\u00ac tion. That was tough because some of the competitors were monitors with no re\u00ac mote-control capability, some were moni\u00ac tor\/receivers with remotes (and even re\u00ac mote control of picture characteristics), and the RCA was the heart of the Dimensia system, with lots of system-control capa\u00ac bility. As pure monitors I favor the ones with continuous control of picture charac\u00ac teristics: the Proton, Jensen, and RCA over the XBR, which has electronically stepped settings. Within those groups the Proton and Jensen beat the RCA because their controls are bigger and easier to ad\u00ac just. I liked the XBR\u2019s stepped controls more than others I\u2019ve tried\u2014the XBR has smaller steps than is usual. The XBR permits you to control the picture characteristics from the remote, and that makes it convenient for casual viewing. I give the XBR the edge because of its smaller steps and ability to alter its basic color temperature from the remote. The RCA does not offer control of picture characteristics from its remote control\u2014 but if used in a Dimensia system, it offers so much control of the system that it is without equal. So on overall convenience the RCA edges out the XBR.","DATA RESULTS & RATINGS most versatile overall performer, though it Date of Videotest: December 1983 Horizontal resolution (picture sharp\u00ac topped my ratings list only in picture sharp\u00ac Suggested retail price: $1050 ness): approximately 400 lines ness (chart and picture tests) and color Dimensions: 23-3\/4 x 26 x 19-3\/4 inches Video S\/N (snowiness, luminance): accuracy (picture only). Choosing for (h\/w\/d) 50dB at CRT second place was tough, but Proton won Weight: 75 lbs. Accuracy of colors: excellent out as the best overall performer\u2014though Screen size: 25 inches, measured di\u00ac Overall picture quality: excellent it topped only one list, range of tones (pic\u00ac agonally Overall performance: excellent ture). RCA\u2019s Dimensia was next, and Jen\u00ac sen took up the rear. Each of the last three was a more idiosyncratic set than the Sony. Proton was the least bright and had a mod\u00ac erate tendency toward blue\u2014a tendency that was pronounced to a fault in the Jen\u00ac sen. The RCA Dimensia went in the oppo\u00ac site direction: its tendency toward red en\u00ac hanced warm colors and, oddly, left reds themselves (such as an apple in a fruit bowl) looking flat and one-dimensional. The Jensen had the characteristic of being almost painfully bright. For longterm view\u00ac ing and for me in particular that spells trouble. I preferred the restraint of the Proton and the RCA, though the XBR was comfortably balanced. The Sony did relatively poorly in the chart tests; it was the pictures that made it shine, and it was the color prejudices of the other three in particular that did \u2019em in. The XBR was sensitive to color nuance, almost painterly, and much less noisy than the others. It made nearly everything look good. Not unexpectedly, Dimensia ex\u00ac celled at warm-toned scenes and Proton (much more often) at cool ones. Since my color prejudice tends toward blue, I found Proton\u2014with its fine black-level perfor\u00ac mance thrown in\u2014consistently better. The Jensen ran last in most tests, though it was reasonably viewable in most of the On body design my ranking is the XBR when used on its optional pedestal, Proton, RCA, and Jensen. By itself without the pedestal the Sony would drop to third posi\u00ac tion with the remainder of the order un\u00ac changed. Auto color seemed to work best on the XBR, followed by RCA, Proton, and Jen\u00ac sen. On the overall rating I would choose the XBR in first place, then the Proton, RCA, and Jensen. \u2014Lancelot Braithwaite Viewing four monitors at once\u2014five if you count the Sony Profeel we used for reference\u2014seemed a bewildering experi\u00ac ence at first, but for this viewer it ultimate\u00ac ly established two things beyond doubt. First, individual models have characteris\u00ac tics of their own that make them good at some things and only fair to poor at others. Yes, there is such a thing as a \u201cgood\u201d unit or a \u201cbad\u201d one, but within a group of moni\u00ac tors of the same relative sophistication such value judgments can be misleading. Second, measurements and test charts aren\u2019t worth a hill of beans by themselves; they can only enhance the understanding one acquires by looking at pictures. Any\u00ac way, here are my observations\/impres\u00ac sions. The Sony XBR was clearly the finest and","picture tests. I found the RCA\u2019s top-mounted controls superior to the rest, albeit narrow (but I\u2019ve little fingers). I also appreciated Jensen\u2019s relatively wide knobs, though like the rest it mounted them at bottom, which is not the best place for them. I disliked the Sony\u2019s newfangled control arrangement. Proton\u2019s simple lines and basic black color\u00ac ing constitute the most elegantly simple and functional-for-viewing body design. (Note: I use the Proton 600M 19-incher at home and suspect I would prefer it to all the units tested save\u2014-perhaps\u2014the Sony XBR.) \u2014Mark Fleischmann This comparison proves that when pick\u00ac DATA RESULTS & RATINGS ing a monitor, sacrifice and compromise Date of Videotest: December 1984 Horizontal resolution (picture sharp\u00ac are inescapable. If you\u2019re going to the trou\u00ac Suggested retail price: $1300 ness): 500 lines ble and expense of looking at monitors in Weight: approximately 100 lbs. the first place\u2014and not just ordering the Dimensions: 21-3\/4 x 25-1\/4 x 18-11\/16 Video S\/N (snowiness, luminance): 53dB all-American household name brand from a inches (h\/w\/d) Accuracy of colors: wide range with auto catalogue\u2014you\u2019re probably most con\u00ac Screen size: 26 inches, measured di\u00ac color, stable cerned with picture quality. But if you think agonally Overall picture quality: excellent the tube with the best picture is an Overall performance: very good eyesore, or if its controls are difficult to use, your final decision may be to sacrifice the picture for a set you can live with. Approached from this angle. I\u2019d have a hard time choosing between the Sony and the Proton. Don\u2019t discount the others, though: each has strong points you might consider important. Also note that the following comments were most often based on the set\u2019s ability to reproduce pictures, not test patterns of color bars. The hands-down winner in the picture- quality categories was the Sony. It pro\u00ac duced the finest picture\u2014the real job of a iRGAFK3 2600 monitor\u2014rating tops in picture sharpness greens were airy but not hazy. It has a i'DIMENSIA' and accuracy of color, and second in range straightforward design and is easy to oper\u00ac of tones. Its ability to render natural, ate since its controls are relatively large DATA radiant fleshtones brought a chorus of and well-spaced. Date of Videotest: January 1983 ooohs and aaahs from the assembled edi\u00ac Suggested retail price: $1030 tors. But I was not fond of either its styling Not quite in the cellar was the RCA. Wmensions: 22-1\/2 x 24-7\/8 x 20-5\/8 or controls. Having clickstopped picture- Though I admired its high-tech micro\u00ac ^ches (h\/w\/d) adjustment controls seems a crime, since wave-oven look, it excelled only in repro\u00ac Weight: 92 lbs. the finest of fine tuning cannot be done. ducing reds and browns\u2014and these often kreen size: 25 inches, measured di- If Sony\u2014and the other tube manufactur\u00ac out-of-scale. Its controls were nearly im\u00ac ^onally ers\u2014are looking for the ultimate in con\u00ac possible to adjust because they were trols, they should consider replacing the placed so close together. Considering the lESULTS & RATINGS clickstopped ones with rocker switches estimable capabilities of the Dimensia sys\u00ac forizontol resolution (picture sharp- that flow, rather than hop, from extreme to tem makes the RCA more attractive. less): 400 lines extreme. Having these picture-adjust op\u00ac Being able to control an entire audio\/video fideo S\/N (snowiness, luminance): tions on the remote certainly is a step in the system from a single remote is a dream lOdB right direction, though. And while a com\u00ac come true, though a costly one and not Accuracy of colors: excellent parison of the audio was not part of our without limitations\u2014total interactivity is )verall picture quality: excellent test, it should be noted that the Sony\u2019s yours only if you have the entire Dimensia )verall performance: excellent detachable two-way speakers produced system. the best sound of the four. Whenever possible, however, hook your monitor to The Jensen bottomed out in the overall your stereo system\u2014you\u2019ll never switch ranking, though it finished well in the black- back. level category and had the largest\u2014and therefore easiest to use\u2014controls. The The Proton was a solid second. It led the gap in picture quality between it and the pack in the black-level and range of tones Sony is significant. Still, it excelled when categories, and placed just behind the Sony called upon to reproduce fine details\u2014like in the other important picture-quality the foamy \u201chead\u201d on a glass of beer or areas. Especially pleasing was the Proton\u2019s droplets of water on pieces of fruit. tendency toward a light-toned\u2014though not bright\u2014picture. Reds and oranges Not surprisingly, the ranking for auto were rich but not overwhelming; blues and color mirrors that of general picture quality: Sony, Proton, RCA, and Jensen. \u2014William Wolfe O","JOURNEY TO THE 1I CENTER OF THE EARTH. !