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Box 1118 Dover, New Jersey 07801 NO POSTAGE NECESSARY IF MAILED IN THE UNITED STATES BUSINESS REPLY CARD FIRST CLASS PERMIT NO. 3494 DOVER, NJ POSTAGE WILL BE PAID BY ADDRESSEE celsencmtroEniSc Subscription Department P.O. Box 1128 Dover, New Jersey 07801 PLACE STAMP HERE Reader Service Department P.O. Box 2563 Clinton, Iowa 52735 _ _","VIDEO CLIPS Produced (or Home Viewing Elvis: most accounts, did some serious dieting to Duran Duran: Sing Blue Silver slim down for worldwide exposure. Thus Color. 1984. Dir. Michael Collins. 85 min. The 1968 Comeback Special ragged, and his overall sound diluted by too Beta, VHS. $29.95. Thom EMI. Color. 1968. Dir. Marty Pasetta. 76 min. many cooks, his performance lacks an Beta, VHS. $29.95. Media. edge, though he still possesses an instinc\u00ac Word associations: Dog? Cat. Pencil? tive brilliance that carries on even as the Pen. Duran Duran? MTV. Elvis: Aloha from -Hawaii old flesh aches. A vocal vamp here and a Color. 1973. Dir. Marty Pasetta. Beta, microphone thump there prove that Elvis No other group is so closely identified VHS. $29.95. Media. had performing smarts that all the sun and with rock video as is Duran Duran, and not surf in the world couldn\u2019t wash away. only on MTV\u2014the group stars in four titles When first aired in 1968 it was called The and shows up in a few more. Small wonder Singer Special, as in sewing machines. But The exuberance is muted by the sta\u00ac critics accuse the synthfop quintet of being the instant Elvis Presley hit the screen, dium-size venue and by an emphasis on a superficial \u201cvideo band. \u201d So how does the dressed in black, snarling \u201cIfyou\u2019re looking torchy material that Elvis surely was group try to dispel this image? It releases a for trouble, you came to the right place!,\u201d crooning straight into the living room of his video documentary\u2014quasi-documentary, he blew away 10 years of wimpy limbo and beloved ex-, Priscilla. Still, if you\u2019ve got to actually. re-staked his claim to the monarchy of rock have sorrowful ballads, Elvis beats the & roll. So awe-inspiring was this return competition. And though the direction Thanks to the \u201cquasi\u201d part, this may not that the event, then and now, has been (both times by Marty Pasetta) is a little be a bad idea. Presidents and terrorists use called \u201cThe Comeback.\u201d soggy, the vision of Elvis live is still television to change their image, and riveting. Duran Duran seems to have taken lessons This is Elvis in his absolute prime, be\u00ac from Rapmaster Ronnie himself. Between having as ifhis heart and soul had continued Production values for both shows are verite looks at the band\u2019s early-\u201984 tour and to mature while his body mechanically network-slick, though audiophiles should some quite cinematic concert sequences, cranked out Blue Hawaii after Blue be warned that neither soundtrack is par\u00ac the group pleads its case with world-weary Hawaii. If Elvis wasn\u2019t keeping both eyes ticularly hi in the fi. But with a focal point as sincerity. Insists lead singer Simon LeBon, on the music scene, producer Steve Binder vivid as Elvis Presley, the essence comes \u201cWe\u2019re not the kind of band created by a was, and went straight for the jugular by through loud and clear. management company.\u201d slipping Elvis into a black leather suit that made Jim Morrison look like an ad for Dr. \u2014John Walker Perhaps not, but as bloodhound director Dentons. And he had Elvis sing rock. Hard Michael Collins sniffs out, Duran Duran rock. doesn\u2019t seem the kind of band created by a love of music either. Whether getting Despite a couple of borderline-fey pro\u00ac snapped by Scavullo or taped for Italian duction numbers (including, though, a rein\u00ac TV, whether screening call-in questions stated bordello sequence that the censor that don\u2019t help the image or kissing cheek had snipped when the show aired), the with tour-sponsor Coke, Duran Duran program hits back again and again as Elvis\u2019 seems every bit the product critics say it charisma cuts through the fog of network is. Ironically, but not too surprisingly, Col\u00ac television like a searchlight. The gravy of lins shows the band members getting more the show is an \u201cinformal\u201d jam featuring a than a little annoyed at getting a little more laid-back Elvis flanked by a combo that than they bargained for. includes Sun stalwarts Scotty Moore and D.J. Fontana. With Fontana laying the Part of the reason is that Collins, a rock- brushes in his lap and Moore plucking at video newcomer, has a devilish eye for the guitar, Elvis can do no wrong. And though the King\u2019s self-deprecating ad-libs detail. His documentary portions, done (\u201cWait a minute\u2014there\u2019s something with widescreen masking, capture both the wrong with my lip\u201d) are probably re\u00ac silliness of Duranmania and the grimness of hearsed down to the last snicker, The \u201968 crowd-crushed kids getting carted away on Comeback Special has peak energy. If you stretchers, with lots of those local cops love music, you will surely love this someone must rent to stand around and program. look disgusted. For all Collins\u2019 bluntness, though, there\u2019s scarcely a hint (a la the Alohafrom Hawaii might be called \u201cThe Stones\u2019 Video Rewind) of rock & roll\u2019s sex Comedown Special,\u201d but succeeds on its and drugs. own merits. Unlike the '68 special, which was pieced together from hours of footage, Director Russell Mulcahy\u2019s intermittent Aloha is fairly verbatim transcript of a live concert footage, filmed in squarish TV show broadcast to a single audience of over compositions, neither adds to nor sub\u00ac one billion, surely a nerve-wracking figure. tracts from this businesslike image. As if to belie the standard mannequin charges, the Aloha is Elvis five years down the road, band moves a lot better on stage than it did five years of exploiting the boost of the on earlier tours; its songs are still as hooky Comeback on Vegas turf. The musical and hummable as jingles. Judging from the arrangements are overblown and Elvis, by soundtrack, though, the audio seems to","have been sweetened considerably after erawork, and fat sound to rank as a classic radio personality Chuck Niles, his behind- i the fact. blues document. And though the audience the-scenes narrations were heavyhanded j is a little sparse and overwhelmingly white, and he talked down too much to the This\u2019d be misleading if Sing Blue Silver these points were addressed in the inter\u00ac viewer. He was trying to explain the work\u00ac ! were a real documentary, but from what view segments. (One black fan, asked ings of the recording studjo to the unini\u00ac j Collins shows us, it\u2019s also predictable. what gave her the blues, said it was the tiated, but even they would have been : Duran Duran is a video band, he seems to scarcity of blacks in the audience.) better served if events were allowed to I be saying, and video allows retakes. To the speak for themselves. Fortunately, more director\u2019s credit, even this view is sharp\u00ac Unfortunately, it has one major flaw: the often than not, that\u2019s exactly what hap\u00ac ; ly double-edged. So if you like the idea of producers superimpose interviews over pened\u2014and eloquently too. This tape, j a band whose strong suit is video, you\u2019ll the music. This can be nervewracking. with its digitally originated soundtrack and j appreciate this well-crafted portrait as How many times do you want to hear a glimpses into the music business, says 1 much as any critic. musician or fan make a point (no matter something mostjazz fans will want to hear. how good) when you could be listening to j \u2014Frank Lpvece some smoking blues? This becomes a se\u00ac \u2014Ben Sidran j rious problem when the editing covers up a j Weather Report: piece of great material, such as the final David Bowie: moments of Clifton Chenier\u2019s \u201cCalinda\u201d or Evolutionary Spiral the Ice Man\u2019s solo during Robert Cray\u2019s Jazzin' for Blue Jean Color. 1984. 15 min. Beta, VHS. $16.95. set. Color. 1984. Dir. Julien Temple. 20 min. Sony. Beta, VHS. $19.95. Sony. The most significant of these four videos The Mel Torme Special turns out to be the document of a direct-to- Bryan Adams: Reckless Color. The MelLewis Band. 1983. 53 min. digital recording session, Freddie Hub\u00ac Color. 1984. Dir. Steve Barron. 25 min. Beta, VHS. $29.95. Sony. bard: Studiolive. Knowing how moody Beta, VHS. $19.95. A&M. Hubbard can be, and how touchy a live San Francisco Blues Festival recording session always is, this might Although David Bowie and Bryan Adams Color. 1983. 60 min. Beta, VHS. $29.95. have been a disaster. But fortunately for all are hardly leaguemates\u2014the former is one Sony. concerned, even the moments of conflict of rock\u2019s most creative demigods, the lat\u00ac \u2014as when Hubbard gets fed up with the ter an above-average journeyman with a Freddie Hubbard: Studiolive cameras and turns to the producer to ask, few Top 10 hits\u2014they stand together in Color. 1981. 59 min. Beta, VHS. $29.95. \u201cAm I getting paid for this?\u201d\u2014work the forefront of a critical development in Sony. rock-video retailing. Both of these new together with the moments of artistry. tapes were released almost at once with In the Evolutionary Spiral Video 45, You actually get to sit through the re\u00ac corresponding records\u2014and that marks a writer\/director Larry Lachman takes on turning point for the video industry, which the task of \u201canimating\u201d the history of the hearsals, recording sessions, and play\u00ac has adopted a conservative position (\u201cis universe and choreographing these cosmic backs, and you\u2019re never bored (as you the record a hit?\u201d) that runs counter to the events to three previously recorded songs surely would be in real life). And Freddie, urgency and transience of the music. If this by Weather Report. To be fair, it is a thank\u00ac decked out in the blue velour jogging suit trend continues, music video may emerge less task, but this production doesn\u2019t even that he favors while catting around L.A., from its redundancy (\u201cyou\u2019ve bought the plays beautifully. So does the band, be\u00ac album, bought the singles, seen the con- match up to most of the concept videos on cause in a direct-to-digital session they cert, bought the book, seen all the Night Flight. The editing is jumpy, sound have no choice but to give everything videos\u2014now buy the clip compilation\u201d) quality inferior (did they really dub the they\u2019ve got on each take. I loved watching into a more prominent role that surpasses music off the albums, rather than go back bass player Abe LaBorielle and drummer its current, merely promotional nature. to the master tapes, or does it just sound Billy Maxwell effortlessly push the music that way?), and the special effects are forward. Always the risk-taker, David Bowie generally neither. draws on his extensive acting experience However, this tape comes with a caveat in Jazzin\u2019 for Blue Jean, a 20-minute film The Mel Torme Special illuminates jazz at as well: much as I like the voice and taste of not unlike Michael Jackson\u2019s Thriller. the other end of the scale. Upscale, that is. The heart of this video is a 1982 concert at Louise Davis Hall in San Francisco featur\u00ac ing vocalist Torme and the Mel Lewis Band. It was a black-tie affair, and produc\u00ac tion values are equally formal. Camera\u00ac work is good, but tends to be static (fixed, or lock-offs, and not many hand-helds). Likewise, sound quality is fine but the mix tends to be inflexible (where was the sax\u00ac ophone section during the first number?). There\u2019s no disputing that Mel Torme is one hell of a vocalist. He\u2019s also one hell of a musician (if you have any doubts, check out his command of the vocabulary while re\u00ac hearsing with George Shearing). But here he comes off as more of a showman with great vocal technique than the consum\u00ac mate artist he can be. Maybe these mo\u00ac ments appear exaggerated because of the formality of the setting. In any case, this tape is long on tuxedo and short on soul. On to the 10th annual San Francisco Blues Festival. This video captures some great performances by Clifton Chenier, Robert Cray (if you\u2019re a blues fan and you haven\u2019t caught him, you\u2019ve got a real treat in store), and the Charles Ford band, featuring Robin Ford. This tape has enough good music, action-packed cam- 54 Video","(MTV\u2019s demonstrated willingness to play of in civilized society. But they were never attempts to cover all of those points as well such a lengthy clip by a megastar