| Sink deep. \\\\ Down volcanic pathways f few have dreamed of. i Sink to the heart of this r\u00a731m of Wonder, with James \\\"iVlason as your companion. And the mind of Jules Verne as your guide. Or soar. FIVE WEEKS IN A BALLOON. Now let yourself soar. You\u2019re in a race to plant the British flag on the other side of Africa. It\u2019s the nineteenth century, and there are no highways. No Land Rovers. So take Jules Verne\u2019s hand. Turn up the flame. And gently rise... |one of the ten most requested films for video release. ' Soon on videocassette in VMS and Beta Hi-Fi Stereo.","PLAYHOUSE * V I D E O\\\" FAMILY ENTERTAINMENT YOU CAN TRUST.","","OUR TH F ANNUAL year (although it\u2019s likely that orgive the would-be PORTABLE number will shrink next year video shooter for his be\u00ac after the new VHS camcorders wilderment at the glut of VCR options that confront him this REPORT make their mark), chances are ex\u00ac summer. When he walks into a tremely good that there\u2019s a machine on video store he\u2019ll find the traditional the list that more than suits your needs choice between Beta and VHS further and budget. muddied by new choices between two-piece With full-size VHS camcorders just around camera\/recorder setup or one-piece camcorder, the comer (and probably already in the stores by between half-inch BetaA^HS tape and the new 8mm the time you read this), some readers may be format, between Hi-Fi stereo and split-track stereo or wondering what advantages there are in buying one mono sound. of the \u201cconventional\u201d portables on our chart. The Influencing his choice will be the ever-shifting trends of reasons are many. For starters, in many cases you can buy manufacturers and retailers\u2014especially the camcorder\u2019s rise a portable VCR today that, feature-for-feature, can match the and, already in one of the two half-inch formats, its dominance. performance and convenience of the most sophisticated table In the Beta format camcorders already outnumber portable VCRs. model. Consider the menu of features available on many of these In the VHS format the camcorder is still the new kid on the portables: direct-access cable-compatible tuners, multi-event block\u2014it took VHS designers awhile to figure out how to fit that programming, on-screen programming, multi-speed recording, big cassette into a one-piece unit without resorting to mini\u00ac 2\/3\/4 or 5-video-head designs, noiseless still frame and frame cassettes and adapters\u2014but whether VHS Movie will gallop advance, noiseless variable-speed slow motion, reverse play, ahead of the huge pack of VHS portables in another year\u2019s time high-speed picture search, cordless remote control, linear stereo remains to be seen. recording\/playback with noise reduction, VHS Hi-Fi, linear-track This month\u2019s survey will cover the tried-and-true battery-oper\u00ac audio dub, sound-on-sound recording, video dub, video insert ated portables that have prevailed since the late \u201970s. Look for a edit with audio, clean-cut \u201ctransition\u201d editing, one-touch \u201cinstant\u201d separate treatment of the newer Beta, VHS, and 8mm camcord\u00ac or \u201cexpress\u201d recording, hassle-free \u201cdocking\u201d tuners, and bat\u00ac ers next month, along with news about the two-piece 8mm VCRs tery-sized AC adapters. from Canon and Sanyo. Everything else\u2014one-piece, two-piece, That\u2019s more than enough to give most of the table models a mn dockable, and convertible VCRs\u2014appears in this month\u2019s chart as for their money. Another advantage to a full-featured portable is long as it uses a full-size VHS or Beta cassette and runs on battery that if and when you do decide to buy a color video camera (more as well as AC power. on them next month), you can select just about any camera and plug it in. There are some electrical incompatibilities between the Beta and Lots of VHS VCRs and cameras made by one company and those produced by Of the 43 machines listed, all but two\u2014Toshiba\u2019s V-X34 and another GVC versus Hitachi, for example), but in many cases you Aiwa\u2019s AV-50M\u2014are in the VHS format. That\u2019s not surprising can overcome these mismatches using an optional adapter cable. considering that, with the appearance of Betamovie last year, Shop carefully though, since many adapter cables allow you to most of the other remaining Beta-format manufacturers have run a camera with a 10-pin VHS connector on a Beta portable fitted dropped their earlier two-piece portables in favor of the Beta- with a 14-pin connector and still have the tape start and stop on movie camcorder. Sanyo, NEC, Sony, and Toshiba all sell Beta- cue. It\u2019s difficult to make adapters that allow all of a camera\u2019s movie, but only Toshiba still makes a separate portable, the special remote-control features to work on another brand of V-X34. The other Beta machine, Aiwa\u2019s AV-50M, is unique in camera, so test the combination before you buy it. other respects as well. Like the Sharp VC-363 and Mitsubishi 5 HS-710 (both VHS) it has a built-in (rather than separate) tuner, Getting Systematic \\\\ though you can operate it in the field from a rechargeable battery. Another advantage of the two-piece systems: their modular ? It\u2019s also a Beta Hi-Fi recorder, but only when run off its AC-bound design means you don\u2019t have to buy more video equipment than : Hi-Fi adapter\/charger. you really need. If you never intend to record off-air pro^amming, VHS Hi-Fi, which was just getting off the ground at this time last or plan on doing so only rarely, why pay for an exotic random- J year, has expanded into the portable field as well with models by access tuner? Many portables sold by Magnavox, Panasonic, 5 Panasonic, General Electric, Magnavox, Canon, Quasar, and Quasar, Sylvania, G.E., and Canon are really the same machine : RCA. With more than 40 portable VHS V(i)Rs to choose from this supplied in a different configuration; some with just a simple AC BY RODERICK WOODOOCK Vldao 83","Panasonic PV-9600 adapter, others with standard pushbutton tuners, still others with the latest in solid- state direct-access tuners. A close look at our chart, plus the literature and spec sheets your dealer gets from the manufac\u00ac turer, will help you determine which \u201csys\u00ac tem\u201d represents the best value for you. Note that, in many cases, one portable VCR is the same as another but is equipped with a different type tuner or no tuner at all. The simplest package generally con\u00ac sists of a portable VCR and a plug-in AC adapter that resembles a battery but lets you power the unit from a wall socket. The cheapest tuners generally offer only con- CHARTING PORTABLE VCRs-VHS VCR MAKE & MODEL SUGGESTED LIST VCR DIMENSIONS\u2019; SPEEDS VIDEO TUNER\/TIMER (Model; type; (Manufacturer) PRICE WEIGHT HEADS programmability; dimensions\u2019; weight)\u2019 Canon VR-30A $830, VCR; $425, 23\/4 X 8Vi6 X SP, LP, SLP 4 \\\\\/T-30A: 107 channel, 14 presets, 4 (Matsushita) VT-30A Tuner; 103\/e; 7 lbs. event\/14 day; 4V4 x 9 x 10; 7 lbs. 4 oz. VT-40A: 139 channel, direct access, $520, VT-40A Tuner 8 event\/14 day; 23\/4 x 82\/16 x 103\/8; 4.4 lbs. Canon VR-40A N.A. 3Vi6 X 8Vi6 X SP,LP,SLP 4 VT-50A: dockable; 139 channel, direct (Matsushita) 103\/8; 7 lbs. access, 8 event\/14 day; 42\/16 x 8\u20193\/i6 X 14; 7.5 lbs. GE1CVP-5022X Open list 3V2 X 8V2 X IOV2; SP,LP,EP 2 82 channel, 12 presets, 1 event\/1 day; (Matsushita) 5.7 lbs. 3V2 X 6 X 10V2;7lbs, GE1CVP-5024X Open list Z>ha X 8'\/2 X 102\/5; SP, LP, EP 2 107 channel, 12 presets, 4 event\/14 (Matsushita) 6.5 lbs. w\/Battery day; 22\/10 x 8V2 x 10%; 7 lbs. GE1CVP-5026X Open list 22\/10 X 8V2 X 102\/5; SP,LP, EP 4 139 channel, direct access, 8 event\/14 (Matsushita) Open list 6.7 lbs. w\/Battery day; 22\/10 x 8V2 x 10%; 5.1 