must as give you the basics of how video cam\u00ac have a lot to do with its creation.) In both, a too particular about how they slandered a eras and VCRs work. story leads up to a musical performance, expanding the simple idea of a promo video songwriter or composer\u2019s reputation, as Although not much time is devoted to any one subject, this mini-course succeeds into a mini-film complete with dialogue, long as they got laughs. because you may repeat any segment end\u00ac scene changes, score, and a loose plot. lessly until you get the information down Think of it as the first 20 minutes of a rock The Best ofSpikeJones is a long-overdue pat. It is divided into six topics and a shoot\u00ac movie that rolls the credits as soon as the ing checklist. Each topic section has a bill\u00ac band\u2019s played its first big number. look at the father of music-video mayhem. board that tells you the major subjects it will cover and a wrapup at the end to rein\u00ac Here Bowie plays the dual roles of Vic, a The previously uncirculated material (from force the subjects covered. The booklet is nebbishy everyman who lusts after the compact enough to travel in your camera beautiful girl and uses more bluff than surprisingly clean kinescopes) comes from bag. Sound and picture are good, and illus\u00ac sincerity to impress her, and Screaming trative of what you can expect if you pay Lord Byron, a distant and fragile rock star two network-television series Jones attention to detail. (Some of the effects who ultimately sings the song \u201cBlue Jean\u201d used will not be available to most home in a plot-integrated concert setting. . hosted in 1952 and \u201954. The band\u2019s virtuos\u00ac tapers.) Viewing the tape on a VCR with Directed by the talented Julien Temple, still frame helps in the section on composi\u00ac this classy little film gives nothing away in ity on chaotic charts of \u201cCocktails for Two\u201d tion, but frame advance is not a necessity. production values or acting skill. However, the plot is sketchy and seems more like a or Suppe\u2019s Poet and Peasant overture is As mini-courses go, this one offers the series of blackouts than an involving dra\u00ac basics and enough else to help you produce ma. Bowie\u2019s musical performance (and even more impressive given the three-ring interesting tapes that don\u2019t break the great makeup) could be shown as a straight rules. If the video equipment you\u2019ll be car\u00ac music video. The humor is clever, with circus atmosphere in which they worked. rying plays as well as records, you can Bowie and Temple\u2019s concluding offscreen always take the tape along for questions in argument removing any trace of self-im\u00ac Featured musicians are trumpeter George the field. portance. As ever, David Bowie has cre\u00ac ated something of real quality (if not sub\u00ac Rock, rubber-faced banjo player Freddie \u2014Lancelot Braithwaite stance). Morgan, and Sir Frederick Gas (Earl Ben\u00ac The World's Greatest Bryan Adams\u2019 Reckless presents six Photography Course mildly connected clips (all smoothly nett), who plays tree branches. That\u2019s Color. 1983. LeifErickson. 88 min. Beta, directed by Steve Barron) that don\u2019t quite VHS. $59.95. VidAmerica. add up to the package billing: \u201ca drama with right, tree branches. Beginning to get the its own story to tell. \u201d (But then the box\u2019s Whether you\u2019ve never used a camera or \u201capproximately 30 minutes\u201d turns out to be idea? you\u2019re a seasoned photographer, you can scarcely 25, including credits; the songs benefit from this tape because it is loaded are also listed out of sequence.) Using the A sequence with the band in drag and a with accurate information. It offers the same characters (onetime girlfriend and rules of photography in an easy-to- her jealous boyfriend) and tying some of midget Liberace exuding \u201cI\u2019m in the Mood understand way. And as it points out con\u00ac the closing shots to the next clip\u2019s opening sistently, good photographs come from helps connect the dots, but the ultimate for Love\u201d are not only tasteless\u2014they\u2019re practicing those rules and learning when stick figure is not dramatic. The songs are you can break them for a creative effect. all melodic rock & roll not far removed hilarious. There could only be one Spike from the meat-and-potatoes music of John The program is divided into three major Cougar Mellencamp, and the clips are Jones, and we all should be grateful. This sections: \u201cLearning to See,\u201d \u201cEquipment pleasant enough in the same vein\u2014but and How to Use it, \u201d and \u201cShooting Situa\u00ac nothing elevates Reckless from the usual mail-order-only videotape is bound to pro\u00ac tions.\u201d Your first impression will be that watch-once-then-discard clip compilation each section is too short, but the beauty of we all know and, ah, love. voke extreme reactions of one sort or video is that you can repeat each one to extract more of the fine points each \u2014Ira Robbins another. The cassette case warns that it\u2019s time. Using a VCR with both still frame and frame advance will let you study the ex\u00ac The Best of Spike Jones: volume one. Duck! \u2014Scott Isler amples at your own pace. In many ways the tape practices what it preaches, but not The Craziest Video on Earth Home Video: Shoot Like a Pro every frame is a masterpiece. Don\u2019t be B&W. 1952-54. Spike Jones & His City Color. 1984. Nadine Bridget, Terry Moore. surprised if you find some frames that Slickers. 51 min. Beta, VHS. $39.95 + 44 min. Beta, VHS. $29.95. Sony\/ you\u2019d photograph differently. The program $2.50 s&h. The Best of Spike Jones Video Vidatron. recommends that you take frequent (1040 S. Fairfax Ave., Los Angeles, Calif. breaks. You should; it contains a lot of 90019; 213-461-9416). There is some overlap between shoot\u00ac lessons in a short period. ing with a film camera and shooting video. If the name Spike Jones doesn\u2019t ring any Composing the picture, lighting the scene Picture and sound quality are good, but cowbells, you have a serious\u2014or maybe correctly, and adjusting the camera for cor\u00ac remember that your still photographs will humorous\u2014gap in your knowledge of rect exposure follow similar rules in both always show greater detail. A LaserVision 20th-century music. The late Spike not media. However, in video you must be version would be desirable because of LV\u2019s only played a tuned set of cowbells, he constantly aware of differences between sharper picture. masterminded a comically effective sabo\u00ac still-camera and video equipment, the ac\u00ac tage of musical mores. Jones and his City tion of the subject, the ways light will affect The most significant benefit you\u2019ll get Slickers flourished in the 1940s and early your subject as it moves, sound, continuity from the lessons is that you\u2019ll learn what to \u201950s with a blend of dixieland jazz, musique in the scenes you choose to tell your story, look for in your pictures. Being a good concrete, and cartoon-slapstick sensibility. and the effects of moving the camera or critic of your own work is the biggest hur\u00ac They took satiric aim at trite pop songs and zoom lens. In 44 minutes this Sony tape dle you\u2019ll have to overcome in getting to be punctured concert-hall pretensions with a better photographer. This course shows arrangements and sound effects undreamt you how. \u2014Lancelot Braithwaite","QUICK TAKES\/VIDEO The Ernest Tubb Show, are the remainder by Mick Haggerty\/C. D. parts: himself (present), himself again (past), and an anonymous lounge lizard. Volume One Taylor and Jay Dubin, especially Dubin\u2019s Lou Reed\u2019s \u201cI Love You, Suzanne\u201d digni\u00ac Color. 1965. Ernest Tubb, Willie Nelson, fies the song\u2019s amused-man-of-the-world Jack Greene, Jeannie Seely, Cal Smith, \u201cPrivate Eyes\u201d (rock rags to trenchcoats in stance with dry wit and airbrushed ele\u00ac Wade Ray, Bun Wilson, Lois Johnson, gance; good job, Tim Newman. And hand Johnson Sisters, Grandpa Jones. 60 min. a rhythmic snap), Haggerty\/Taylor\u2019s Rick Springfield the honorable mention for Beta, VHS. $39.95. H. Butrum Enter\u00ac enlivening a stagebound lip-sync with a prises (44 Music Square E., Nashville, \u201cFamily Man\u201d (the boys in a living-room full final self-directed twist (he ends the angry Tenn. 37203; 615-242-0377). \u201cI\u2019ve Done Everything for You\u201d by of kids, with witty animated embellish\u00ac sledgehammering an RCA Victor 78). Its Compiled from several of the late Ernest MTV award notwithstanding, the Eu\u00ac Tubb\u2019s TV programs of 20 years ago, this ments), and Haggerty\/Taylor\u2019s \u201cOne on rythmics\u2019 \u201cSweet Dreams\u201d visualization is video shows that era\u2019s C&W at its best. pretty routine, and the Starship\u2019s \u201cNo Way Tubb delivers raspy delights like \u201cYou\u2019ve One\u201d (a moody Hall rambles through the Out\u201d\u2014despite Father Guido Sarducci\u2019s Got to Walk that Lonesome Valley\u201d and his cameo\u2014is bewilderingly megastupid. band\u2014one of the music\u2019s best\u2014plays with New York streets in pastel-tinted B&W). a swing-inflected feel that will stun those \u2014Mark Fleischmann apt to dismiss their style as simpleminded. It\u2019s reasonable rock-video wallpaper for The supporting performers shine as well. The Ultimate Swan Lake Tubb\u2019s drummer, Jack Greene, who later adults. \u2014Mark Fleischmann Color. 1984. Natalia Bessmertnova, Boris became a major country star in his own Akimov, Bolshoi Ballet Company; chor. right, sings his best-known hit, \u201cThere Danspak II Yuri Gregorovich. 120 min. Beta, VHS. Goes My Everything.\u201d For those who $79.95. Kultur (1340 Ocean Ave., Sea have only come to appreciate Willie Nelson Color. Compiled 1984. Jim Carroll Band, Bright, N.J. 07760; 201-842-6693). in recent years, he delivers unexpected gems, singing \u201cHello, Walls\u201d and \u201cMy Win\u00ac Lenny Kaye Connection, Strange Party, This is classic ballet at its best. And who dow Faces the South\u201d with the same better to narrate the love story of Prince behind-the-beat vocal style he uses Michael Musto & the Must, Go Ohgami, Siegfried and his Swan Queen but an origi\u00ac today\u2014but in the \u201960s Nelson favored a nally trained ballet dancer and the hero of turtleneck sweater and pompadour haircut Jason Harvey; dir. Merrill Aldighieri & Joe many a love story in dance\u2014Gene Kelly. over his later outlaw image. Great playing, He is inspired as he provides background great viewing, great fun. Tripician. 30 min. Beta, VHS. $16.95. on the Bolshoi, introduces the charac\u00ac ters, and lends an interpretive comment \u2014Andrew Roblin Sony. here and there\u2014and all without being intrusive. Though any ballet lover or A Tribute to Bob Wills Yes, you can actually see our own Tchaikovsky fan would appreciate this pro\u00ac Color. 1984.120 min. Beta, VHS. $49.95. duction, Kelly\u2019s enthusiasm and knowl\u00ac Delta Records (Box 225, Nacodoches, Tex. Michael Musto at the typewriter in \u201cJim\u00ac edge makes the video a good one for the 75963; 404-564-2509). rookie ballet watcher. The ballet was mie, Gimme Your Love\u201d\u2014and that\u2019s filmed on the Moscow stage in May 1984, The surviving members of Bob Wills\u2019 and though it is not ideally reproduced, the Texas Playboys deserve a standing ovation where he does his best work. (See \u201cI Made scenes are well-filmed. You won\u2019t miss a for still having the vigor to get onstage and leap or teardrop\u2014and with performances perform, but the memory of their great\u00ac a Rock Video,\u201d March 1984, for proof.) by Bessmernova and Akimov, you ness is ill-served by this amateurish con\u00ac wouldn\u2019t want to either. cert video. The Playboys still swing Ditto Lenny Kaye and \u201cI\u2019ve Got a Right, \u201d through \u201cSteel Guitar Rag\u201d and \u201cSan An\u00ac \u2014Julia Lisella tonio Rose\u201d with the flair they became fa\u00ac though his heart seems to be in the politi\u00ac mous for more than 40 years ago. Un\u00ac Dangermouse fortunately, video and audio quality are cally correct place. The best clips among Color. Animated. 60 min. Beta, VHS. abysmal. Neither the cameras nor the $29.95. Thom EMI. lights succeed in keeping track of the var\u00ac this selective video survey of NYC R&R ious soloists. Instruments are clear for the Along with Dr. Who, Dangermouse is a most part, though lead vocals labor under a rely on cameos for their authenticity: Lou British kid series with a cult following. It fuzzy layer of distortion. We\u2019re lucky to must be an acquired taste. This hour-long have any memento of these western-swing Reed and family anoint Jim Carroll\u2019s introduction offers no interesting charac\u00ac pioneers, but they deserve better than ters or witty action. Dangermouse is a this. \u2014Andrew Roblin \u201cSweet Jane\u201d cover with their presence, monotonous know-it-all, sort of Bullwin- kle\u2019s Mr. Peabody with Dudley Moore\u2019s Hall & Oates: 7 Big Ones and Go Ohgami\u2019s winningly infectious voice. When a space monster says \u201cI\u2019ll Color. Compiled 1984.30 min. Beta, VHS. render you armless, \u201d he jollies back with \u201cI $19.95. RCAIColumbia. \u201cKids on the Street\u201d features several of don\u2019t fancy that\u2014they keep my shoulders from fraying \u2019round the ends.\u201d This sci-fi Like their R&B-inflected chart gems, \u2019em\u2014and everyone seems to be having a superhero cartoon, with dashes of imita\u00ac the blue-eyed soul brothers\u2019 videos are tion Monty Python (one episode has a cus\u00ac restrained, evanescent, and always in styl\u00ac great time. \u2014Mark Fleischmann tard engulf the world till a custard-eating ish good taste. The flamboyant exception space creature arrives), is standard, at is the Tim Pope-directed \u201cAdult Hot Rock Videos, Volume 1 times wordy, but at least its aim is toward Education\u201d\u2014sort of like Hall & Oates in Color. Compiled 1984. Eurythmics, the humor and nonviolence. \u2014Ron Smith the Temple of Doom. Mucho preferable Kinks, Alan Parsons Project, Jefferson Starship, Rick Springfield, Lou Reed, Icicle Works. 28 min. Beta, VHS. $19.95. RCA\/ Columbia. The best of these seven videos are by elder statesmen. The Kinks\u2019 \u201cCome Danc\u00ac ing\u201d (directed by Julien Temple) shows that Ray Davies is still mining poignant memories to a calypso lilt, as he plays three","D I R y^O R Y New Releases on Tape and Disc No, it\u2019s not a typo! For some strange reason, three different (Beta, VHS, or otherwise). If the Woman in Green doesn\u2019t suit video companies got it into their heads to release three differ\u00ac your video-viewing color scheme, try the contemporary ent versions of Prince and the Pauper, all at the same time: Woman in Red. Key Video\u2019s 1937, Disney\u2019s \u201962, and Media\u2019s \u201977. (Too bad Mark Twain isn\u2019t getting royalties.) Each comes from a differ\u00ac Notable foreign titles include Le Magnifique, Return of the ent era of moviemaking\u2014from Errol Flynn to Oliver Reed\u2014 Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe (in search of the other?), and makes for a nice comparison. and Nudo Di Donna (Portrait of a Woman, Nude). Hats off to Paramount for its release of the 1927 silent classic Wings, with There are a lot of Warner titles popping up this month. Richard Arlen and Buddy Rogers as two men who go off to fight Under \u201cCrime and Punishment\u201d there\u2019s the Eastwood father\/ WWI as beaus of the same girl back home\u2014Clara Bow, that is. daughter Tightrope, two versions of Once Upon a Time in Key Video offers a batch of cult titles, including Shock Treat\u00ac America, and the classic Martin Scorcese Mean Streets. Also ment, Helter Skelter, The Private Life ofSherlock Holmes, and flying Warner colors are two more Hitchcocks\u2014I Confess and for an absolutely unbeatable evening of fantastic frivolity, The Stage Fright, to which we add MCA\u2019s The Trouble with Harry. Attack of the 50 Foot Woman (courtesy of an unexpected Warner rounds it out with Reflections in a Golden Eye, The encounter with aliens) and What Do You Say to a Naked Lady? Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone, and the all-time zapper, A Street\u00ac (courtesy of Candid Camera\u2019s Allen Funt, doing what he does car Named Desire. so well). We hereby declare April to be alternate choice month. If you For this month\u2019s Video Collector, we showcase Walter think you\u2019ll suffer from Stage Fright, try taking the Stage to Pidgeon. Some titles are no longer current, but they\u2019re out Chino. Instead of Terror By Night, consider Terror on Tape there in videoland if you look hard enough. ADVENTURE The Foreigner. B&W. Eric Pacific Inferno. Color. Jim B&W. 1937. Errol Flynn. Two Mitchell, Patti Astor, Deborah Brown, Richard Jaeckel, Tim identical boys: the son of a miser\u00ac Bamboo Saucer. Color. 1967. Harry. Secret agent in the maze of Brown, Wilma Reading. Japanese able thief and a royal prince. 117 Dan Duryea, John Erickson. New York City. By Amos Poe. 90 discover sunken treasure, force min. Beta, VHS (closed captions). Groups race to find alien spacecraft min. Beta, VHS. $75. New. U.S. POW\u2019s to recover it. 90 min. $59.95. Key. in Red China. 103 min. Beta, VHS. Beta, VHS. $59.95. VCL. $39.95. NTA. Gone with the West. Color. The Prince and the Pauper. The Chain Reaction. Color. James Caan, Stefanie Powers, The Prince and the Pauper. Color. 1962. Sean Scully, Guy Wil\u00ac 1980. Anna-Maria Winchester, Sammy Davis Jr., Aldo Ray. The Color. 1977. Oliver Reed, Raquel liams, Laurence Naismith, Donald Steve Bisley, Ross Thompson. vengeance of Little Moon and Jud Welch, Mark Lester, Ernest Borg- Houston. Prince leaves castle, Scientist exposed to radiation must McGraw. 92 min. Beta, VHS. nine, Rex Harrison, David Hem- trades places with poor child. 93 warn the public. 87 min. (R) Beta, $49.95. Unicom. mings, Charlton Heston, George min. Beta, VHS. $69.95. Disney. VHS. $59.95.\/LV. $34.95. Mysterious Desperado\/Rider C. Scott. Spoiled English prince, Embassy. from Tucson. B&W. Tim Holt, wistful English pauper trade Ride in the Whirlwind. Color. Daggers 8. Color. Kung fu. Richard Martin. How the West places. 122 min. Beta, VHS. Jack Nicholson, Cameron Mitchell, karate, and secret daggers. Beta, was tamed. Beta, VHS. $34.95. $59.95. Media. Tom Filer, Millie Perkins, Kather\u00ac VHS. $39.95. TWE. RKO. ine Squire, George Mitchell, The Day of the Cobra. Color. The Prince and the Pauper. Rupert Crosse, Dean Stanton. Franco Nero, Sybil Danning, Three cowboys, mistaken for out\u00ac Mario Maranzana, Licinia Lentini. laws, are chased by sheriffs pos\u00ac Ex-cop hired to track down heroin se. 82 min. Beta, VHS. $39.95. kingpin. 95 min. Beta, VHS. Continental. $49.95. Media. Five Mile Creek\u2014Volume 4. Stage to Chino\/Don Amigo. Color. Louise Caire Clark, Jay B&W. \\\"Stage\u201d: George O\u2019Brien Kerr. \u201cGod Fever\u201d: Maggie saves a stage line from sabotage. Scott\u2019s long search for her husband \\\"Amigo\u201d: Leo Carillo, Duncan Re- ends at remote stagecoach station. naldo. Beta, VHS. $34.95. RKO. \u201cAnnie\u201d: a traveler goes into labor just as she arrives at the outpost. Tigers in Lipstick. Color. Ursula Beta, VHS. $49.95. Disney. Andress, Sylvia Kristel, Monica Vitti, Laura Antonelli. Adventures in the battle of the sexes. 88 min. Beta (Hi-Fi). VHS (stereo). $59.95. Monterey. Tightrope. Color. 1984. Clint Eastwood, Genevieve Bujold, Dan Hedaya, Alison Eastwood, Jennif\u00ac I er Beck. New Orleans cop chases","murderous sex fiend. 115 min. (R) Columbia. I Wonder Who's Killing Her where everything revolves around i Beta, VHS (Hi-Fi, closed cap\u00ac Now? Color. Joanna Barnes, Bob the world of television. 95 min. J tions). $79.95.\/LV (CX, cl. cap.). Electric Dreams. Color. 1984. Dishy, Bill Dana, Harvey Jason. (PG) Beta, VHS. $59.95. Key. $34.98. Warner. Lenny Von Dohlen, Bud Cort, Vir\u00ac Neurotic husband hatches plot to Surf II. Color. 1981. Eddie Dee- Vegas. Color. 1978. June Ally- ginia Madsen. Miles and his user- kill wife, collect insurance. 87 min. zen, Linda Kerridge, Cleavon son, Robert Urich, Jack Kelly, friendly computer, with original Beta (Hi-Fi). VHS (stereo). Little, Moran Pauli, Ruth Buzzi, Tony Curtis, Red Buttons. Private songs by Giorgio Moroder, Jeff $59.95. U.S.A. Lyle Waggoner. Irreverent surf- eye based in LaaVegas finds miss\u00ac Lynne, Phil Oakley, Heaven 17, side antics. 96 min. Beta, VHS. ing teenage girl, breaks up slot Culture Club. 96 min. (PG) Beta, Imposters. Ellen McElduff, $59.95. Media. machine con game. Beta, VHS. VHS (Hi-Fi stereo, videophonic). Charles Ludlam, Lina Todd, Peter Takin' It OH. Color. 1984. Kitten $49.95. Prism. $79.95. MGM\/UA. Evans. Relationship between self- Natividad. Exotic dancer yeams to Wings. B&W. 1927. Richard indulgent man, independent become serious actress. 90 min. Arlen, Charles \u201cBuddy\u201d Rogers, The Errand Boy. B&W. Jerry woman. By Mark Rappaport. 110 Beta, VHS. $69.95. Vestron. Clara Bow, Gary Cooper. Men go Lewis, Brian Donlevy, Dick Wes\u00ac min. Beta, VHS. $75. New. The Trouble with Harry. Color. off to fight in World War I, leave son, Howard MacNear. A Holly\u00ac 1966. John Forsythe, Shirley Mac- girl behind. Beta, VHS (Hi-Fi, si\u00ac wood movie studio turned inside- The Kid with the 200 IQ. Color. Laine, Edmund Gwenn, Jerry lent with music). $49.95.\/LV out by the mail room boy. 93 min. Gary Coleman, Robert Guillaume, Mathers, Royal Dano. Man hears (stereo). $39.95. Paramount. Beta (Hi-Fi). VHS (stereo). Dean Butler, Kari Michaelsen. gunshots, stumbles upon body of a $59.95. U.S.A. College professor becomes young\u00ac dead man. By Alfred Hitchcock. 90 COMEDY ster\u2019s mentor. 96 min. Beta (Hi- min. (PG) Beta (Hi-Fi). VHS (Dol\u00ac Foolin' Around. Color. 1980. Fi). VHS (stereo). $49.95. U.S.A. by B). $59.95. MCA. A Girl, a Boy and a Gob. B&W. Gary Busey, Annette O\u2019Toole, What Do You Say to a Naked 1941. Lucille Ball, George Mur\u00ac Eddie Albert, Tony Randall, Cloris Marathon. Color. Herb Edel- Lady? Color. People react to a phy, Edmond O\u2019Brien. Romantic Leachman. Farm boy falls in love man, Leigh Taylor-Young, Dick naked woman who appears before triangle. 90 min. Beta, VHS. with worldly psychology major. Gautier, Anita Gillette, John Hill- them in a variety of circumstances. $34.95. RKO. 101 min. (PG) Beta, VHS. $59.95. erman. An accountant\u2019s passion for By Candid Camera\u2019s Allen Funt. All of Me. Color. 1984. Steve Embassy. running. 96 min. Beta (Hi-Fi). VHS 85 min. (R) Beta, VHS. $59.95. Martin, Lily Tomlin. Dying spin\u00ac (stereo). $59.95. U.S.A. Key. ster\u2019s soul is transported into the George Burns in Concert. Col\u00ac The Woman in Red. Color. body of a jazz musician\/lawyer. 93 or. Bums in Hamilton, Ontario per\u00ac Meatballs Part II. Color. 1984. Gene Wilder, Joseph Bolog\u00ac min. (PG) Beta, VHS. $79.95. formance covers early vaudeville, Richard Mulligan, Kim Richards, na, Charles Grodin, Gilda Radner, Thom EMI. marriage to Gracie Allen, playing John Mengatti, Misty Rowe, Joan\u00ac Judith Ivey, Kelly Le Brock. Boy Best Defense. Color. 1984. Dud\u00ac \u201cGod,\u201d his Country-Western na King. Crazy Camp Sasquatch. chases girl behind wife\u2019s back. 87 ley Moore, Eddie Murphy. An song, \u201cI Wish I Was 18 Again. \u201d 60 87 min. (PG) Beta, VHS (Hi-Fi, min. (PG-13) Beta, VHS. $79.95. attempt to build the ultimate super min. Beta (Hi-Fi). VHS (stereo). closed captions). $79.95. RCA\/ Vestron. weapon. Beta, VHS. $79.95.\/LV, $39.95. U.S.A. Columbia. CED. $29.95. Paramount. The Wrong Box. Color. John The Bride Walks Out. B&W. Hollywood Hot Tubs. Color. Offnight. After 15 years on the Mills, Ralph Richardson, Michael 1936. Barbara Stanwyck, Gene 1984. A hot-tub plumber for Holly\u00ac night shift, man is put on day shift Caine, Peter Cook, Dudley Raymond, Robert Young. Can a wood\u2019s rich and famous. 103 min. and his life turns to chaos. By Moore, Peter Sellers. Inheritance rich young wife find happiness with (R) Beta, VHS. $79.95. Vestron. George Bayer. 47 min. Beta, ignites murderous family feud be\u00ac franks and beans? Beta, VHS. VHS. $69. New. tween brothers. 105 min. Beta $34.95. RKO. Homebodies. Color. 1974. Pe\u00ac (Hi-Fi, closed captions). VHS (cl. The Campus Corpse. Color. ter Brocco, Frances Fuller, Wil\u00ac A Pain in the A\u2014. Color. Lino cap.). $59.95. RCA\/Columbia. 1977. Fraternity hijinks. 92 min. liam Hansen, Ruth McDevitt, Ventura, Jacques Brel. Hired killer (PG) Beta, VHS. $69.95. Vestron. Paula Trueman, Ian Wolfe. Senior crosses paths with suicidal shirt- DRAMA Catch a Rising Star's 10th citizens, about to be evicted, be\u00ac salesman. 90 min. (PG) Beta (Hi- Anniversary. Color. Richard come lovable hit men. 96 min. (PG) Fi, closed captions). VHS (cl. The AHair. Color. Natalie Wood, Belzer, Pat Benatar, David Bren\u00ac Beta, VHS. $59.95. Embassy. cap.). $59.95. RCA\/Columbia. Robert Wagner, Bruce Davison, ner, Billy Crystal, Gabe Kaplan, Jamie Smith-Jackson. Relationship Andy Kaufman, Joe Piscopo, Robin The Patsy. Color. Jerry Lewis, of crippled woman and attorney. 74 Williams. Reunion of comedy tal\u00ac Phil Harris, Peter Lorre, Everett nun. Beta, VHS. $39.95. Con\u00ac ent assembles in New York com\u00ac Sloan, John Carradine, Keenan tinental. edy club, Catch a Rising Star. 66 Wynn, Ina Balin. Hollywood execs American Dream. Color. min. Beta (Hi-Fi, closed captions). create comedy star out of daffy Stephen Macht, Karen Carlson, VHS (cl. cap). $39.95. RCA\/ bellhop. 