lbs. GE1CVP-5028X 22\/10 X 8V2 X 10%; SP, LP, EP 4 Dockable; 139 channel, direct access, (Matsushita) 6.7 lbs. 8 event\/14 day; 22\/10 x 8V2 x 10%; 5.1 lbs. Hitachi VT-3P $1195w\/Tuner 33\/8 X 10 X 103\/8; SP, LP,EP $1095 w\/Tuner 8 lbs. SP, LP, EP 3 105 channel, 12 presets, 6 event\/14 Hitachi VT-5P $1495 w\/Tuner SP,LP,EP day; 33\/8 x 10 x 103\/8; 7 lbs. 33^ X 10 X 103\/8; Hitachi VT-8P 8 lbs. 3 105 channel, 12 presets, 6 event\/14 day; 33\/8 x 10 x 103\/8;7lbs. 33\/8 X 10 X 103\/8; 8 lbs. 5 133 channel, direct access, 7 event\/14 day; 33\/8 x 10 x 103\/8;7lbs. JVCHR-SIOOU $1095 w\/Tuner 33\/16 X 8Vie X 82\/8; \u2018 Records SP, EP; 4 139 channel, direct access, 8 event\/14 (HR-SIOUVCRand 5.3 lbs. plays SP, LP,EP day;3\u2019\/i6 x 8\u20193\/i6 x 10; 6.7 lbs. TU-S10U Tuner) JC Penney 5110 $899.95 w\/Tuner 3V2 X 8V2 X IOV2; SP,LP,SLP 2 82 channel, 12 presets, 1 event\/1 day; (Matsushita) 8.25 lbs. 3Vz X 8V2 X 10'\/2; 5,75 lbs. JC Penney 5115 $1399.95 w\/Tuner 23\/4 X 8V2 X lOVa; 5.75 SP.LP.SLP 4 139 channel, direct access, 8 event\/14 (Matsushita) lbs. day; 23\/4 x 8\u2019\/2 x lO\u2019\/z; 5.75 tbs. \u2019Dimensions are height by width by depth, in inches. ^Some Tuner\/Timers are available only with their companion VCRs. In these instances, most manufacturers do not provide separate model numbers for the Tuner\/Timer, and this is reflected in the chart. Type (Convertible, Dockable, or Built-in) indicates that the Tuner\/Timer is not a standard, stand-alone unit.","Olympus VC-106 ventional VHF\/UHF reception and 12 pushbutton \u201cpresets\u201d that can be custom\u00ac ized for different channels. More expen\u00ac sive tuners have more versatile \u201ccable compatible\u201d tuners that receive up to 107 channels, but with only 12 presets. The most sophisticated tuners are the \u201cdirect access\u201d type, which display the channel selected with an illuminated LED readout. The channel number itself can be keyed in from the remote control using a ten digit keypad. In many cases, a particular VCR is sold only with one type of tuner and both come packed in the same box. Other companies. FREEZE FRAME SINGLE FRAME SLOW MOTION VISIBLE REMOTE OTHER FEATURES Yes (SP & SLP) ADVANCE PICTURE CONTROL Yes (SP&SLP. V4th to SEARCH LCD multi-function display; audio dub; Yes (SP & SLP) Yes (SP & SLP) Vsoth) 26-function video dub; memory search; tape-remaining 5XSP,9X LP, wireless Yes(EP) 15XSLP display; sharpness control; Yes (EP) sound-on-sound; Dolby stereo Yes (SP & SLP) Yes (SP & SLP, V4th to 5X SP, 9X LP, 26-function VHS Hi-Fi; LCD multi-function display; Yes (EP) Vaoth) 15XSLP wireless linear audio dub; video dub; memory No 9XEP 4-function wired search; tape-remaining display; (optional) sharpness control OTR\u20142 hours; multi-mode display; audio dub Yes(EP) Yes (EP, Vsth) 9X EP 14-functk)n Audio dub; video dub wireless Yes (SP & EP) Yes (SP & EP) Yes (SP & EP, V4th to 5XSP,9XLP, 26-tunction Dolby stereo; audio dub; video dub; Yes (SP & EP) Yes (SP & EP) wireless 60-minute power backup; multi-mode Vaoth) 15XSP Yes (EP) Yes(EP) display; tape-remaining indicator Yes (EP) Yes (EP) Yes (SP & EP) Yes (SP & EP) Yes (SP&EP, V4ttito 5X SP,9X LP, 26-functton Audio dub; video dub; Doiby stereo; Yes (SP & EP) Yes (SP & EP) Vsoth) 15XEP wireless tape-remaining indicator; multi-mode Yes (SLP) Yes (SLP) Yes (SP & SLP) Yes (EP, Vsth) 5XSP, 15XEP 11-function wired display; 60-minute power backup; auto rewind Yes (EP, Vsth) Instant Record Timer (IRT); single-cable Yes (SP&EP, V4th to connection; sound-on-sound; video dub; Vsoth) audio dub Yes (SP&EP, V4th to Vaoth) 5XSP, 15XEP 16-function Instant Record Timer (IRT); audio dub; wireless video dub; sound-on-sound; LCD-mode display 5XSP, 15X EP 19-function Linear stereo w\/noise reduction; wireless sound-on-sound; reverse play; multi-mode display; timer backup; Instant Record Timer (IRT); audio dub; video dub 7X, SP & EP 26-function Audio dub; video dub; 60-minute power wireless backup: reverse play; forward\/reverse memory counter No 9XSLP 4-function wired One Touch Record (OTR)\u20142 hours; auto rewind Yes (SP&SLP) Yes (SP & SLP, V4th to 5X SP, 15XSLP 26-function Dolby stereo; audio dub; video dub Vsoth) wireless","Toshiba V-X34 however, separate their portables and tun\u00ac ers into components so you can customize your system. We\u2019ve indicated which are which in our chart, along with prices for each item where applicable. In earlier years, some portable units were unpopular because of the hassle of connecting and reconnecting them after every trip outdoors. Most portable manu\u00ac facturers, following RCA\u2019s lead with its \u201cconvertible\u201d design of two years ago, have now adopted hassle-free \u201cdockable\u201d designs: you attach or disconnect the VCR VCR MAKE & MODEL SUGGESTED LIST VCR DIMENSIONS\u2019; SPEEDS VIDEO HEADS TUNER\/TIMER (Model: type; (Manufacturer) PRICE WEIGHT SP, LP, SLP 2 programmability; dimensions\u2019; MagnavoxVR-8474SL $849 w\/AC adapter 3V2 X 81\/2 X 101\/2; 7 lbs. 2 weight)\u2019\u2019 (Matsushita) 4 None $899 w\/Tuner 3% X 8W X 10ife7Tbs. SP, LP, SLP MagnavoxVR-8475SL 107 channel, 12 presets, 1 event\/1 (Matsushita) $1099 w\/Battery 2% X 81\/2 X 101\/2; SP,LP,SLP day; 3% x 8% x 10%; 5.9 lbs. 7 lbs. w\/Adapter MagnavoxVR-8484SL None (Matsushita) Magnavox VR-8485SL $1299 wfTuner 23\/4 X 8ife X 10%; SP, LP, SLP 4 139 channel, direct access, (Matsushita) 7 lbs. w\/Battery 8 event\/14 day; 23\/4 x 8% x 10%; 6.4 lbs. Magnavox VR-8486SL N.A. 31\/16 X 8^\/16 X 103\/8; 7 SP,LP,SLP (Matsushita) lbs. 5oz. 4 Dockable; 139 channel, direct access, 8 event\/14 day; 43\/8 x 89i6 x 14; weight n.a. Minolta 770S $1015, V-770S VCR; 33\/8 X 10 X 103\/8; 8 lbs. SP. LP, EP 5 133 channel, direct access, (Hitachi) 7 event\/14 day; 33\/B x 10 x 103\/8; $400, T-770S Tuner w\/Battery 7 lbs. Mitsubishi HS-71 OUR $750 91\/8 X 163\/4 X 53\/16; SP, LP, EP 4 Built-in; 105 channel, 16 presets, 3 event\/14 day 15.4 lbs. w\/Battery and 4 139 channel, direct access, Tuner 8 event\/14 day; 23\/4 x 89i6 x 103\/8; 4.4 lbs. Olympus VC-105 $995, VC-105 VCR; 23\/4 X 8916 X 103\/a; 7 SP, LP, SLP (Matsushita) $485, VR-206 lbs. SP, SP, SLP 4 139 channel, direct access, Tuner 8 event\/14 day; 49i6 x 8\u20193\/i6 x 14; Olympus VC-106 31\/16 X 89i6 X 103\/8; 7 7.5 lbs. (Matsushita) $1165, VC-106 VCR; lbs. N.A.,VR-208 Tuner 2 82 channel, 12 presets, 1 event\/1 day; 39i6 X 89i6 X lOVo; weight n.a. Panasonic PV-5800 $950w\/Tuner 39i6 X 89ib X 101\/2; 7 SP, LP, SLP (Matsushita) lbs. 4 Optional Panasonic PV-8110 $1000 w\/AC adapter 23\/4 X 89i6 X 103\/8; 7 SP, LP,SLP 4 139 channel, direct access, 8 event\/14 (Matsushita) $1350w\/Tuner lbs. w\/Battery SP, LP. SLP day; x SVie x 103\/8; weight n.a. Panasonic PV-8500 29io X 8% X 103\/10; (Matsushita) 7.1 lbs. w\/Battery 4 PV-A860:139 channel, direct access, 8 event\/14 day; 43\/8 x 8\u20193\/i6 x Panasonic PV-8600 N.A, 23\/4 X 89i6 X 103\/8; 7 SP, LP,SLP 14; PV-A820 4 event\/14 day timer also available (PV-8100 VCR and lbs. w\/Battery PV-A860 Tuner) (Matsushita)","Minolta V770S from the tuner in one quick operation. There are no cords to worry about\u2014^just lay the VCR into its bay or next to its companion tuner and the two pieces snap together for in-home operation. Conveni\u00ac ence features like that make today\u2019s por\u00ac tables worthy competitors for the best AC-operated decks. Other features formerly available only on high-priced table models include visual special effects (or SFX for short). But there are differences in the quality of the SFX offered by the different machines. All FREEZE FRAME SINGLE FRAME SLOW MOTION VISIBLE REMOTE OTHER FEATURES Yes (SLP) ADVANCE No PICTURE CONTROL Audio dub; muiti-mode dispiay SEARCH Yes (SLP) 4-function wired 9X SLP Yes (SLP) Yes(SLP) Yes (SLP, Vsth) 9XSLP 4-function wired Audio dub; OTR\u20144 hours; multi-mode Yes (SP & SLP) Yes (SP & SLP) display; auto rewind Yes (SP&SLP, lAth 5XSP,9X LP, to Vsoth) 15XSLP 12-function wired Doiby stereo; audio dub; multi-mode dispiay; forward\/reverse counter memory; auto rewind; tape-remaining indicator Yes (SP & SLP) Yes (SP & SLP) Yes (SP&SLP, V4th 5X SP,9X LP, 26-function Doiby stereo; audio dub; video dub; Yes (SP & SLP) Yes (SP & SLP) to Vsoth) 15XSLP wireless sound-on-sound; forward\/reverse counter memory; tape-remaining indicator; 60-minute power backup; OTR\u20144 hours Yes (SP & SLP, V4th 5XSP,9X LP, 26-function VHS Hi-Fi Dolby stereo; linear audio dub; to Vsoth) 15XSLP wireless video dub; sound-on-sound; tape-remaining indicator; muiti-mode dispiay; OTR\u20144 hours; forward\/reverse counter memory; auto rewind Yes (SP & EP) Yes (SP & EP) Yes (SP&EP, V4thto 5XSP, 15XEP 19-function Stereo w\/noise reduction; Instant Record Yes (SP & EP) No Vaoth) wireless Timer (IRT)\u20144 hours; video