103 min. Beta (Hi-Fi). John Mclntire, Hans Conried. VHS (stereo). $59.95. U.S.A. Trying to make the American 58 Video Dream come true. 90 min. Beta, The Personals. Color. 1983. Bill Schoppert, Karen Landry. Young man takes out newspaper ad after his wife leaves him. 90 min. (PG) Beta, VHS. $59.95. Embassy. The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes. Color. Robert Stephens, Colin Blakely. The legendary sleuth\u2019s personal life. 125 min. (PG) Beta, VHS. $59.95. Key. Shock Treatment. Color. Jessica Harper, Cliff DeYoung. A town","VHS. $49.95. Unicom. murderer. Beta, VHS. $49.95. waere, Jeanne Moreau. Professor Meg Laurel. Color. Lindsay Wag\u00ac abandons everything in blind pas\u00ac ner, Jane Wyman, Dorothy And Nothing But the Truth. Dressed to Kill. B&W. 1946. sion for a woman he barely knows. McGuire, James Woods, Gary Color. 1984. Glenda Jackson, Jon Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce. Scot\u00ac 90 min. (R) Beta (Hi-Fi, closed Lockwood. Doctor leaves her Finch, Kenneth Colley, James land Yard is baffled by a series of captions). VHS (cl. cap.). $59.95. family in Boston to help the people Donnelly. Journalist\u2019s efforts un\u00ac \u201cFinger Murders.\u201d 72 min. RCA\/Columbia. of Appalachia. 143 min. Beta (Hi- cover corruption and scandal. 90 Beta, VHS. $19.95. Spotlite. Fi, closed captions). VHS (cl. min. Beta (Hi-Fi). VHS (stereo). Heidi. Color. 1979. Jennifer cap.). $59.95. RCA\/Columbia. $59.95. Monterey. Empty Suitcases. Woman com\u00ac Edwards, Michael Redgrave, mutes between lover and her job. Maximillian Schell. Young orphan Lady Caroline Lamb. Color. Another Country. Color. 1984. By Bette Gordon. 55 min. Beta, Heidi finds new life and happiness 1972. Sarah Miles, Richard Cham\u00ac Rupert Everett, Colin Firth, VHS. $60. New. with her grandfather. 105 min. berlain, Laurence Olivier, John Michael Jenn, Robert Addie. Life Beta, VHS. $69.95. Vestron. Mills, Ralph Richardson, Jon in the 1930s English public school The Evil that Men Do. Color. Helter Skelter. Color. 1976. Finch, Margaret Leighton. The that spawned the post-war spy Charles Bronson, Jose Ferrer, George DiCenzo, Steve Railsback, fabled sex scandal that rocked scandals. 90 min. (PG) Beta, VHS. Theresa Saldana. Professional Nancy Wolfe, Marilyn Burns, 19th-century Great Britain. Beta, $79.95. Embassy. killer is forced out of retirement to Christina Hart, Cathey Paine, Alan VHS. $59.95. Prism. break a Central American gov\u00ac Oppenheimer. The Sharon Tate The Best of Upstairs Down\u00ac ernment\u2019s political torture ring. 90 murders. 119 min. Beta, VHS Lady Grey. Color. 1982. Ginger stairs, Volume 5. Color. 1971. min. (R) Beta, VHS (Hi-Fi, closed (closed captions). $59.95. Key. Alden. Girl\u2019s country music The Bellamy family and their staff captions). $79.95. RCA\/Columbia. catches the attention of touring in England during the early part of I Confess. B&W. 1952. Mont\u00ac band manager. 11 min. Beta, VHS. the 20th century. Produced by The Far Pavilions. Color. 1983. gomery Clift, Anne Baxter, Karl $59.95. Thom EMI. London Weekend Television. 50 Ben Cross, Amy Irving, Omar Malden, Brian Aheme, O.E. Has- min. Beta, VHS. $29.95. Thom Sharif, Christopher Lee. English se, Roger Dann, Dolly Hass. The Last Game. Color. 1980. EMI. officer loves Imperial Indian prin\u00ac Priest hears confidential confes\u00ac Student supports his blind and ill cess. 108 min. Beta, VHS. $59.95. sion to a crime of which he is father. 107 min. Beta, VHS. The Best of Upstairs Down\u00ac Thom EMI. accused. By Alfred Hitchcock. 95 $59.95. Thom EMI. stairs, Volume 6. Color. 1971. min. Beta, VHS (Hi-Fi). $59.95. The Bellamy saga continues. Pro\u00ac Gone with the Wind. Color. The Legend of Alfred Packer. duced by London Weekend Tele\u00ac 1939. Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, The Incredible Journey of Dr. Color. Patrick Dray, Ron Haines, vision. 50 min. Beta, VHS. $29.95. Olivia de Havilland, Leslie How\u00ac Jim Dratfield, Bob Damon. Men Thom EMI. ard, Thomas Mitchell, Hattie caught in fierce Rocky Mountain McDaniel, Ona Munson, Ann blizzard. 95 min. (PG) Beta (Hi- The Best of Upstairs Down\u00ac Rutherford, Evelyn Keyes, But\u00ac Fi). VHS (stereo). $59.95. stairs, Volume 7. Color. 1971. terfly McQueen. The battle of Monterey. The Bellamy saga continues. Pro\u00ac Atlanta, the effects on the South of duced by London Weekend Tele\u00ac the Civil War. 231 min. Beta, VHS Lepke. Color. 1974. Tony Curtis, vision. 50 min. Beta, VHS. $29.95. (stereo, digitally enhanced). Anjanette Comer, Michael Callan, Thom EMI. $89.95.\/LV, CED. MGM\/UA. Warren Berlinger, Gianni Russo, Vic Tayback, Milton Berle, Mary The Best of Upstairs Down\u00ac The Group. Color. Candice Ber\u00ac Wilcox, Vaughn Meader. Gangster stairs, Volume 8. Color. 1971. gen, Joan Hackett, Elizabeth Hart\u00ac Louis \u201cLepke\u201d Buchalter, head of The Bellamy saga continues. Pro\u00ac man, Shirley Knight, Joanna Pet- Murder Inc. during the \u201930s. 110 duced by London Weekend Tele\u00ac tet, Mary-Robin Redd, Jessica min. (R) Beta, VHS (Hi-Fi). vision. 50 min. Beta, VHS. $29.95. Walter, Kathleen Widdoes, Hal $59.95. Warner. Thom EMI. Holbrook, Richard Mulligan, James Broderick. The lives and Love Spell. Color. 1982. Richard Big Mo. Color. 1973. Bernie loves of women who\u2019ve remained Burton, Kate Mulgrew, Nicholas Casey, Bo Svenson. True story of friends since their college days. Clay. Lovers bound together for\u00ac the will and determination of bas\u00ac 149 min. Beta, VHS. $59.95. Key. ever by Druid potion. 90 min. ketball great Maurice Stokes. 110 Beta, VHS. $39.95. Continental. min. Beta, VHS. $69.95. Vestron. Heat of Desire (Plein Sud). Col\u00ac or. Clio Goldsmith, Patrick De- Mean Streets. Color. 1973. The Brighton Strangler\/Be\u00ac Robert DeNiro, Harvey Keitel, fore Dawn. B&W. \u201cStrangler\u201d: David Proval, Amy Robinson, John Loder. Actor continues his Richard Romanus, Caesare Dano- murderous stage role in real life. va. Young Mafia hood comes ofage \u201cBefore Dawn\u201d: Warner Oland. in New York\u2019s Little Italy. 112 min. Devious physician ends up as a Beta, VHS (Hi-Fi, closed cap\u00ac crimebuster. Beta, VHS. $34.95. tions). $59.95. Warner. RKO. Mike's Murder. Color. 1984. The Candy Tangerine Man. Debra Winger, Mark Keyloun, Color. John Daniels, Tom Hanker- Darrell Larson, Brooke Alderson, son, Eli Haines, Marva Farmer. Paul Winfield. Brutal death of Respectable businessman leads a woman\u2019s lover opens door to a double life. 88 min. Beta, VHS. $49.95. Unicom. Video Cloak and Dagger. Color. 1984. Henry Thomas, Dabney Coleman. Bright youngster wit\u00ac nesses murder of FBI man. 101 min. (PG) Beta (Hi-Fi stereo, sur\u00ac round sound, closed captions). VHS (Dolby B stereo, sum. sound, cl. cap.). $79.95. MCA. Confessions of a Police Cap\u00ac tain. Color. 1972. Martin Balsam, Franco Nero. Dedicated police captain tries to stop corruption. 104 min. (PG) Beta, VHS. $59.95. Embassy. Death Kiss. Color. 1977. Larry Daniels, Dorothy Moore, Leslie Bowan, Angela Cilento. Greedy husband strikes bargain with mad","sinister world. 110 rain. (R) Beta, Nathalie Baye. Man who myste\u00ac The Student Body\/Jailbait is reason for murder. 68 min. Beta, VHS (Hi-Fi). $79.95. Warner. riously disappeared as a young Babysitter. Color. \u201cStudent VHS. $19.95. Spotlite. husband returns nine years later to Body\u201d: Warren Stevens. New My Neighborhood. Mitchell resume his marriage. Ill min. drug controls hostile behavior with bwasy Kriegman. Debonair bar-owner is Beta, VHS (English subtitles). unintended side-effects. \u201cBabysit\u00ac and SCI-FI a psychopath. By Mitchell Krieg\u00ac $79.95. Embassy. ter\u201d: 17-year-old discovers the man. 35 min. Beta, VHS. $45. fringe benefits of babysitting. 75 The Adventures of Huck\u00ac The Roman Spring of Mrs. min.\/75 min. (R\/R) Beta, VHS. leberry Finn. Color. 1984. Ani\u00ac Newsfronf. Color. 1978. Bill Stone. Color. 1961. Vivien Leigh, $49.95. Continental. mated. Huck, Becky Thatcher, Hunter, Wendy Hughes, Gerard Warren Beaty, Lotte Lenya, Jill St. Tom Sawyer, and friends. 48 min. Kennedy, John Ewart, Chris John, Bessie Love, Emest Thes- Terror By Night. B&W. 1946. Beta, VHS. $29.95. Embassy. Hayward. Brothers film the news inger, Coral Browne, Jeremy Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce. Beany & Cecil, Volume VI. Col\u00ac for competing companies. HOmin. Spenser. Gigolo preys on vulner\u00ac Holmes and Watson take a valuable or. Animated. Beany & Cecil, their (PG) LV. $34.95. Embassy. able, middle-aged actress. 104 diamond back to Edinburgh. 60 friends in \u201cSleeping Beauty and the min. Beta, VHS (Hi-Fi). $59.95. min. Beta, VHS. $19.95. Spotlite. Beast,\\\" \u201cNever Eat Quack- The Night the Lights Went Out Warner. ers in Bed,\u201d \u201cDishonest in Georgia. Color. Kristy Underground U.S.A. Patti John Meets Cowboy Starr,\u201d McNichol, Dennis Quaid, Mark Sherlock Holmes and the Se\u00ac Astor, Eric Mitchell. Neurotic \u201cBeany\u2019s Beany Cap Copter,\u201d Hamill. Aspiring country singer cret Weapon. B&W. 1942. Basil has-been star meets street \u201cThe Indiscreet Squeet,\u201d and tries to make it to Nashville. 112 Rathbone, Nigel Bruce. Nazi hustler. An homage to Sam Fuller \u201cThe Phantom of the Horse min. (PG) Beta, VHS. $69.95. agents and Professor Moriarty kid\u00ac and Andy Warhol; by Eric Mitchell. Opera.\u201d 60 min. Beta (Hi-Fi, TWE. closed captions). VHS (cl. cap.). nap Swiss scientist and his newly 85 min. Beta, VHS. $75. New. $24.95. RCA\/Columbia. Nudo Di Donna (Portrait of a developed bombsight. 68 min. Danger Mouse, Cassette #2. Woman, Nude). Color. Nino Man- Beta, VHS. $19.95. Spotlite. The Violent Ones. Color. 1968. Color. 1983. Animated. Intrepid fredi, Eleonora Giorgi, Jean Pierre Fernando Lamas, David Carra- mouse, his trusty sidekick. 60 min. Cassel, George Wilson, Carlo Slipstream. Color. Julie Askew, dine. Young girl is raped and Beta, VHS. $29.95. Thom EMI. Bagno. Man searches for woman in Patti Oatman, Eli Rill. Rock DJ dis\u00ac beaten, sheriff arrests three sus\u00ac Exterminators of the Year a nude portrait. 112 min. Beta, covered. 93 min. Beta, VHS. pects. 96 min. Beta, VHS. $39.95. 3000. Color. 1983. Earth has be\u00ac VHS (Italian, English subtitles). $49.95. TWE. Spotlite. come a wasteland ruled by biker $59.95. Pacific. fiends. 101 min. (R) Beta, VHS. Once Upon a Time in America. Stage Fright. B&W. 1949. Jane Weekend of Shadows. Color. $69.95. Thom EMI. Color. 1983. Robert DeNiro, Wyman, Marlene Dietrich, 1977. John Waters, Melissa Jaffer, Invasion of the Body Snatch\u00ac James Woods, Elizabeth Michael Wilding, Richard Todd, Graeme Blundell. Blood-thirsty ers. B&W. 1956. Kevin McCar\u00ac McGovern, Joe Pesci, Burt Alastair Sim, Dame Sybil Thorn\u00ac search for killer. 94 min. Beta, thy, Dana Wynter. Aliens take Young, Tuesday Weld, Treat Wil\u00ac dike, Kay Walsh, Joyce Grenfell. VHS. $49.95. Embassy. over peoples\u2019 bodies while they liams. The loves, loyalties, and Overeager drama student tries to sleep. 80 min. Beta, VHS. $59.95. ambitions of boyhood friends who clear fugitive friend charged with When Angels Fly. Color. Jennif\u00ac NTA. grow up to forge a ruthless criminal murder. By Alfred Hitchcock. 110 er Dale, Robin Ward. Revenge Island of the Lost. Color. 1968. empire. 143 min. (theatrical ver\u00ac min. Beta, VHS (Hi-Fi). $59.95. may destroy woman\u2019s life. 120 Richard Greene, Luke Halpin. Sea sion) (R) Beta, VHS (Hi-Fi, closed Warner. min. Beta, VHS. $49.95. Unicom. voyage to find group of uncharted captions). $79,95.\/225 min. (orig\u00ac islands. 92 min. Beta, VHS. inal version) Beta, VHS (Hi-Fi, cl. A Streetcar Named Desire. The Woman in Green. B&W. $39.95. NTA. cap.). $89.95.\/LV (CX, cl. cap.). B&W. 1951. Vivien Leigh, Marlon Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce. 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Beta, VHS. disarmament on Sept. 9,1980 with the real world. \u201cScalps\u201d: ancient $95. New. Dan and Phil Berrigan, Sister Ann terror rises from the grave. 75 Montgomery, Molly Rush, others. min.\/75 min. (R\/R) Beta, VHS. Basic English for Hispanics By 92 min. Beta, VHS. $75. New. $49.95. Continental. Video. Color. Read, write, and Jazz and Exercise. 1984. De\u00ac Terror on Tape. Color. Nastas\u00ac speak a 1000 word\/phrase vocab\u00ac velop and strengthen all major sja Kinski, Richard Widmark, ulary using everyday situations. muscle groups. 30 min. Beta, Christopher Lee, James Earl 90 min. Beta, VHS. $74.95. Mas- Jones, Jose Ferrer, Marianne terVision. Faithfull, John Carradine, Mel Ferrer; hosted by Cameron Mitch\u00ac ell. Scary moments from over 20 horror films. 90 min. (R) Beta, VHS. $29.95. Continental. The Virgin Witch. Color. 1975. Vicki Michelle, Ann Michelle, Pat\u00ac ricia Haines, Neil Hallett, Keith","VHS. $29.95. Increase. II. Color. Feathered and four-leg\u00ac MUSIC Mezentseva, Konstantin Zaklin- ged friends take on hilarious human sky, Gennady Selyutsky, Tatyzna Jesse Jackson: Our Time Has personalities. 60 min. Beta (Hi-Fi). The Blues Accordin' to Light- Terekhova; performed by the Come. Color. 1984. Jackson\u2019s VHS (stereo). $29.95. U.S.A. nin' Hopkins. 1967. Hopkins\u2019 in\u00ac Leningrad State Kirov. Peasant speech to the 1984 Democratic spiration for the blues: boogie at a girl driven from joy to madness and Convention. Beta, VHS. $29.95. Terrorism: The Russian Con\u00ac barbeque, a black rodeo, a home\u00ac death. 135 min. Beta, VHS (Hi-Fi MCA nection. Color. The Canadian coming to Centerville, Tex. By stereo). $39.95. Thom EMI. Broadcasting Company\u2019s Les Blank. 31 min. Beta, VHS. Journeys from Berlin\/1971. documentary on the recruitment, $44.95. New. The Great Space Coaster Race 125 min. Beta, VHS. $75. New. training, techniques of the P.L.O. Supershow. Color. 1981. Teens and other terrorist groups, their The Butterfly Ball. Color. Twig\u00ac Roy, Danny, Francine with puppet Love Skills. Color. 1984. Intro\u00ac Russian connection. 60 min. Beta, gy, David Coverdale, Ian Gillan, characters Baxter, Goriddle, duced by Joshua Golden M.D., VHS. $74.95. MasterVision. others; narrated by Vincent Price. Knock-Knock, Gary Gnu, plus Director of UCLA\u2019s Human Sex\u00ac A selection of music, live action, guests Mark Hamill and Valerie uality Program. Five couples ex\u00ac Which Computer Is for Me? and animation. Recorded at the Harper in a variety of songs, stor\u00ac plore aspects of sexuality. 56 min. 1984. Explanations and definitions Albert Hall and Roman ruins of ies, cartoons. 59 min. Beta, VHS. (Adult) Beta (Hi-Fi stereo). VHS help the viewer relate computer Windsor Great Park. 85 min. Beta, $29.95. MGM\/UA. (Dolby B stereo). $39.95. MCA. functions to his needs. 30 min. VHS. $39.95. VCL. Beta, VHS. $29.95. Increase. Hot Pepper. 1973. Accordionist The Making of 2:00 A.M.\u2014 Die Fledermaus. Color. 1984. Clifton Chenier, \u201cKingofZydeco.\u201d Paradise Cafe. Color. Barry Woodworking. 1984. Basics of Kiri Te Kanawa. The traditional Life and music of French-speaking Manilow, Gerry Mulligan, Sarah cabinet construction, from raw Viennese comic opera, conducted musicians in the southwest Cajun Vaughn, Mel Torme, Mundell materials to the proper tools with by Placido Domingo. 90 min. LV country of Louisiana. By Les Lowe, Shelly Manne, George an emphasis on safety. 30 min. (stereo). $49.95. Pioneer. Blank. 54 min. Beta, VHS. $49.95. Duvivier, Billy Maus. Behind the Beta, VHS. $29.95. Increase. scenes during the making of the Giselle. Color. 1983. Galina Howard Jones: Like to Get to album2:00 A.M.\u2014Paradise Cafe. You and Me, Kid\u2014Volume 2. Know You Well. Color. 1984. 55 min. Beta (Hi-Fi stereo). VHS Color. 1983. Host Sonny Melen- Concert sequences recorded at (Dolby Hi-Fi stereo). $29.95. drez, Morey Amsterdam, Greg RCA\/Columbia. Mullavey, Julie Parrish, Ruby Keeler. Play-along\/act-along\/sing- Meeting of Minds, Volume 1 & along episodes with activities for 2. Color. 1974. Keye Luke, Jayne children and parents to share in\u00ac Meadows Allen, Alfred Ryder, clude \u201cLet\u2019s Go,\u201d \u201cMusical Bernard Behrens. Fictional con\u00ac Motions,\u201d \u201cIt Takes Two,\u201d \u201cFa\u00ac frontations between major figures mous and a-Half,\u201d \u201cMime Your of world history, featuring Sun Own Business,\u201d \u201cYou and Me Yat-Sen, Elizabeth Barrett Brown\u00ac Theatre.\u201d Ill min. Beta, VHS. ing, Niccolo Machiavelli, Aristotle. $49.95. Disney. Beta, VHS. $69.95. Vista. MISC. Mein Kampf. B&W. 1960. The rise and fall of German fascism, the The Girls of Penthouse. Color. worldwide destruction that fol\u00ac 1984. Centerfolds come to life. 60 lowed in its wake. 117 min. Beta, min. Beta (Hi-Fi). VHS (Hi-Fi VHS. $59.95.\/LV. $34.95. stereo). $59.95. Vestron. Embassy. Millhouse: A White Comedy. By Emile de Antonio. 93 min. Beta, VHS. $75. New. Modems and Data Banks. 1984. Explanation of modems and data banks: what they are, how to set them up, their many functions. 30 min. Beta, VHS. $29.95. Increase. On Any Sunday. Color. Mal\u00ac colm Smith, Mert Lawwill. Com\u00ac petitions, from closed circuit rac\u00ac ing at Daytona to the American Motorcycle championship races to European endurance trials. 89 min. (G) Beta (Hi-Fi). VHS (stereo). $59.95. Monterey. Painters' Painting. By Emile de Antonio. 116 min. Beta, VHS. $75. New. Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania. First trip by Jonas Mekas back to his native Lithuania in 25 years. By Jonas Mekas. 102 min. Beta, VHS. $75. New. Sid Caesar's Shape Up. Color. Sid Caesar parodies excessive lifestyles followed by a positive pep talk and workout that can be done in the home or when traveling. 58 min. Beta, VHS. $29.95. Media. Solar Energy: Hope for the Future. 1984. The sun\u2019s history, possible political and environmen\u00ac tal ramifications of solar energy. 30 min. Beta, VHS. $29.95. Increase. Speaking of Animals, Volume","others. Pavel Kogen conducts the Verdi's Rigoletto at Verona. Moscow Symphony. 90 min. Beta, Color. The tragic tale of court jes\u00ac VHS (Hi-Fi). $74.95 (reissue). ter Rigoletto, his daughter Gilda. MasterVision. 128 min. Beta, VHS (Hi-Fi). $74.95 (reissue). MasterVision. 38 Special\u2014Wild Eyed and Live. Color. Concert during 1984 A Well Spent Life. 1970. The life tour features \u201cRockin\u2019 into the and work of guitarist\/Texas share- Night, \u201d \u201cCaught Up in You, \u201d \u201cHold crop farmer, Mance Lipscomb. By on Loosely,\u201d \u201cIf I\u2019d Been the Les Blank. 44 min. Beta, VHS. One.\u201d 75 min. Beta (Hi-Fi stereo). $49.95. New. VHS (Dolby Hi-Fi stereo). $29.95. RCA\/Columbia. You Were Never Lovelier. B&W. 1942. Fred Astaire, Rita Un Ballo in Maschera. Color. Hayworth, Adolphe Menjou, Les\u00ac 1980. Luciano Pavarotti stars in a lie Brooks, Adele Mara, Xavier Metropolitan Opera production of Cugat. Boy chases girl, dances Verdi\u2019s tragic opera, conducted by when he catches her. 98 min. Beta Guiseppe Patane. LV (stereo). (Hi-Fi, closed captions). VHS (cl. $49.95. Pioneer. cap.). $59.95. RCA\/Columbia. High Sycombe Town Hall, Dec. Tomorrow, \u201d \u201cThe Look of Love, \u201d WALTER Sharif, Walter Pidgeon; \u201cFunny i 22, 1983, music video clips, origi- others. LV (stereo, 8-inch). PIDGEON Lady\u201d (\u201975)\u2014Barbra Streisand, | nal segments include \u201cHunt the $19.95. Pioneer Karaoke. COLLECTOR Omar Sharif, James Caan; \u201cKing Creole\u201d (\u201959)\u2014Elvis Presley, Shelf, \u201d \u201cWhat Is Love?, \u201d \u201cPearl in Madame Butterfly. Color. Big Red. Color. 1962. Walter Carolyn Jones; \u201cYankee Doodle the Shell,\u201d \\\"Hide and Seek,\u201d 1983. Raina Kabaivanska, Pidgeon, Gilles Payant, Emile Dandy\u201d (\u201942)\u2014James Cagney, \u201cEquality,\u201d \\\"Like to Get to Know Nazareno Antinori, Eleonora Jank- Genest, Janette Bertrand. Back- Joan Leslie, Irene Manning, Fran\u00ac You Well,\u201d \u201cConditioning,\u201d ovic, Lorenze Saccomani. Love woods orphan boy hired to care for cis Langford; \u201cFootlight Parade\u201d \u201cBounce Right Back,\u201d \\\"New and heartbreak of a Japanese girl. dog. 89 min. Beta, VHS. $69.95. (\u201933) & \u201cGold Diggers of 1935\u201d Song.\u201d 58 min. Beta, VHS (Hi-Fi Composed by Giacomo Puccini; Disney. (\u201935)\u2014James Cagney, Dick stereo). $29.98. Warner. conducted by Maurizio Arena at Powell, Joan Blondell, Ruby the Arena di Verona. 135 min. Calling Bulldog Drummond. Keeler; \u201cThe Maltese Falcon\u201d The Huberman Festival, Part Beta, VHS (Hi-Fi stereo). $39.95. B&W. 1951. Walter Pidgeon, Mar\u00ac (\u201941)\u2014Humphrey Bogart, Sidney II. Color. 1982. Itzhak Perlman Thom EMI. garet Leighton, Robert Greenstreet, Peter Lorre, Mary and Pinchas Zukerman perform Beatty, David Tomlinson. 80 min. Astor; \u201cThe Treasure of Sierra Mozart\u2019s \u201cSinfonia Concertante in Menudo...La Pelicula. Color. Beta, VHS. $39.95 plus s&h. Madre\u201d (\u201947)\u2014Humphrey Bogart, E Flat Major for Violin, Viola, and The original Menudo group: Rene, Lyric. Walter Huston, Tim Holt. 31 min. Orchestra,\u201d \u201cPassacaglia.\u201d With Johnny, Xavier, Miguel, Ricky. 84 Beta. $29.95. VHS. $31.95. Yes\u00ac the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra min. Beta, VHS (Spanish only). Coming Attractions #1\u2014The teryear. directed by Maestro Zubin Mehta. $49.95. Unicom. Super Stars. Color, B&W. 1930- 48 min. Beta, VHS (Hi-Fi). 75. Theatrical trailers include Dark Command. B&W. 1940. $39.95. Pacific. Out of Hand\/You the Better. \u201cPresenting Lily Mars\u201d (\u201942)\u2014 John Wayne, Claire Trevor, Wal\u00ac Two narratives incorporating Judy Garland, Tommy Dorsey ter Pidgeon, Roy Rogers, George In Heaven There Is No Beer. rhythm, color, props, movements, Orche-stra, Bob Crosby, Van \u201cGabby\u201d Hayes, Marjorie Main. > 1983. Polka regalia, dancing, the drawings, special effects as a vi\u00ac Heflin; \u201cThe Singing Kid\u201d (\u201936)\u2014 Raiders terroize small town. 94 sion of American society. By A1Jolson, Edward Everett Horton, min. Beta, VHS. $39.95. NTA. music and its enthusiasts. By Les Ericka Beckman. 58 min. Beta, Cab Calloway Orchestra; Blank. 51 min. Beta, VHS. $49.95. VHS. $60. New. \u201cMammy\u201d (\u201930)\u2014A1 Jolson, Marie Forbidden Planet. Color. 1956. Dressier; \u201cGo Into Your Dance\u201d Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis, Karaoke #1. Color. 1984. Sing- Sing Blue Silver. Color. 1984. (\u201935)\u2014A1 Jolson; \u201cFunny Girl\u201d Leslie Nielson. 98 min. (G) Beta, along selections with lyrics appear\u00ac Behind-the-scenes music video (\u201968)\u2014Barbra Streisand, Omar VHS. $59.95.\/LV (CLV, stereo). ing on the bottom of the screen documentary of Duran Duran\u2019s $25.95. CED. $24.95. MGM\/UA. [ include \u201cStrangers in the Night, \u201d 1984 tour. Songs include \u201cGirls on \u201cCalendar Girl,\u201d \u201cDream Lover,\u201d Film,\u201d \u201cUnion of the Snake,\u201d Funny Girl. Color. 1968. Barbra others. LV (stereo, 8-inch). \u201cSave a Prayer,\u201d \u201cThe Reflex,\u201d Streisand, Omar Sharif, Anne $19.95. Pioneer Karaoke. \\\"Hungry Like the Wolf,\u201d \u201cRio,\u201d Francis, Kay Medford, Walter \u201cTiger Tiger,\u201d \u201cIs There Anyone Pidgeon, Lee Allen, Gerald Mohr. Karaoke #2. Color. 1984. Sing- Out There. \u201d 85 min. Beta, VHS. 155 min. (G) Beta. VHS (stereo). along selections with lyrics appear\u00ac $29.95. Thom EMI. $79.95.\/LV. $39.95. RCA\/Co- ing on the bottom of the screen j include \u201cThe Way We Were, \u201d \\\"Up Sprout Wings and Fly. 1983. on the Roof, \u201d \u201cI Believe in Music, \u201d Tribute to Appalachian old-time ! others. LV (stereo, 8-inch). style fiddler\/storyteller Tommy | $19.95. Pioneer Karaoke. Jarrell. By Les Blank. 30 min. Beta, VHS. $44.95. New. Karaoke #3. Color. 1984. Sing- along selections with lyrics appear\u00ac Step Lively. B&W. 1949. George ing on the bottom of the screen Murphy, Gloria DeHaven, include \u201cSoul and Inspiration,\u201d Adolphe Menjou, Anne Jeffreys, \u201cVenus in Blue Jeans,\u201d \u201cNatural Frank Sinatra. Fast-talking Woman,\u201d others. LV (stereo, 8- producer tries to open a musical inch). $19.95. Pioneer Karaoke. revue. 86 min. Beta-, VHS. $34.95. RKO. Karaoke #4. Color. 1984. Sing- along selections with lyrics appear\u00ac Tchaikovsky Competition: ing on the bottom of the screen Violin and Piano. Color. 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Curtis, Alice Cooper, George Raft, Rona Barrett, Timothy Dal\u00ac The Rack. B&W. 1956. Paul ton, Walter Pidgeon. 91 min. Beta, Newman, Wendell Corey, Walter VHS. $19.95 (reissue). Media. Pidgeon, Anne Francis, Edmond SOURCES Atlantic Film Group I, Box 102 Lyric Distribution, 162B Cabot 22-770, Carm.el, Calif. 93922 (408- Calif. 90066-0930 (213-306-4040). Harbour Rd., Kittery Point, Me. St., West Babylon, N.Y. 11704 624-4704). 03905 (207-439-3739). (516-420-1044). Thorn EMI Home Video, 1370 Paramount Home Video, 5451 Sixth Ave., New York, N.Y. 10019 Blackhawk Films, One Old MasterVision, 969 Park Ave., Marathon St., Hollywood, Calif. (212-977-8990). Eagle Brewery, Box 3990, Daven\u00ac New York, N.Y. 10028 (212-879- 90038 (213-468-5000). port, Iowa 52808 (319-323-9736). 0448). Trans World Entertainment, 6430 CBS\/Fox Video, 1211 Sixth Ave., Pioneer Artists, c\/o Pioneer Sunset Blvd. #501, Hollywood, 2nd floor, New York, N.Y. 10036 MCA Home Video, 70 Universal Video, 200 W. 