dub; audio dub Yes (SP&EP, 1\/2) Yes 13-function Picture control; battery or AC operation; wireiess counter memory; OTR Yes (SP & SLP) Yes (SP & SLP) Yes (SP & SLP, V4th 5XSP, 9XLP, Wired Doiby stereo; video dub; audio dub; Yes (SP & SLP) Yes (SP & SLP) to 1\/30th) 15X SLP multi-mode display; OTR; auto rewind Yes (SP&SLP,i\/4th 5XSP,9X LP, 26-function Dolby stereo; multi-mode dispiay; audio to Vsoth) 15XSLP wireless dub; video dub; auto rewind Yes(SLP) Yes(SLP) No 9XSLP 4-function wired Audio dub; multi-mode display; Yes (SP & SLP) Yes (SP & SLP) OTR\u20142 hours Yes (SP&SLP) Yes (SP & SLP) Yes (SP & SLP, i\/4th Yes (SP & SLP) Yes (SP & SLP) to Vaoth) 125XSP,9XLP, -function wired Video dub; audio dub; muiti-mode \u2022 dispiay; auto rewind Yes (SP & SLP, i\/4th 15XSLP to 1\/30th) 5XSP,9XLP, 17-function Video dub; audio dub; sound-on-sound; Yes (SP & SLP, i\/4th 15XSLP wireless Dolby stereo; multi-mode display; auto to l\/30th) 5XSP,9XLP, 26-function rewind; OTR\u20144 hours 15X SLP wireiess Dolby stereo; audio dub; OTR\u20144 hours; 60-minute power backup video","VCR MAKE & MODEL SUGGESTED LIST VCR DIMENSIONS'; TUNER\/TIMER (Model: type; WEIGHT programmability; dimensions'; (Manufacturer) PRICE SPEEDS VIDEO HEADS SP, LP, SLP weight)' Panasonic PV-9600 $1500 W\/PV-A860 Tuner 3Vi6 X 87\/16 X 10%; 7 SP, LP, EP 4 Dockable; 139 channel, direct access, 8 event\/14 day; 43\/8 x 813\/16 x (Matsushita) lbs. 5oz. 14; weight n.a. Pentax PV-R1000A $995, PV-R1000AVCR; 3% X 10 X 10%; 5 133 channel, direct access, 7 event\/14 day; 33\/e x 10 x 103\/8; 7.7 lbs. (Hitachi) $400, PVU-1000A Tuner 8 lbs. w\/Battery PhilcoV-1728 $899.95 w\/Tuner 3V4 X 8V2 X IOV2; SP, LP, SLP 2 107 channel, 12 presets, 1 event\/1 (Matsushita) 8.6 lbs. SP, LP, SLP day; 31\/4 x 81\/2 x 10%; 5.6 lbs. SP, LP, SLP Quasar VP-5440XQ $839.95 w\/AC adapter 37\/16 X 87\/16 X 10%; 2 None (Matsushita) $979.95 w\/Tuner 7 lbs. 2 107 channel, 12 presets, 1 event\/1 Quasar VP-5442XQ 37\/16 X 87\/16 X IOV2; day; 37\/16 x 59\/16 x lOVz; 5.3 lbs. (Matsushita) 7 lbs. Quasar VP-5740XQ $1399.95 w\/Tuner 2% X 87\/16 X 10%; SP, LP,SLP 4 139 channel, direct access, 8 event\/14 (Matsushita) $1599.95 w\/Tuner 7 lbs. SP,LP,SLP day; dimensions, weight n.a. Quasar VP-5747XE 31\/10 X 87\/16 X 10%; 4 Dockable: 139 channel, direct access, (Matsushita) 7.8 lbs. 8 event\/14 day; 43\/8 x 813\/16 x 14; weight n.a. RCAVKP-170 $899 w\/Tuner 31\/2 X 10 X 10%; SP,LP,SLP (Hitachi) 7.9 lbs. 3 82 channel, 12 presets, 6 event\/14 day; 3% x 10 x 10i\/2;7.7lbs. RCAVKP-900 $1295 3% X 10 X 10%; SP, LP, SLP 5 Convertible; 133 channel, direct (Hitachi) $1495 8 lbs. w\/Battery access, 8 event\/52 weeks; 43\/4 x 17 $950 w\/Tuner X 11%; weight n.a. RCA VKP-950 $899.95 33\/10 X 99\/10 X 103\/10; SP, LP, SLP (Hitachi) $899 w\/Tuner 7 lbs. 5 Convertible; 133 channel, direct access, 8 event\/52 weeks; 43\/4 x 17 Sears 53681 3% X 10 X 10%; SP, LP, EP X 111\/2; 9.75 lbs. (Hitachi) 7 lbs. 3 105 channel, 12 presets, 6 event\/14 Sharp VC-363 IOS\/16 X 143\/16 X SVs; ^ SP, LP, EP day; 31\/2 x 10 x 10V2;5.9lbs. 13.2 lbs. Sylvania VC-4525SL 2 Built-in; 105 channel, 12 presets, (Matsushita) 31\/2 X 8% X 10%; SP, LP, SLP 1 event\/7 day 6 lbs. 11 oz. 2 107 channel, 12 presets, 1 event\/1 day;3\u2019\/2 x 5V2 x IOV2; weight n.a. Sylvania VC-4540SL $1299 w\/Tuner 31\/2 X 23\/4 X lOVa; SP, LP, SLP 4 139 channel, direct access, 8 event\/14 (Matsushita) 6lbs. 4oz. day: 23\/4 x 81\/2 x 10%; 4.25 lbs. Sylvania VC-4545SL $1400 23\/4 X 8% X 10%; SP, LP,SLP 4 139 channel, direct access, 8 event\/14 (Matsushita) N.A. 6.4 lbs. day; 23\/4 x 8V2 x IOV2; weight n.a. Zenith VR-5000 31\/16 X 8V16 X 87\/i; Records SP, EP; 4 136 channel, direct access, 8 event\/14 (JVC) 6 lbs. 10 oz. plays SP, LP, EP day; 3'\/i6 x 8'\/i6 x 87\/8; 6.6 lbs. BETA $950 316\/16 X 13 X 1115\/16; BILBII 3 Built-in; 105 channel, 14 presets, 1 event\/7 day Aiwa AV-50M 13.4 lbs. Toshiba V-X34 $1199 W\/V-X340 Tuner 31\/16 X 73\/8 X 101\/4; BII.BIII 2 105 channel, 12 presets, 8 event\/14 5.3 lbs. day;3Vi6 x m x 12; 6.25 lbs.","FREEZE FRAME SINGLE FRAME SLOW MOTION VISIBLE REMOTE OTHER FEATURES Yes (SP & SLP) ADVANCE PICTURE CONTROL SEARCH VHS Hi-Fi; linear audio dub; video dub; Yes (SP & EP) Yes (SP & SLP) 26-tunction OTR\u20144 hours; multi-mode display; Dolby Yes (SP&SLP, i\/4th to 5XSP,9XLP, 15> wireless Yes (SLP) Yes (SP & EP) stereo; auto rewind \u2019Mh) SLP 19-function wireless Stereo w\/noise reduction; Instant Record Yes (SP & EP. V4th 5XSP,15X EP Timer (IRT)\u20144 hours; video dub to V30th) Yes (SLP) Yes (SLP, Vath) 9XSLP 4-function wired Audio dub; OTR\u20142 hours Yes (SLP) Yes (SLP) No 9XSLP Wired (optional) Audio dub; auto rewind Yes (SLP) Yes (SLP) Yes (SP & SLP) No 9XSLP 4-tunction wired OTR\u20142 hours; audio dub Yes (SP & SLP) Yes (SLP) Yes (SP & SLP) Yes (SP & SLP, V4ttr 5XSP,9X LP, 26-function Dolby stereo; OTR\u20144 hours; video dub; Yes (SP & SLP) Yes (SP & SLP) to Vaolh) 15X SLP wireless audio dub Yes (SP & SLP) Yes (SLP) Yes (SP&SLP, V4th 5XSP,9X LP, 26-tunction VHS Hi-Fi; multi-mode display; linear audio Yes(EP) Yes (SP & SLP) to V30th) 15XSLP wireless dub; video dub; auto rewind; Yes (SP & SLP) OTR\u20144 hours Yes(SLP) Yes (SLP) Wired Yes (EP) Sound-on-sound; audio dub; Express Recording (XPR) Yes (SP&SLP. V4th 5XSP,9XSLP 26-function Audio dub; video dub; stereo w\/noise to Vaoth) wireless with reduction; reverse play; double-speed Yes (SP&SLP, V4tti on-screen display play; remote slow-tracking control to %oth) 5X SP,9XSLP 26-tunction VHS Hi-Fi; linear audio dub; video dub; Yes (EP) wireless with reverse play; double-speed play; remote slow-tracking control on-screen 3XSP,9XEP Wireless N.A. Yes (EP) Yes(EP) No 5X EP 9-tunction wired Audio dub; OTR; auto rewind; battery Yes (SLP) Yes (SLP) Yes (SLP, Vath) 9XSLP 4-function wired or AC operation Yes (SP & SLP) Yes (SP & SLP) Multi-mode display; OTR\u20142 hours; Yes (SP & EP) audio dub Yes (SP & SLP) Yes (SP & SLP, V4th 5XSP, 9X LP, 26-tunction Dolby stereo; audio dub; video dub; to Vaoth) 15XSLP wireless multi-mode display Yes (SP & SLP) Yes (SP&SLP, V4th 5XSP,9X LP, 26-function VHS Hi-Fi; video dub; linear audio dub; Yes (SP & EP) to Vaoth) 15XSLP wireless sound-on-sound; OTR\u20144 hours Yes (SP & EP, 'Mh 7X.SP&EP : 16-function Audio dub; video dub; reverse play; to Vaoth) wireless forward\/reverse memory counter; 60-minute power backup Yes (BII& Bill) Yes (BII&BIII) Yes (1\/2) 15X BII,25XBIII 9-function wired Optional SV-50M Hi-Fi adapter (8.4 lbs.); Yes (BII& Bill) double-speed playback w\/audio; video dub; linear-time readout Yes (BII& Bill, Yes (Vath, forward 11XBII, 17XBIII 14-function Video dub w\/audio insert; audible function forward & reverse) & reverse) wireless w\/wire button feedback; linear-time readout; for field operation reverse play; auto rewind w\/o tuner","the two-head VHS portables, for example, sushita, at least let you search through panies. But\u2014and this is an important but\u2014 I optimize their special effects at the slowest tapes recorded at this speed. Other brands that\u2019s only an advantage for receiving un\u00ac speed. You can scan through tapes re\u00ac \u2014like the JVC, Zenith, and Hitachi-built scrambled channels offered as \u201cbasic\u201d ser\u00ac corded at other speeds (usually SP), but machines\u2014automatically mute (darken the vice. Many cable services resort to special the picture is flawed with lots of noise. screen) if you try to use the special effects converter boxes to decode the scrambled at this speed. In addition, the JVC and signals transmitted along with their pre\u00ac Quality special-effects reproduction at a Zenith decks only record at SP and EP, mium channels, and you\u2019ll need to use the range of speeds requires multiple video\u00ac although they\u2019ll play tapes made on other box to record these channels with your head designs\u2014four heads in VCRs made decks at the LP speed. VCR\u2014invariably on channel 3 or 4. by Matsushita and JVC, five in the machines made by Hitachi and sold by If you plan to buy a portable for use in the The even more sophisticated \u201cdirect ac\u00ac Hitachi itself, RCA, Minolta, and Pentax. home as well as outdoors, it\u2019s a good idea cess\u201d tuners on the most expensive por\u00ac The fifth head on these latter brands is not to look closely at the tuner that comes with tables are at a similar disadvantage in this used for recording\u2014only for generating it. While the simplest tuners can record sort of cable setup. But even for receiving noise-free \u201cdouble azimuth\u201d SFX at the SP any VHF and UHF broadcasts, others premium channels or regular off-air sig\u00ac and EP speeds. Few machines offer clear offer more versatile \u201ccable compatible\u201d nals, the convenience of random-access SFX at the