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Schreiber ManagerofHome Products Engineering As you know, the path the sense of three-dimensional realism we sound with spacious realism that can actu\u00ac toward perfect reproduc\u00ac get at a Dolby Stereo movie. tion quality is never with\u00ac ally make the listening room seem larger. out obstacles. And if Within its two standard soundtracks, the you\u2019re like most serious film has surround-signal information which If you watch video movies very often, hi-fi music lovers and videocassette movie is recovered by a Dolby* cinema proces\u00ac watchers, you\u2019re always searching for sor. The end result lies with our perception. chances are that many of the tapes you ways to improve On-screen sound is localized as it should your home enter\u00ac use are Dolby encoded with surround- tainment system. be. And we perceive surround effects not Your goal is to re\u00ac as distinct sound, but as an off-screen, sound signals. To take advantage of this create the exciting background ambience. realism of the origi\u00ac Surround-Sound Realism at Home potential, you\u2019ll need to get a surround nal performance. Today\u2019s technol- How can you achieve the same type of decoder, a second t ogy makes it easier sonic ambience at home? Start by select\u00ac to reach the goal. ing the best speakers, because they are pair of speakers Fidelity is not only the biggest determinant of fidelity. higher, it\u2019s also and an amp to drive more accessible. At Bose\u00ae we\u2019ve invested 20 years of For example, hi-fi research to create unique Direct\/ them. J VCRs and prere\u00ac Reflecting\u00ae speakers. Based on the same corded videocas\u00ac principles that govern sound dispersion in We invite you settes make it a large theater or concert hall, Bose sys\u00ac possible to \u201cgo to the movies\u201d at home. tems maintain uniform stereo sound to audition Bose Big Theater Entertainment throughout the room. 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However, it is not speaker placement, but surround-sound subtle \u201csurround-sound\u201d effects, projected by the side and rear speakers, that explain applications, where Covered by patent rights issued and\/or pending. evenly distributed \u00a9 Copyright 1984 Bose Corporation. All rights res sound is essential. For more infor\u00ac mation on Bose products, and a list of authorized dealers, please write: Bose Corporation, Dept. VM, 10 Speen Street, Framingham, MA 01701. |l For additio","","The Greatest jStories Q^TjoId Sword Sc Sandal Spies ortQassette ByTomjSoter n the beginning there was ences away from the theaters, Hollywood The Robe. And The Robe mounted a series of brightly costumed was without shape or stars. adventures, shot in exotic locales in full But Hollywood said, \u201cLet it color and widescreen (The Robe was the have Spectacle and Ro\u00ac first major Cinemascope production). mans. And let it have These epics usually had a high moral tone, Cinemascope.\u201d And it was which the most successful exploited to the so. And the public said that it fullest, allowing the viewer to experience was good. And lo, Holly\u00ac sex and adventure vicariously while feeling wood said, \u201cLet there be The Ten Com\u00ac it was all for a good cause. \u201cYou talk about mandments.\u201d And The Ten Com\u00ac the wages of sin, so you must show sin, \u201d mandments begat Ben-Hur. And Ben-Hur Jesse Lasky Jr., one of Cecil B. DeMille\u2019s begat El Cid. And Hollywood never screenwriters, once explained. Indeed, rested. For the epics were not always the best epics appealed to morality\u2014but good, but they were extremely profitable. were also good action films in which a vir\u00ac The Robe was really not the first epic\u2014 tuous hero, reluctantly joining a battle, silent films and movies in the \u201930s and \u201940s overcomes tremendous odds to achieve featured Romans, knights, and assorted some quest-like goal, often involving a swashbucklers\u2014but it was the first of its romance. This was the pattern that most kind, setting a trend that would continue followed, and The Robe set the trend. for a decade. Why did the epic come about? And more important\u2014what is it? A number The Rise and Fall of the Epic of epics are now on tape, offering a good (1) The Robe (1953). Based on a book by opportunity (in this selective and informal doctor-turned-writer Lloyd C. Douglas survey) to answer those questions and (author of Magnificent Obsession), the another one: how well do these wide\u00ac story delineates the adventures of the Ro\u00ac screen extravaganzas hold up on tape? man centurion Marcellus (Richard Burton) The epic arose because of television. To who, through Christ\u2019s teachings, changes retaliate against TV\u2019s studio-bound black & from a drunken playboy to a freedom-fight\u00ac white dramas, which were drawing audi\u00ac ing Christian. Marcellus romances Diana","Myths and legends (clockwise from right): Talos, the bronze golem, in \u2018Jason and the Argo\u00ac nauts\u2019; Taylor and Burton in \u2018Cleopatra\u2019; Charlton Heston as \u2018Ben Hur ; Heston as Moses in \u2018The Ten Commandments\u2019; the Python gang in \u2018Monty Python and the Holy Grail. \u2019 Qean Simmons) and has a couple of sword beginning to lose their definition: the reds fortune-cookie factory (\u201cHave the days of fights, but most of the movie deals with are vibrant, the blues are beginning to turn darkness not made you see the light?\u201d), or smiling Christians (who resemble modern- purple, and much of the movie looks (unin\u00ac the ridiculously arch performances, led by day \u201cmoonies\u201d) talking about \u201cHis\u201d tentionally) like an El Greco painting. The Charlton Heston as Moses. DeMille had teachings. scanning and panning are equally poor. At seen the actor in Dark City and reportedly one point Burton addresses a soldier off\u00ac liked the way he waved. Heston does his Burton scowls throughout most of the screen; a pan begins, but before it is com\u00ac best, but the weight of the character ulti\u00ac story, and no wonder: it is heavy on irony plete a whole exchange has taken place and mately brings him down. His Moses\u2014ini\u00ac and predictable soapy music. It is the sort we have seen neither party. Because tially an interesting character tom by love, of tale that introduces an eloquent Judas director Henry Koster employed many ambition, and duty\u2014finally becomes so mournfully talking about how he betrayed wide shots to take advantage of Cinema\u00ac clear-seeing and virtuous as God\u2019s prophet Jesus, and offers a nervous Pontius Pilate scope, there\u2019s also a cropping problem in that he is a prig and a bore, uninterested in constantly mumbling about how he must many sequences. And Tape I ends abruptly anything but communing with God. And no wash his hands. Burton and Simmons get in the middle of a sentence. wonder: Heston did God\u2019s voice too. to walk off into the clouds in the end in a (2) The Ten Commandments (1956). kind of wonderful martyrdom; the rest of The success of The Robe let loose a torrent The movie\u2019s fun lies in the first half, a us aren\u2019t so lucky. The Robe was a huge of Biblical movies and inspired Cecil B. sort ofZ>fi\/\/\u00abs-in-Egypt, with the scheming success (it was followed by a sequel, De\u00ac DeMille to remake his silent film, The Ten pharaoh\u2019s son (Yul Brynner), sultry sexpot metrius and the Gladiators)\u2014but the Cine\u00ac Commandments, a huge success showing (Anne Baxter), evil overseer (Vincent mascope, costumes, and religious tone how Moses freed the Jews. Price), and traitorous Jew (Edward G. probably had more to do with that than the Robinson). For romantic interest, John banal story and dreadful acting. It\u2019s hard to decide what\u2019s funnier in this Derek (later Bo\u2019s husband) plays Joshua, a camp classic: the inane dialogue, which headstrong slave in love with Lilia (Debra The transfer does justice to the quality often sounds as if it had been created in a Paget), who is handy with his fists but of the movie. The print is poor, with colors","pretty bad when it comes to delivering the most popular movie of all time. \u201cDeMille\u2019s decreasing steadily until God\u2019s voice lines. movies are barnstormers,\u201d wrote critic sounds like a whisper. There is also dust on The second half of the movie, the ex\u00ac David Thompson in 1975, \u201crooted in Victo\u00ac the print. Luckily, there is little problem odus, is action, action, action. DeMille rian prestige, shamelessly stereotyped with image ratio since DeMille shot in Vis\u00ac knows his audience: when Moses becomes and sentimental, but eagerly courting 20th ta-Vision, vyhich is closer to the TV- a virtuous party-poop, the special-effects century permissiveness, if only solemnly screen aspect ratio than Cinemascope. boys take over. And Part II never lets up: to condemn it. The movies are simple (3) Ben Hur (1959). The success of The there is the pillar of fire, the plague of ...but...the energy of his imagination sel\u00ac Ten Commandments led to this film, the death, the burning bush, the staff that dom flags.\u201d. epitome of the epic form, which won 11 turns into a snake, the Nile running red, Nor does his attention to imagery\u2014and Oscars and has been called the \u201cthinking and the famous parting of the Red Sea The Ten Commandments has some strik\u00ac man\u2019s epic. \u201d It\u2019s not hard to see why. A (which won the film an Oscar). There is ing visuals. Unfortunately, they suffer remake of a silent film based on a book by also a racy orgy which takes place while tremendously in this transfer. Colors vary Lew Wallace, Ben-Hur is the story of Moses is on Sinai watching God write out friendship betrayed, of revenge sought and the Ten Commandments with a pretty nifty won. It is the story of Judah Ben-Hur finger of flame. (Charlton Heston) and his boyhood friend The Ten Commandments is a wild Messala (Stephen Boyd) who feud over the vaudevillian\u2019s movie with a little bit of ev\u00ac Romans\u2019 treatment of the Jews and even\u00ac erything except real characters, and it was tually fight it out to the death in a justly wildly successful, becoming the second continued on page 122 \u2014 \u25a0-;\u2014-|\u2014 Ben Hur What's Available Edward G. Robinson. 220 min. Beta, VHS. Color. 1959. Charlton Heston. Jack Haw\u00ac S84.95.\/LV (stereo, CX, surround sound). kins. Stephen Boyd. 217 min. Beta. VHS. Monty Python and the Holy Grail $39.95. Paramount.'219 min. (G) CED. $89.95. 211 min. LV (stereo, CX, surround Color. 1975. Eric Idle, Michael Palin, John $34.98. RCA. sound). CED. $39.95. MGMUA. Cleese. 90 min. Beta. VHS. $59.95..LV. $29.95. RCACohrmbia. SOURCES The Bible Monty Python's Life of Brian CBS\/Fox Video, 1211 Sixth Ave.. 2nd floor, Color. 1966. Michael Parks, Richard Harris. Color. 1979. Eric Idle, Michael Palin, John New York, N.Y. 10036 (212-819-3200). Peter O'Toole. 155 min. Beta. VHS. Cleese. 90 min. (R) Beta, VHS. $39.98. MGM\/UA Home Video, 1350 Sixth Ave., $79.98. CBS\/Fox. Wamer CED. RCA. New York. N.Y. 10019 (212-408-0600). Paramount Home Video, 5451 Marathon Camelot The Fall of the Roman Empire St., Hollywood, Calif. 90038 (213-468- Color. 1967. Richard Harris. Vanessa Red\u00ac Color. 1964. Sophia Loren, Stephen Boyd. grave. David Hemmings. 150 min. Beta. Alec Guinness. 152 min. Beta, VHS. $69.95 RCA VideoDiscs, 1133 Sixth Ave., New VHS. S89.95.\/LV (stereo, CX). $39.95. (reissue). VCI. York, N.Y. 10036 (212-930-4700). Warner. RCA\/Columbia Pictures Home Video, Jason and the Argonauts 2901 W: Alameda Ave., Burbank, Calif. Cleopatra Color. 1963. Todd Armstrong. Nancy 91505 (818-954-4950). Color. 1963. Elizabeth Taylor. Richard Kovak, Garv Ravmond. 104 min. (G) Beta, VCI Video Communications Home Video. Burton. Rex Harrison. 184 min. Beta. VHS VHS. $59.95.,LV. $29.95. RCAColumbia. 6555E. SkellvDr., Tulsa, Okla. 74145(918- (stereo). $79.98. CED (stereo). $34.98. CED. $24.98. RCA. 622-6460). CBS\/Fox. Vestron Video, 1011 High Ridge Rd., Box The Robe 4000, Stamford. Conn. 06907 (203-968- El Cid Color. 1953. Richard Burton, Jean Sim\u00ac 0000). Color. 1961. Charlton Heston. Sophia mons. Victor Mature. 133 min. Beta, VHS. Warner Home Video, 4000 Warner Blvd., Loren, Raf Vallone. 180 min. Beta, VHS. $79.98. CBS\/Fox. Burbank, Calif. 91522 (818-954-6000). $79.95. VCILV. $39.95. Vestron. Samson and Delilah Excalibur Color. 1951. Victor Mature. Hedy Lamarr, Color. 1981. Nicol Williamson. Nigel Terry, George Sanders. 128 min. Beta, VHS. Helen Mirren. 140 mm. (R) Beta, VHS. $49.95 (reissue)., LV. $35.95. Paramount. $59.95. Warner.. CED. RCA The Ten Commandments Color. 1956. Charlton Heston, Yul Brynner,","","WHAT\u2019S NEW merica\u2019s videophiles are spoiled rotten\u2014 OUR and proud of it. We already have VCRs and disc players and cameras. Some of us SEMIANNUAL m have even sprung for camcorders. And a SURVEY m few brave souls have taken the plunge OF NEW into the uncharted waters of 8mm. What\u2019s more, we like our toys. We\u2019re TRENDS AND not about to junk them, and if the PRODUCTS manufacturers want to entice us with some new video trinket\u2014it had better be pretty close Teknika, and Toshiba all announced to wonderful. and\/or displayed suspiciously similar-look\u00ac But look at it from their angle. Dealers don\u2019t stay rich on ing prototypical Super Beta decks at about what they sold us last year. They live by what we buy the same time. And yes, in every demon\u00ac today\u2014and in the months to come. And so the perennial stration we saw the picture was remark\u00ac game goes on. Tempt us with the new, the improved, the ably crisp and clear. Unfortunately, avail\u00ac slightly-to-very-much-better version of what we already ability information wasn\u2019t. If you\u2019re plan\u00ac have. The great American video dream is always changing. ning to camp in front of a video store until After all, we are spoiled. The video manufacturers have to Super Beta arrives, be sure to pack a keep dancing as fast as they can if they want us to stay lunch\u2014in fact, lots of lunches. It was interested. Here\u2019s our review of their very newest num\u00ac \u201cplease\u2014no photos\u201d and \u201csometime in bers\u2014and of what they hope we\u2019ll be dying to take home in mid-\u201985\u201d to all questions of \u201cwhen, the months ahead. already?\u201d Price? Something other than cheap. BY RICHARD Look! Up in the Sky! JACCOMA It\u2019s Super Beta, and it\u2019s the most im\u00ac Originally, the video rumor mill gave Su\u00ac per Beta an LV-conquering 400 lines of portant video news of the year. So far. resolution. That sharpness level was and is Sony has proudly announced its latest attainable\u2014but only by sacrificing compati\u00ac Beta advance\u2014a new improved recording\/ bility with current Beta decks. Sony made playback method. Super Beta will shift the the honorable choice by opting for compati\u00ac video carrier frequency 800kHz higher, for bility\u2014and took some of the wind out of its a cleaner signal with more usable informa\u00ac own sails in the process. But Super Beta is tion. The result, according to Sony, is a 20 still a marvel; such an advance that techni\u00ac percent gain in picture clarity\u2014300 lines of cal editor Lance Braithwaite calls it \u201ca for\u00ac horizontal resolution instead of the 250 mat enhancement so great that it redefines range common to current-generation the capabilities of half-inch consumer VCRs. Sony engineers also have installed a VCRs.\u201d new noise-reduction system and improved emphasis circuitry. Altogether, Super Beta promises clean video edits with mini\u00ac mal loss of color or detail even at the fourth generation. In recent demonstrations Super Beta did more than promise\u2014it delivered. Beta brands Aiwa, NEC, Pioneer, Sanyo,","Polaroid\u2019s 8mm system ($1650) has a range from 240 to 250). Add the VC-200 ka, and Toshiba will all be selling their 4.5-1. b. camcorder with CCD image sensor. camera with Saticon tube (3.3 pounds) and own versions of Betamovie the Third. you have a system in which weight is both The rumor mill is still churning\u2014and light and sensibly distributed. It\u2019s small But the newest VHS camcorders will credits the VHS camp with either being too\u2014the VR-E10 is only 6-5\/16 by 7-3\/8 by give son-of-son-of-Betamovie stiff com\u00ac close or not so close to announcing super 2-3\/8 inches. Which leads to the question of petition. No more VHSC cassettes\u201420- decks of its own. The one thing no one says whether you\u2019d rather hold four-plus pounds minute recording is a thing of the past. is that the VHS folks aren\u2019t interested in on your shoulder (as in a camcorder) or Several VHS companies have announced super decks. Finally, duty compels us to divvy up the weight between shoulder and they\u2019ll sell the latest Matsushita-built cam\u00ac mention (with no assertions as to its credi\u00ac hip, as with the Canon system. Until now, corder: Panasonic (Omnimovie), GE bility, of course) the particularly paranoid only Beta and VHS owners could make that (1CVM6060); Magnavox (VR8290), rumor that Super Beta is something of a decision of camcorder versus separates. and Quasar. The GE version has a low- ruse\u2014that Sony really plans to transfer its Choice is what home video is all about, and light (20 lux minimum) Newvicon tube, high-res technology to 8mm, when and if 8mm\u2019s recognition of that simple truth au\u00ac auto white balance, power zoom with mac\u00ac Sony 8mm lands on our shores. gurs well for its continued life. Maybe\u2014 ro focus, auto focus, auto iris, date-time just maybe\u20148mm will find its niche. (Can\u00ac character generator, and electronic view\u00ac 8mm-mmm! ovision 8 has a suggested retail price of finder. Playback is either through the EVF, $1200 for the recorder-tuner\/timer; $1000 or directly through a TV without need for There\u2019s lots of activity in the camp of the for the camera.) any interfacing device. The camcorder littlest format, and its ranks are swelling\u2014 weighs just over 7 pounds with battery and despite reports that Kodak\u2019s first try is Sanyo has introduced its own system of promises 270 lines of resolution. Newest less than a resounding success among 8mm separates too, the VCR88 recorder\/ and best of all, the camcorder uses a full- videophiles. player. The VCR88 operates on battery size VHS cassette for 2 hours of recording pack, AC, or 12V car battery. It features (with a T-120). Polaroid\u2019s 8mm system and GE\u2019s Uni- 7X forward and reverse scan, still frame, a Cam both retain the camcorder formula\u00ac built-in battery recharger, and a 140- Whether the new VHS camcorders win tion. Polaroid\u2019s light weight camcorder channel cable-ready tuner. But most im\u00ac any video popularity contests remains to (4.5 lbs.) uses a charge coupled device portant is the fact that it\u2019s a two-speed be seen. But win or lose, they score high (CCD) image sensor to overcome bum and machine\u2014offering up to three hours of re\u00ac on plain old common sense, and prove that lag, problems associated with tubes. Audio cording and playing time on an MP-90 the VHS pack can analyze the weaknesses uses an FM recording technique which de\u00ac cassette. of a prior design, junk what works poorly, livers a 30Hz-15kHz frequency response and come up with a better solution. Good (-3dB). The recorder plugs into a cradle for Camcorder Conflict for them. playback. Suggested retail for the Polaroid Regardless of 8mm\u2019s future, it\u2019s hardly a system is $1650. Polaroid is offering its TVs Great and Small own metal-particle (MP) 8mm cassettes. threat in the present. The camcorder bat\u00ac Mitsubishi recently unveiled\u2014hauled And TDK has developed a new high-densi\u00ac tle still rages primarily between Beta and ty MP tape, too, Super Finavinx P6- VHS. Now, the Sony empire strikes back the tarpaulin off, actually\u2014the largest- 90MP, especially formulated to help with its \u201cthird-generation Betamov- tube TV to become available to home squeeze higher performance out of 8mm ie.\u201d The BMC-550K uses a CCD solid- buyers. The 35-inch (diagonal) direct- systems. state pickup to avoid bum and lag. This view color set is a record-breaker CCD actually delivers slightly better low in more than tube size\u2014the weight of But the big news for the little format is light performance too (25 lux min.). The its CRT is considerable too\u2014in the that manufacturers are trying new com\u00ac low power consumption of the CCD chip neighborhood of 200 pounds. It won\u2019t binations. Canon\u2019s Canovision 8 system allows for longer field recording\u201490 min\u00ac be available here until next fall. looks like three-piece half-inch portable utes on one battery. The BMC-550K also The set provides 80 percent more viewing systems\u2014only more portable. The VR- features infrared autofocus and a reversi\u00ac area than a 25-inch set; and the square- E10 recorder weighs in at 3.2 pounds, and ble optical viewfinder which can adjust for comer tube engineered by Mitsubishi de\u00ac the VT-E10 tuner\/timer at 4.2 pounds. either left- or right-eye focusing. It records livers 170 footlamberts of screen bright\u00ac Recorder horizontal resolution is listed as up to 200 minutes on one L-830 cassette. ness, up to 400 lines of horizontal resolu\u00ac more than 230 lines (half-inch formats Aiwa, NEC, Pioneer, Sanyo, Tekni- tion with a direct video signal, and 330 lines 72 Video from broadcast. At a recent demonstration","the picture was marvelously clear and features a cable-ready tuner, stereo\/SAP be used as a video monitor. bright\u2014certainly superior to many projec\u00ac decoder, separate inputs for regular and Some people will buy most anything\u2014a tion TVs of comparable size. But Lord\u2014if premium cable channels, (with remote a picture tube of that size got tossed out of control for the former), and a comb filter. statue of Venus DeMilo with a clock in her the window at a rowdy party, we wouldn\u2019t This set looks like a real winner, and it\u2019s belly, for example. It should therefore want to be strolling in the neighborhood of been a long time coming. Watch these come as no surprise if Quasar\u2019s AP the implosion. Suggested retail price will pages for more about it\u2014much more. 1495YH becomes a big hit. Being touted be $3000 to $3500. as a \u201cfive in one, \u201d this model is a combina\u00ac Sony\u2019s KV-20XBR and 25XBR in\u00ac tion telephone, B&W TV, and AM\/FM Plain decent-quality low-cost TVs have corporate an improved microblack Trini\u00ac clock radio\u2014all of which can be made to been flooding stores for some time now, tron tube, which provides higher resolution add up to five. It\u2019s the perfect answer to and manufacturers seem to assume we and contrast. Both sets have built in stereo your most boring phone calls\u2014the TV to have all the no-frills color sets we want. decoders and cable tuner, and both come distract you, the clock\/radio to wake you The major new TVs are bigger, or smaller, with detachable speakers. Suggested retail when they\u2019re over. (Suggested list price or loaded with bells and whistles. High im\u00ac prices are $899.95 and $1199.95. for the AP1495YH is $179.95.) age resolution and built-in stereo\/SAP readiness are the names of the game. Sony also has been demonstrating TVs Of VCRs and VCPs of the further future\u2014multi-scan monitors As we said above, the major VCR news Toshiba\u2019s CZ-2685 is an FST (flat\u00ac using a special outboard digital scan con\u00ac test, squarest tube) TV, newest and big\u00ac verter to effectively double NTSC scan\u00ac \u2014Super Beta\u2014is actually a high-tech de\u00ac gest in the Video Logic Series. It has ning lines\u2014from 525 to 1050\u2014by digitally velopment announced, but still relatively built-in stereo\/SAP capability, direct com\u00ac calculating the lines between existing far from our homes. It is also a develop\u00ac puter input, COMPUT-R-TUNE 139- ones. The resulting apparent high-res ment that undoubtedly will mean still channel tuner, a 180-minute switch-off gives a bright flicker-free picture. timer, and on-screen time and channel dis\u00ac Sony\u2019s KV-20XBR ($899, TV only) play. The set is designed to integrate with Sanyo\u2019s AVM260 25-inch monitor-re\u00ac has built-in stereo decoding. ceiver has a 400-line picture and a stereo Sony\u2019s KV-25XBR ($1199.95) has a mi\u00ac amp capable of decoding MTS\/SAP audio. croblack tube and detachable speakers. It also features \u201csolar tune\u201d circuitry, which automatically adjusts brightness and Toshiba\u2019s A\/V System\u2014itself another en\u00ac contrast levels as room light changes. try in the super-system game also being Price is $849.95. played by such manufacturers as Jensen, JVC, Fisher, Mitsubishi, Proton, and Down at the other end of the telescope, Sansui\u2014and of course by RCA. Casio has a number of new products for (Dimensia is still far and away the leader those who don\u2019t believe bigger is better. of the pack in full system integration, and Its TV-1000 is a 2.6-inch color LCD TV probably will be until someone designs a measuring 6-3\/8 by 3-1\/4 by 1-3\/4 inches. way around all the system-integration pro\u00ac It\u2019s perfect for trafficjams, crowded buses, cess patents RCA owns). The heart of the required math classes\u2014the mind boggles Toshiba system is an A\/V controller that at all the potential modem applications for permits much mix-and-match switching this pocketable color set. Price is $299.95, between components. Suggested list price