middle-range LP speed, tuners that will let you tune in many of the tuning, called up from a 10-digit keypad on although a few, like those made by Mat\u00ac midband channels favored by cable com\u00ac continued on page 141","With Canon\u2019s new home video s)7stem, your pictures look like network pictures. tures^^ tworkpictoes i\u2019ictures that look broadcast quality, 6X power zoom lens and a new Vz\\\" high-band Saticon\u00ae if That\u2019s what Canon\u2019s new pickup tube for superb picture resolution. portable home video system gives you. Because Canon At a mere 7 lbs.. Canon\u2019s new VR-30A portable Accu-Visiotf incorporates the recorder has four heads for crystal clear special effects, same advanced precision optics as Dolby* stereo, high speed search capability and can tape the Canon equipment used by the networks. up to eight hours. ; So it\u2019s not surprising you get sharp, high resolution pictures and vivid color. The new Canon VT-50A tuner\/timer can record as many as eight programs two weeks in advance. Plus Canon\u2019s new VC-30A video camera is small, it has 139 cable-ready channels and a built-in battery streamlined and highly sophisticated. It has recharger. Together the VR-30A recorder and slim Canon\u2019s computer-designed f\/1.4 8X power VT-50A tuner\/timer form the new Canon DeckMate,\u2122 Zoom lens, %\\\" high-band Saticon\u00ae tube a unique docking system that allows convenient for outstanding resolution, an exclusive stacking to create a compact console VCR. infrared automatic focus system developed by Canon, 10-lux minimum So see your Canon video dealer soon. illumination for shooting in very low And ask for the system that shoots pictures light and a built-in character\/time-lapse controller for greater flexibility. that look like the networks\u2019. The new home video system from Canon. For even more mobility, there\u2019s Canon\u2019s new, amazingly small VC-200A color video camera. _ Canon It weighs only 3 lbs. 5 ozs., yet incorporates an outstanding list of features including a Canon f\/1.2 '5 Accu-Vision\u2122 For pictures that look broadcast quality. -..jn aSA.. Inc.. One Canon Plaza, Lake Success, New York, 11042, (516) 41 Georgia 30071, (404) 448-1430\/123Paularino Aue. East, Costa Mesa, Catifom---- ..--- \\\" ' tri, Honolulu, Hawaii 96814, (808) 521-0361. \u2022'Dolby''is a trademark ofDoltryLaboratoriesUcensingCorp. \u00aeSatico: a registered trademark o\/NHK (Japan Broadcasting CorpJ.","","HITCHCOCK llneaillim^ tlie iiiaNter'K LLiiiLs.siii^pms_ ots of ooohs and aaahs greeted the until the second or third (or seventh or eighth) return of Rear Window, Vertigo, look. On the surface the typical Hitchcock and three other films by Alfred movie is a cunningly constructed tale of sus\u00ac Hitchcock to theatrical re-release pense told with a sense of humor that might after years in legal limbo. And range from the impish to the ghoulish. Look when MCA Home Video made its harder and the plot thickens to something tape and disc release last year deeper and more disturbing; an amorality tale videophiles shared in the pleasure told with images that make a more vivid im\u00ac of rediscovering them. The MCA releases pression than their ostensible roles in the plot constitute the biggest missing link in the may warrant. Hitchcock videography. Together with the Put several of these tales together and the flood of recent tape releases of Hitchcock\u2019s images begin to make still deeper and more British-produced \u201930s classics\u2014most notably lasting sense. In Hitchcock, an on-the-road Kartes Video Communications\u2019 $19.95 \u201cVideo process shot of two people talking always re\u00ac Film Classics\u201d\u2014MCA has made it possible for veals something significant about the charac\u00ac collectors to assemble all Hitchcock\u2019s major ters that will determine what happens later. works on a shelf, alongside earlier releases by Primordial passions always emerge near CBS\/Fox {Notorious, Spellbound, Rebecca), pounding surf, as though the presence of I MGM\/UA (North by Northwest), and Warner, something larger than themselves triggers o which has just added Stage Fright and \/ Con- characters into action. And birds are always j fess to its roster. harbingers of impending chaos or even death. o We\u2019ll never know what Hitchcock would In The Birds, the director got an entire movie ll. have thought of all this, but he might well have out of that one visual motif\u2014one that had been c approved. He made his films to be viewed present in his movies since the 1920s. Having \u2022g repeatedly, and while his best always make a started in the \u201920s with silents, Hitchcock nev\u00ac \u25a0S fine first impression, most of his movies don\u2019t er abandoned his reliance on the visual, a habit 5 begin to reveal all their interrelated secrets that gives even his later films a kind of classical BvMiirkFI(\u2018is(\u2018liiiiciiiii","purity that evokes the world of D. W. Grif\u00ac \u201cknife. \u201d But Hitchcock couldn\u2019t resist, as upper lip that suggested an absolutely fith and F. W. Mumau more than it does his he told Francois Truffaut, \u201ca sort of fierce-looking mustache!\u201d many film-school imitators. farewell to silent pictures. On the silent screen the villain was generally a man with Like the rest of the Kartes releases to Hitch's Salad Days a mustache. Well, my villain [the murder be discussed, this one looks as good or bad Yet it was Hitchcock who made Britain\u2019s victim] was cleanshaven, but an ironwork as what I\u2019ve seen on revival-house chandelier in his studio cast a shadow on his screens. Be forewarned that Hitchcock\u2019s first sound film. Though Blackmail (1929; earliest films are correspondingly the hard\u00ac the earliest of the Kartes releases) was est to preserve, though Kartes is obtain\u00ac ostensibly made for distribution as a silent, ing relatively good prints\u2014far better than a last-minute decision to bring in audio some of its $14.95 competitors. Like the equipment and reshoot a few scenes for a originals, Kartes soundtracks tend to be talkie version posed a whole new challenge slightly noisy but are intelligible, and the for the young director: how to use sound. noise can be damped by a Dolby switch or The story is about a young girl who knifes a your audio amp\u2019s high-cut filter. lecherous painter in self-defense and cov\u00ac ers up with the help of her detective boy\u00ac The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934) friend. Sitting guilt-ridden at the dinner was Hitchcock\u2019s most successful British table, she squirms unhappily as someone film and the only one he remade himself. discusses the murder. Subjective editing of MCA\u2019s release of the American-made 1956 the audio track finally obliterates every\u00ac version means the pair are available for thing but the repeated use of the word side-by-side home comparison. The basic plot follows a couple who stumble onto an James Stewart ventures into through-the- assassination plot. To gain leverage over lens voyeurism in \u2018Rear Window\u2019 (top); them, the would-be killers kidnap the cou\u00ac Grace and beaus in \u2018Dial M\u2019 (bottom). ple\u2019s child, and the story is one of pursuit leading up to a climactic sequence at Lon\u00ac don\u2019s Royal Albert Hall where the assas\u00ac sination is to take place. Hitchcock set the original\u2019s opening scenes in St. Moritz (\u201cthat\u2019s where I spent my honeymoon\u201d), though the remake has the family vacationing in Marrakesh. The two most distinguished Hitchcock schol\u00ac ars, Francois Truffaut (whose book-length interview has just been republished) and Donald Spoto (whose books The Art of Alfred Hitchcock and The Dark Side of Genius: The Life ofAlfredHitchcock are the definitive works on the subject), both pre\u00ac fer the remake: It has the advantage of 20 years\u2019 evolution in film art and technology, and replaces the shootout that concludes the original with a new scene in the London embassy of the assassins\u2019 diplomatic target. Hitchcock chose the remake\u2019s much analyzed and celebrated wordless continued on page 141 HITCH & SEEK Even Francois Truffaut couldn\u2019t find \u2019em all, though Alfred his face. Notorious: He drinks champagne at a party. Psycho: Hitchcock made cameo appearances in every film he made He stands on the sidewalk wearing a sombrero. Rear Window: beginning with The Lodger (1926). He needed some extra He winds a clock in the composer\u2019s apartment. Rebecca: He extras in a crowd scene\u2014and the rest is history. Here\u2019s a list of walks by a phone booth inhabited by George Sanders. Rope: He what we could find, going alphabetically by video title. The crosses the street after the main title. Spellbound: He emerges sources are our own observation, backed up by a footnote in from a crowded elevator. Stage Fright: He looks askance at Jane Wyman as they pass in the street. Strangers on a Train: Truffaut\u2019s Hitchcock. He boards a train carrying a double bass. The 39 Steps: He The Birds'. He walks a pair of dogs. Blackmail: He reads a passes in the street. To Catch a Thief: Hs sits next to Cary Grant on the bus. Topaz: He\u2019s in a wheelchair at the airport. newspaper on the train. Dial M for Murder. His pic peers from Tom Curtain: He sits in a hotel lobby with his back to the a photo album. Family Plot: He\u2019s silhouetted behind a translu\u00ac camera and a baby in his lap. The Trouble with Harry: He cent glass door marked, ironically, \u201cRegistrar of Births and quickly walks past John Forsythe\u2019s outdoor art exhibition in a Deaths\u201d (this was his last film and he died four years later). long shot through a window. Under Capricorn: In a rare double Frenzy: He\u2019s in the opening corpse-by-the-Thames scene. I appearance, he\u2019s at the governor\u2019s reception and on the steps Confess: He crosses the street atop a staircase (pictured in of his mansion. Vertigo: Again, he crosses a street. The Wrong Truffaut\u2019s book). The Lady Vanishes: He\u2019s glimpsed in a rail Man: He narrates the prologue. Young and Innocent: he station (look hard). The Lodger. He sits at a newsroom desk stands outside the courtroom with a camera. and later watches an arrest from a crowd. The Man Who Knew Too Much (1955): He watches Arab acrobats from the back of a That\u2019s the lot. Now, if you\u2019re aware of any we missed, write crowd. Mr. and Mrs. Smith: He passes Robert Montgomery in and spill it. We\u2019ll make this list definitive yet! on the street. Murder. He\u2019s on the street again. North by Northwest: He runs for a bus but misses it as the door slams in \u2014Mark Fleischmann & Roderick Woodcock","WHAT\u2019S \\\\V\\\\ll.\\\\Bli: The Birds Budget.\/Cable. Lila Kedrova. 125 min. Beta, VHS. $49.95. Color. 1963. Rod Taylor, Tippi Hedren, Jes\u00ac MCA. sica Tandy. 120 min. Beta, VHS. $59.95. Psycho The Trouble with Harry MCA.\/CED. $19.98. RCA. B&W. 1960. Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Color. 1955. Edmund Gwenn, John For\u00ac Vera Miles. 109 min. Beta, VHS. $59.95.\/ sythe, Shirley MacLaine. 99 min. Beta, Blackmail LV (CLV). $29.95. MCA.\/CED. $24.98. VHS. $59.95. MCA. B&W. 1929. Anny Ondra, John Longdon, RCA. Sara Allgood. 86 min. Beta, VHS. $44.95. Under Capricorn Budget. \/$29.95. Dimensions. \/$19.95. Rear Window Color. 1949. Ingrid Bergman, Michael Wild\u00ac Kartes. Color. 1954. James Stewart, Grace Kelly, ing, Joseph Cotten. 117 min. Beta, VHS. Dial M for Murder Wendell Corey. 113 min. Beta (Hi-Fi). VHS $34.95. VidAmerica. Color. 1954. Ray Milland, Grace Kelly, (Dolby). $59.98.\/LV (CLV). $29.98. CED. Vertigo Robert Cummings. 105 min. Beta, VHS. $19.98. MCA. Color. 1958. James Stewart, Kim Novak, $69.95. Warner.\/CED. $24.98. RCA. Barbara Bel Geddes. 128 min. Beta, VHS. Rebecca $59.95.\/LV. $39.98. MCA. Easy Virtue B&W. 1940. Laurence Olivier, Joan Fon\u00ac The Wrong Man B&W. 1927. Isabel Jean, Ian Hunter. 60 taine, George Sanders. 130 min. Beta, VHS. B&W. 1956. Henry Fonda, Vera Miles, min. Beta, VHS (silent, with music). $29.95. $79.98. CBS\/Fox. Anthony Quayle. 126 min. Beta, VHS. Dimensions. $69.95. Warner. Rope Young and Innocent Family Plot Color. 1948. James Stewart, John Dali, Far\u00ac B&W. 1937. Derrick de Mamey, Nova Pil- Color. 1976. Bruce Dem, Barbara Harris, ley Granger. 81 min. Beta, VHS. $59.95. beam, Percy Marmont. 80 min. Beta, VHS. William Devane. 120 min. Beta, VHS. MCA. $44.95. Budget.\/$29.95. Dimensions.\/82 $59.95. MCA. min. $19.95. Kartes. Sabotage Frenzy B&W. 1936. Oscar Homolka, Sylvia Sidney, Sources Color. 1972. Jon Finch, Barry Foster, Bar\u00ac John Loder. 76 min. Beta, VHS. $44.95. Blay Video (changed to Embassy Home En\u00ac bara Leigh-Hunt. 116 min. Beta, VHS. Budget.\/$29.95. Dimensions.\/$19.95. tertainment 8\/1\/82). $39.95. MCA. Kartes. I Confess Budget Video, 1540 N. Highland Ave. B&W. 1953. Montgomery Clift, Anne Bax\u00ac Secret Agent #108, Los Angeles, Calif. 90028 (213-466- ter, Karl Malden. 95 min. Beta, VHS. B&W. 1936. Madeleine Carroll, John Giel\u00ac 2431; 213-466-2432). $59.95. Warner. gud, Peter Lorre. 81 min. Beta, VHS. $44.95. Budget.\/$29.95. Dimensions.\/84 Movie Buff Video, 250 W. 95 St., New Jamaica Inn min. $19.95. Kartes.\/Beta. $49.95. VHS. York, N.Y. 10025 (telephone n.a.). B&W. 1939. Charles Laughton, Maureen $52.95. Yesteryear. O\u2019Hara, Leslie Banks. 98 min. Beta, VHS, Cable Films, Box 7171, Country Club Sta., $35. Cable.\/$39.95. Buff. Spellbound Kansas City, Mo. 64113 (913-362-2804). B&W. 1945. Ingrid Bergman, Gregory The Lady Vanishes Peck, LeoG. Carroll. Ill min. Beta, VHS. CBS\/Fox Video, 1211 Sixth Ave., 2nd fl., B&W. 1938. Margaret Lockwood, Michael $59.98.\/CED. $29.98. CBS\/Fox. New York, N.Y. 10036 (212-819-3200). Redgrave, Paul Lukas. 96 min. Beta, VHS. $59.95. Blay.\/99 min. $49.95. Budget.\/97 Stage Fright Video Dimensions, 110 E. 23 St., Suite min. $29.95. Dimensions.\/$29.95. Nos\u00ac B&W. 1950. Marlene Dietrich, Jane 603, New York, N.Y. 10010 (212-533- talgia. Wyman, Michael Wilding. 110 min. Beta, 5999). VHS. $59.95. Warner. Kartes Video Communications, 10 E. 106 The Lodger St., Indianapolis, Ind. 46280 (1-800-582- B&W. 1926. Ivor Novello, Marie Ault. 91 Strangers on a Train 2000). min. Beta. $49.95. VHS. $52.95 (both silent B&W. 1951. Farley Granger, Robert Walk\u00ac MCA Home Video, 70 Universal City Plaza, with music). Yesteryear. er, Ruth Roman. 101 rain. Beta, VHS. Universal City, Calif. 91608(818-508-4315). The Man Who Knew Too Much $59.95. Wamer.\/CED. $24.98. RCA. MGM\/UA Home Video, 1350 Sixth Ave., B&W. 1934. Leslie Banks, Edna Best, Pe\u00ac New York, N.Y. 10019 (212-408-0600). ter Lorre. 84 min. Beta, VHS. $44.95. Suspicion Nostalgia Merchant, 5370 Buckingham Budget.\/$29.95. Dimensions.\/72 min. B&W. 1941. Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine, Parkway. Culver City, Calif. 90230 (213- $19.95. Kartes.\/75 min. $29.95. Nostalgia. Cedric Hardwicke. 99 min. Beta, VHS. 216-7900; 800-421-4509). $34.95. Nostalgia. Paramount Home Video, 5451 Marathon The Man Who Knew Too Much St., Hollywood, Calif. 90038 (213-468- Color. 1955. James Stewart, Doris Day. 120 The 39 Steps 5000). min. Beta, VHS. $59.95. MCA. B&W. 1935. Robert Donat, Madeleine Car- RCA VideoDiscs, 1133 Sixth Ave., New Mr. and Mrs. Smith roU. 81 min. Beta, VHS. $44.95. Budget.\/87 York, N.Y. 10036 (212-930-4700). B&W. 1941. Carole Lombard, Robert min. $29.95. Dimensions.\/$19.95. Kartes.\/ VidAmerica, 235 E. 55 St., New York, Montgomery. 95 min. Beta, VHS. $34.95. CED. $19.98. RCA. N.Y. 10022 (212-355-1600). Nostalgia. Warner Home Video, 4000 Warner Blvd., To Catch a Thief Burbank, Calif. 91522 (818-954-6000). Murder Color. 1955. Grace Kelly, Cary Grant, Jes\u00ac B&W. 1930. Herbert Marshall, Nora sie Royce Landis. 101 min. Beta, VHS. Video Yesteryear, Box C, Sandy Hook, Baring, Phyllis Konstam. 92 min. Beta, $59.95.\/LV (CLV). $29.95. Paramount. Cona 06482 (800-243-0987). VHS. $44.95. Budget.\/$35. Cable.\/$29.95. Dimensions. Topaz Color. 1969. Frederick Stafford, John For\u00ac North by Northwest sythe, John Vernon. 126 min. Beta, VHS. Color. 1959. Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, $59.95. MCA. James Mason. 136 min. Beta, VHS. $59.95.\/LV. CED. $39.95. MGM\/UA. Torn Curtain Color. 1966. Paul Newman, Julie Andrews, Notorious B&W. 1946. Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains. 101 min. Beta, VHS. $59.98.\/ LV. $34.98. CED. $29,98. CBS\/Fox. Number Seventeen B&W. 1932. Leon M. Lion, Anne Grey, John Stuart. 64 min. Beta, VHS. $44.95.","","Plattertudes Ten Reasons to Purchase LaserVision Laser videodisc players can\u2019t record. tible indentations called micropits. These That\u2019s the problem. Neither could the ri\u00ac are arrayed in circular tracks 1.2mm deep val CED format\u2014but there the inability beneath an acrylic layer. The stylus, which was one shortcoming out of several. Here never touches the disc, fires a low-power it could be the Achilles\u2019 heel to set a future- helium-neon laser beam, 1.6 microns in world Greek tragedy in motion, keeping diameter, that \u201creads\u201d these embedded the LaserVision medium from becoming micropits. Depending on whether a disc is anything more than a high-tech curiosity. pressed in the one-hour CLV mode or the Must this be so? Not necessarily. Au\u00ac half-hour CAV mode, each of the circular dio turntables can\u2019t record either, and their micropit tracks contains from one to three only threat isn\u2019t from tape, but from that TV frames. Either way, an LV disc can cousin of the LV, the playback-only Com\u00ac hold about 54,000 of these frames per side. pact Disc. Yet audio is more passive than This \u201coptical\u201d playback system is much video. It\u2019s one thing to lay back and listen to By Frank Lovece more efficient than a VCR\u2019s electromag\u00ac music, quite another to time-shift Saturday netic process. For one thing, it starts Night Live to Sunday morning. For the with a complete, direct signal and repro\u00ac average person\u2014who from all indications recorders would argue that picture qual\u00ac duces it without the signal leakage endem\u00ac seems more interested in time-shifting ity\u2019s grown worse. (Sony\u2019s Super-Beta ic to contact systems. Compared to even than in playing back prerecorded fare\u2014the represents a great leap in VCR picture a very good VCR\u2019s picture quality, the re\u00ac video machine of choice must be the VCR. quality, and the VHS camp is working on sultant laser image is high fidelity for the j For the video purist, however, the LV improvements of its own; see \u201cWhat\u2019s eye. player is first choice\u2014like a Ferrari, top- New, \u2019\u2019 elsewhere in this issue, for details.) of-the-line and worth it. And now that Laser videodisc players, on the other Sound Pioneer has just half-priced one model to a hand, don\u2019t much care about TV-set limits. Quality mere $299, it\u2019s not even all that expensive. They\u2019ll pump out 350 lines of horizontal Now, too, with the death of CED clearing resolution (a basic measure of image qual\u00ac the arena of much confusion, and com\u00ac ity) even though most TVs and VCRs only puter-videodisc interfaces becoming in\u00ac measure as high as 270 on a good day. LV creasingly cheaper and more versatile, the discs are designed, after all, less for TV Which brings up a second laser advan\u00ac purist\u2019s preference may soon take a dip sets than for video monitors, which can tage: its virtually digital-quality analog into the mainstream. If so, it\u2019ll be for a match an LV-disc image line for line. The sound (which has been further upgraded in variety of good reasons. first time you see such an image can be Pioneer\u2019s CLD-900 LV\/CD combo player \u00a7 startling. It\u2019s as if someone adjusted the to genuine digital sound). Without tumbling q focus on the world and turned up the color. into esoteric audio specs, let it suffice to The main reason for this is that the LV say that even the most accomplished ear g Sartor\/LV player pictured is the Pior process uses direct video signals whereas would find it a challenge to discern between VCRs use magnetically encoded signals. a conventional laser videodisc, a CD, and a It\u2019s basically the same as the difference VHS or Beta Hi-Fi recording of the same between using direct video-input jacks program. (In fact, a CD player is nothing Videotape, video head configurations, versus the usual RF connectors when you but a laser-videodisc player that didn\u2019t and video-processing circuitry all have hook up your VCR to a TV. There\u2019s always grow up.) been improved over the years. Basic VCR less signal degradation when you go direct. Top-shelf audio has always been the LV technology hasn\u2019t. It is still an analog sur\u00ac Moreover, LV discs entail no physical con\u00ac disc\u2019s most obvious strength. Even before face-contact system designed to produce tact between the program source (the vid\u00ac lazy journalists overused the phrase \u201cmar\u00ac video images no better than what the aver\u00ac eodisc) and decoding apparatus (the laser riage of audio and video,\u201d LV enthusiasts age TV can display. As a result, picture stylus)\u2014countering the effects of wear. were members of the wedding party. For quality today isn\u2019t much better than it was LaserVision players work this way; Pic\u00ac nearly three years\u2014from the late-\u201978 o nine years ago. In fact, many musket-tot\u00ac ture and sound information are digitally en\u00ac trickle-out introductions by Magnavox and | ing pioneers who bought the first Beta-I coded on disc within billions of impercep\u00ac Pioneer, to the first consumer stereo VCR S","in mid-\u201981\u2014stereo video was exclusively if it ain\u2019t got that swing. dozen classical LV discs. A couple more the province of LV disc players. It still The \u201cswing\u201d in this case is the bounty of crop up among the other 15 or so compa\u00ac hasn\u2019t been until the recent arrivals of CD nies (including a couple of adult-movie players and Hi-Fi VCRs that any piece of classical music and opera programming on programmers) that produce laser titles. home-audio gear could come close to LV LV. Only a handful of videocassette pro\u00ac The Pioneer catalogue includes Royal sound quality. grammers specialize in classical program\u00ac Opera productions of Peter Grimes, Sam\u00ac ming, and only a few produce Beta or VHS son etDalila, TheTales ofHoffman, and La Classical Hi-Fi tapes. And except for Pacific Arts\u2019 Boheme; Royal Ballet performances of Programming Huberman Festival series and MGM\/UA\u2019s Swan Lake and La Fille Mai Gardee; the well-meant but patronizingly titled Who\u2019s American Ballet Theatre\u2019s Baryshnikov- Of course, sterling sound is only a Afraid ofOpera? releases, most of the ma\u00ac directed The Nut Cracker; Gilbert & Sulli\u00ac theoretical construct. It don\u2019t mean a thing jor companies give classical fare only about van comic operas; and concerts and sym\u00ac as much space as on the average network- phonies by Horowitz, Perlman, and the TV schedule. On LV, it\u2019s a whole \u2019nother Czech and London Philharmonic orches\u00ac libretto. tras, among others. Few classical laser titles are duplicated on cassette, and the Pioneer\u2019s own labels. Pioneer Artists and Pioneer Imports, offer some three- Charting LV& LV\/CD Players Brand\/ Video Functions' Stereo Computer No Video ;\/N Rotio: Model# Audio Interface No 42-1- dB Audio mag'navox Frdme\/chapter search; time No VC8040GY search (CLV). Via remote Analog w\/CX; CX on\/off. In\/Out Yes 55dB; 70dBw\/CX only: freeze-frame; Via remote only: l\/r Yes PIONEER forward\/reverse frame channel selection 42-t- dB 60dB;70dBw\/CX LD-660 advance, slow motion, No Not specified 60dB; 70dBw\/CX scan; pause (CLV) Analog w\/CX; CX on\/off; LD-700 l\/r channel selection Yes Not specified Digital: 96dB. Freeze-frame; Analog; 60dB; 70dB CLD-900 foiward\/reverse frame Analog w\/CX; CX on\/off. advance, slow motion, Via remote only: l\/r w\/CX scan; pause (CLV) channel selection Frame\/chapter search; time Digital; analog w\/CX. LV: search (CLV). Via remote digital-analog selection & only: freeze-frame; CXon\/otf. CD, via remote forward\/reverse frame only: skipArack\/index advance, slow motion, search & repeat play scan; pause (CLV) Frame\/chapter search; time search (CLV). Via remote only: freeze-frame; fonward\/reverse frame advance, slow motion, scan; pause (CLV) SYLVANIA Frame\/chapter search; time Analog w\/CX; CX on\/off Yes No 42-t- dB 55dB; 70dBw\/CX VP7400SL search (CLV). Via remote Yes only: freeze-frame; Analog w\/CX; CX on\/off. Yes No Not specified Not specified TEAC forward\/reverse frame Via remote only: l\/r LV-1000 advance, slow motion, channel selection Yes Not specified Digital: 90dB. scan; pause (CLV) Analog: 70dBw\/CX LV-5000DS Digital; analog w\/CX. LV; (without CX, not Frame\/chapter search; time digital-analog selection & specified) search (CLV). Via remote CX on\/off. Via remote only: only: freeze-frame; l\/r channel selection. CD, forward\/reverse frame via remote only: advance, slow motion, SkipArack\/index, search & scan; pause (CLV) l.b. play Frame\/chapter search; time search (CLV). Via remote only: freeze-frame; forward\/reverse frame advance, slow motion, scan; pause (CLV) 'Unless otherwise noted, in CAV (30-minute per side) mode oniy, Performance specifications ore non-standard, and ore of uncerfoin use. Ali chart information as per the manufocturers, not ViDEO test reports. es vidw>","ones that are generally aren\u2019t accompanied ning of civilization. The storyteller speaks, possible. by librettos and scenarios as the videodiscs the audience listens. Stage performers What\u2019s the big deal about interactivity? are. may step into a feedback loop, absorbing signals from an audience and fusing them Imagine a murder mystery, as in Vidmax\u2019s This is probably video\u2019s single most sig\u00ac into the performance, but that\u2019s an indirect two MysteryDiscs, in which\u2014based on nificant application, and it\u2019s exclusively the and informal process that doesn\u2019t affec^ your own choices and interests\u2014you can videodisc\u2019s. Narrative\u2014be it a novel, where the linear narrative is headed. draw the story to any of several equally documentary, pantomime, or anything \u201ccorrect\u201d solutions. Or imagine instruc\u00ac else\u2014has been linear ever since the begin\u00ac Interactive video, on the other hand, is a tional videodiscs, such as already exist mutant, the first of a new species. Interac\u00ac from a few programmers, that let you tive videodiscs are those designed to maxi\u00ac flip through TV-screen chapters and mize such playback effects as freeze frame \u201cpages\u201d as you would through a book. and random access to provide \u201cbranching\u201d: Even at this early stage, interactive discs multiple paths, through any of which a are already signaling a significant change in viewer\/participant can lead a narrative. A our perceptions\u2014an active (rather than laser player\u2019s pinpoint-accurate search- traditionally passive) relationship with tele\u00ac and-retrieval capabilities make this vision. Audio Frequency Response Dimensions Sugg. (h\/w\/d, in inches); RPtail Horizontal (Hz-kHz) mm Remote Other Price Resolution ; : Control Features^ ...Weight Anriffi All audio\/video functions Interactive-disc 330 lines 40-20 +\/- 3dB except power on\/off, CX compatibility; 43\/4 X 16W X $799.99 on\/off disc\/segment repeat 16 V4; 273\/10 play; on-screen frame\/chapter\/time 350+ lines 40-20 +\/- 3dB None Top-loading; 5% X 20\u2019Vie X $299 disc-position indicator 159\/i6;285\/fe 350+ lines 20-20 (tolerance All audio\/video functions Interactive-disc 43\/4 X 16'%2 X $799 unspecified) except power on\/off, CX compatibility; 163\/16; 27^10 on\/off disc\/segment repeat; on-screen frame\/chapter\/time 350+ lines 20-20 (tolerance 5-20 +\/- 0.5dB All audio\/video functions Interactive-disc 63\/8 X 169\/16 X $1200 330 lines unspecified) except power on\/off, CX compatibility; auto LV-CD 173\/8; 34^\/16 $799.99 on\/off switching; disc\/segment 40-20 +\/- 3dB repeat; on-screen 43\/4 X 16'\/2 X All audio\/video functions frame\/chapter\/time (LV); 16\u2019\/4; 273\/10 except power on\/off, CX on-screen on\/off track\/index\/timeAime remaining (CD); headphone jack w\/volume control Interactive-disc compatibility; disc\/segment repeat play; on-screen frame\/chapter\/time Not specified Not specified All oudio\/video functions Interactive-disc 16\u2019%2 X 43\/4 X $800 except power on\/off, CX 163\/1 e; 273\/10 on\/off compatibilily; disc\/segment repeat play; on-screen frame\/chapter\/time Not specified 20-20 (folerance 5-20 +\/- 0.5dB All audio\/video functions Interactive-disc 169\/16 X 63\/8 X N.A. unspecified) except power on\/off, CX 173\/8;35'\/6 on\/off compatibilily; auto LV-CD switching; disc\/segment repeat; on-screen frame\/chapter\/time (LV); on-screen track\/index\/timeAime remaining (CD); headphone jack \u2019 w\/volume control 2AII play both CAV (30-minute per side) and CLV (60-minute per side) discs, and both 8- and 12-inch discs. All remote controls are wireless.","Teac\u2019s LV-1000 ($800) is a top-end LV-only player with full-function remote. The random-accessing capabilities Software \u2014a laser player\u2019s lifetime may be indef\u00ac needed for interactive video are not possi\u00ac Storage inite. ble with videocassettes. First, imagine the Capabilities time it takes to move a phonograph arm Pioneer figures that its lasers should last from the first song on a record\u2019s side to the Videodisc Publishing and Vidmax re\u00ac for several thousand hours of playing last; then imagine the time it takes to do cently coproduced the best existing argu\u00ac time\u2014far more than anyone claims for the same with an audio cassette. Now you ment for the LV disc\u2019s capacious capacity, video heads. In the meantime, you don\u2019t understand videotape\u2019s limits and laser\u2019s the National Gallery ofArt disc (reviewed have to perform any videodisc equivalent big advantages. Given everything foresee\u00ac in \u201cVideo Clips,\u201d October 1984). Along of head cleaning. And since a disc player able about VCR technology, true interac\u00ac with the history of the gallery and a tour has fewer mechanical parts than a V(iR, tivity is an advantage LV players will al\u00ac come more than 1600 color frames, each fewer things can break down. ways have over videocassette recorders. literally a work of art. To cram all that into a book or a set ofbooks would be prohibitive, Ease of Some of the most prominent interactive expensive, and monstrous. But this $95 Operation discs include Optical Programming Asso\u00ac disc provides hundreds of laser-sharp re\u00ac ciates\u2019 First National Kidisc and How to productions in the space of one disc. You The technology behind a laser player is Watch Pro Football, Xerox\u2019s Gardening at could freeze-frame a Bruegel all day if you forbidding, but operating a laser videodisc Home, Video Vision Associates\u2019 Space Ar\u00ac wanted to study or simply display it. Try player isn\u2019t. Just plug in a videodisc and chive series, and Vidmax\u2019s two Mystery- that with a VCR only if you\u2019re interested in away you go. There\u2019s no need, as there Discs. burning out your video heads. was with the CED system, to pull out a disc\u2019s protective caddy. A laser player is Computer Software eminently easy to use (comparable to a Applications Durability well-designed VCR). Related to interactive capability is the You\u2019d also wear out the videotape, in Price gathering crowd of computer-videodisc in\u00ac that case\u2014scraping off oxides until your terface devices. A year or two ago, these picture\u2019d look like you washed it in bleach. For all these advantages\u2014and one no\u00ac interfaces never got out much. Now Videotape is relatively delicate, after all; it table shortcoming\u2014LV players come they\u2019re all dressed up and ready to hit the takes a lot less to mangle videotape cheap. Even Pioneer\u2019s low-end LD-660, at town. than it does to warp a videodisc. $299 suggested retail and as little as $250 in some stores, gives you high-fidelity By interfacing a laser player with a com\u00ac While LV discs aren\u2019t unbreakable, most stereo. At the $700-to-$800 suggested list puter, you combine the disc player\u2019s stor\u00ac scratches, blemishes, and fingerprints prices of Pioneer\u2019s LD-700, Sylvania\u2019s age and playback capabilities with the in\u00ac won\u2019t affect picture and sound quality at all. VP7200 and VP7400, and Magnavox\u2019s teractive capacities of the computer. De\u00ac LV engineers routinely sneer at \u201claser nearly identical VC8010GY and pending on the interface\u2014common models videodisc cleaners\u201d and say it would take a VC8040SL, laser players are still cost- range from $85 to over $1000\u2014these de\u00ac major cleft to throw the laser beam off its effective purchases. vices can let you not only alternate be\u00ac path. Manufacturers tend to be given to tween computer and video images, but grandiose claims, of course\u2014but the fact Discs also come relatively cheap. Most even integrate them or overlay them. You that the stylus never touches the disc indi\u00ac movies and full-length music programs fall can create your own games, instructional cates that the player, or the owner, will between $25 and $40 list, generally cheap\u00ac programs, or artwork. The whole is great\u00ac wear out long before the disc. er than their cassette counterparts. Pio\u00ac er than the sum. neer\u2019s new 15- to 20-minute music shorts, Ease of at $11, contain the same programming as Pioneer sells the most widely available Maintenance Sony\u2019s \u201cVideo 45s\u201d\u2014for $6 less apiece. interface module, the $250 model IU-04. The catch is that it\u2019s designed to work only Which brings up a good question: Just At these prices, LV discs don\u2019t have to with Pioneer\u2019s top-of-the-line LD-700 how long will a laser videodisc player last? record. They do what they \u201d.o about as well ($799) laserdisc player. Interface devices Again, because the reproduction process as can be done, and though they don\u2019t give compatible with more and various players involves no coptact between disc and sty\u00ac you time shifting, VCRs don\u2019t give you are available from Allen Communications in lus\u2014the latter is the part that wears out interactivity. If you\u2019re interested in video Salt Lake City; Micro-Ed in Minneapolis; quickest on a conventional audio turntable and not just television, the brave new New Media Graphics in Cambridge, whirls of LV are worth investigation. O Massachusetts; and Video Vision Associ\u00ac ates in Madison, New Jersey, among other companies. While interface devices for in\u00ac dustrial VCRs do exist as well, they\u2019re limited by VCRs\u2019 slow random accessing. 100 video"]