and picture quality is neither better nor for the 2685 is $1399. worse than you\u2019d expect from a set this size. Casio has also displayed a 6-inch flat- NAD\u2019s MR20 monitor\/receiver is a screen color set\u2014a prototype for a 12-inch high-performance high-resolution TV. It wall-hanging model it promises to bring out by the end of the year. Magnavox has its own tinyvision too. Its Escort models all have flat-display pic\u00ac ture tubes. Two are 2-inch B&W TVs that work on AC, batteries, or battery packs (BF 3900\u2014$160; BF 3901\u2014$220). The 3901 also has an AM\/FM stereo decoder built in. A 4-inch Escort (BF3904) has a tilted screen and an A\/V connector so it can","Sanyo\u2019s VCR 88 8mm system has 140-channel tuning capability and offers 3-hour recording. another round of format warfare and rival Overheard at a GoldStar press con\u00ac (VCP)\u2014play-only decks\u2014is definitely | system upgradings for the months and ference: a sales exec assuring wholesalers upon us too. As if to add insult to injury, j years ahead. But let us not forget that that when prices are cut on the new VCRs, GoldStar already has one. Its VCP VHS Hi-Fi isn\u2019t exactly ancient history they\u2019ll be \u201cprice protected\u201d through some '\u25a0 yet. There is lots of room to explore, fine sort of rebate program. The operative 4000M is listed at $349.95. tune, and generally improve the format. word was \u201cwhen, \u201d not \u201cif. \u201d The same exec 1 said GoldStar would have VHS Hi-Fi decks Quasar is a well-established brand Among the most interesting VHS Hi-Fi here by the summer. Hmmmm, disposable \u2014its announcement of a VCP, the entries is the Mitsubishi HS410. It won\u2019t VHS Hi-Fi\u2014now that might be worth wait\u00ac VH5050, gives the stamp of legitimacy to be available until next winter at the ear\u00ac ing for. the onslaught of the nonrecording decks. liest, but it\u2019s being planned as a new-gen- Quasar has further legitimized its newly eration of the 400UR. Like its predeces\u00ac The age of the videocassette player released VCP\u2014price is slated for the sor, it will feature a built in MTS\/SAP re\u00ac ceiver which automatically senses\u2014and continued on page 126 switches to\u2014stereo broadcast signal whenever it is present, one-touch Korean VHS VCRs enter the low-budget home-video fray (from top): Gold Star GMV- recording; and a 30-minute timer-backup 41FM ($399.95); Sampo VR 9500 ($419.95); Samsung VT-210T ($399). power supply to protect programmed set\u00ac tings against accidental unit power loss. But the HS410 will utilize four video heads instead of two, for improved performance. TEAC, of reel-to-reel and audio-cas\u00ac sette fame, has entered the fray with a VHS Hi-Fi deck. The MV-1000 is a solid first Hi-Fi venture. It doesn\u2019t have any new or unusual bells and whistles\u2014but it doesn\u2019t leave off any of those we\u2019d expect either. TEAC is also fielding a companion LV deck, the LaserMate LV-1000, and an LV\/CD combo deck, the LV-5000 DS \u2014though Pioneer did the latter first. (Suggested list prices are: MV-1000, $1400; LV-1000, $800; LV-5000DS, to be announced.) But perhaps the most intriguing and irtf- portant VCR news for the here and now is actually a series of tow-tech developments. As long expected, several Korean and Taiwanese manufacturers\u2014Gold Star, Samsung, and Sampo among them\u2014 have introduced low-priced VCRs. Sam- po\u2019s new front-loading VR 9500 is listed at $419.95. Gold Star\u2019s 2-head GMV-41FM is tagged at $399.95. Sam- sung\u2019sVT-210T is priced to compete. If those don\u2019t sound like a bunch of wildly great buys, just wait. The Korean com\u00ac panies are still stinging from recent charges that they \u201cdumped\u201d color TVs (sold them at unfairly low prices to gobble up a piece of the U.S. market). 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This is the first in a series of children\u2019s stories to be aired on the Disney Channel and available simultaneously on cassettes from King of Video and laser discs from Image Entertainment. Created, written and produced by Jeff Sherman, with music and lyrics by The Sherman Brothers. (Writers and producers of children\u2019s music from such popular Disney hits as Mary Poppins, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and The Jungle Book) \u201cThe Velveteer promises to This half-hour | with colorful I of all ages. AVAILABLE ON VHS & BETA for ONLY KINGo\/VIDEI","","\u00a3 M SOIJNl)ovie technology comes and goes, types of Dolby noise reduction: A (used ventional optical) soundtrack. But magnet\u00ac but Dolby Stereo\u2014the dimen\u00ac in professional recording studios), B, and ic tracks made prints extremely expen-, sional sound technique used in C. The last is the most recent type, show\u00ac sive and were subject to quick wear. It was virtually every \u201cmajor\u201d film released ing up in some new stereo gear. There is an impractical scheme, at best. When Dol\u00ac today\u2014is here to stay. In theaters where also Dolby the person: Ray Dolby, the au\u00ac by re-thought four-channel sound, the Dolby Stereo has been installed, the sound dio engineer whose invention carries his company sought both to improve the re\u00ac surrounds the audience, sweeping from name and who founded Dolby Labs. sponse of the optical soundtracks and to front to back with astounding realism. Its While Dolby cinema sound employs Dol\u00ac originate a new standard for multichannel debut marked the first widespread change by noise-reduction techniques, it is actually theater sound. in motion-picture sound in almost 50 years. a collection of special recording and sound- Flash back, for a moment, to the bally\u00ac Despite its popularity in theatrical presen\u00ac improvement techniques. Some of these, hoo of quadraphonic sound in the early tations, however, you may not be aware like equalization or sound \u201ctuning\u201d and bass 1970s. The most popular method of de\u00ac preceding page by Peter that it is possible to almost duplicate Dol\u00ac enhancement, are almost transparent to livering quad sound to the consumer was by\u2019s magnificent effect in your own living movie audiences. But Dolby Stereo also the SQ technique, which by a process room without investing in costly new hard\u00ac adds a third, distinct audio channel, the known as \u201cphase encoding\u201d tried to \u201cbury\u201d ware. Curious? We\u2019ll tell you how. \u201csurround\u201d track, to the mix, and it is this two more channels of sound in a standard effect that produces the most dramatic two-channel stereo record. Quad sounds of What's in a Name? results. course, died a swift death. Quad records First, though, you should know just During the 1950s and \u201960s, the only way required extra care in production, arid the what Dolby is, and how it works. Most to improve movie sound was to use film electronic circuits that decoded the addi\u00ac people know the name Dolby from the striped with a magnetic (instead of the con- tional channels were comparatively crude. o noise-reduction circuits found built into BY VIM ONOSKO But with slight variation, SQ\u2014as improved \u25a0\u00a7 almost every consumer audio-cassette by Tate, et al.\u2014lives on in Dolby Stereo. Dolby, you see, also uses phase encoding \u00a3 deck. For the record, there are three","to hide its rear surround channel. SQ\u2019s speaker arrangement is different\u2014 gram exactly as it is shown. Pay special the results were unmistakable. attention to the polarity of the speakers by Going Through Channels making certain that terminals marked \u201c + \u201d Dolby 35mm movie soundtracks contain Since then several consumer rear-chan\u00ac and are connected correctly at the nel decoders have appeared. Fosgate sells amplifier and to each speaker in the back. If two channels, which the company calls one, as does Pioneer Video and Surround speakers are unmarked and, instead, you \u201cleft total\u201d and \u201cright total.\u201d From these Sound Inc. These decoders sell for be\u00ac have plug-type connections, it is safe to come two other channels: \u201ccenter\u201d (behind tween $250 and $500. Genuine Dolby assume that the inside connector (or wire) the movie screen) and \u201csurround.\u201d The equipment, sold only to theaters, costs is the \u201c + \u201d lead, and the ouside (or shield) center channel is the sum of the left and from $5500 to $20,000. is the \u201c - \u201d lead. right tracks. It\u2019s what you\u2019d hear if the movie were presented in mono instead of But you can also get a kind of \u201ccon\u00ac Connect your standard stereo speakers stereo. Surround is the difference between sumer\u201d version of the Dolby effect for just in the ordinary way to your amplifier or the two. Because of an effect known as a few dollars worth of wire and connectors. stereo receiver. Connect the \u201c + \u201d (or \u201cphase cancellation, \u201d you won\u2019t hear much Here\u2019s how: \u201chot\u201d) leads of the second set of speakers of the surround track in a monophonic play\u00ac to the same terminals as the hot leads of back. It is, for all intents and purposes, Getting Wired the first set. But instead of connecting the truly buried in the stereo mix. Much sur\u00ac Back in the early 70s, Dynaco, a then- two \u201c - \u201d (or \u201cground\u201d) leads back at the round information is also canceled in the air amplifier, connect them to each other. If when the Dolby track is played in two-track famous maker of hi-fi components, pro\u00ac you have two sets of connectors on the stereo. In theaters, special circuitry\u2014 moted a scheme to decode the phase- amplifier (for \u201cA\u201d and \u201cB\u201d speakers) you greatly improved since the old days of quad encoded information in SQ quadraphonic might want to connect the front channel to sound\u2014decodes the rear-surround chan\u00ac sound. It was, in fact, outlined in a pam\u00ac A and the rear channel speakers to B. The nel so that it is almost completely free of diagram also shows an optional eight-ohm sound information, like dialogue, meant phlet packaged with a quad recording of resistor (which returns the correct speak\u00ac strictly for the front channels. The Flame, produced by Beach Boy Carl er impedance to this rather unorthodox Wilson. This Dynaco circuit is shown in connection) and a potentiometer to control Since the beginning of stereo home Figure 1. As you can see, it requires only the volume of the back speakers. Make video, which began with two-channel the addition of an extra set of speakers\u2014if sure the left and right connections from the LaserVision videodiscs, most movies re\u00ac you have them\u2014and no additional amplifi\u00ac disc player or tape deck are correct. corded in Dolby Stereo have been trans\u00ac cation. (Of course, you\u2019ll also need a stereo ferred from film to video with the two origi\u00ac videocassette recorder or disc player.) An alternative (and a preferable one) is nal Dolby soundtracks, left total and right Note that the sound coming from both back to use a second amplifier, which will give total, intact. Some experimenters discov\u00ac speakers is the same in all the systems you more control over the back-channel ered this years ago when they played mentioned except the Tate\/Fosgate. If you sound. This way you can adjust the tonal their early stereo LV discs through SQ want the effect of the fourth Dolby channel, quality and loudness of the surround decoders. Though it didn\u2019t sound right\u2014 the Center, simply turn up the speaker on your TV. continued on page 131 Be extremely careful to follow the dia\u00ac","","Mj ovie theaters have long reigned DIGITAL instrumental music composed and pro\u00ac as the grand purveyors of visual FILM TRACKS entertainment. With the latest in WILL SOUND duced by Moroder, plus songs by pop deluxe features such as enor\u00ac artists like Adam Ant, Billy Squier, Pat mous screens, large P.A. systems, com\u00ac BETTER Benatar, and Freddie Mercury. In the fortable seats, and air conditioning, it ATHOME theater, the film is a stirring juxtaposition wasn\u2019t hard for exhibitors to lure patrons of early film techniques and state-of-the- into the fantasy world of the silver screen. BYMARTIN art music. However, on videocassette, it PORTER seems likely that Metropolis will become But now, home video has seriously the ultimate music video\u2014a visually excit\u00ac jeopardized this role\u2014the home-video for\u00ac ing movie that can stand up to repeated mats have won a decisive victory over the plays, coupled with a high-end audio sound\u00ac movie theater in an equally crucial area: track that takes advantage of the dynamic sound. Pioneer\u2019s new LV\/CD player, and range offered by high-fidelity video to an only slightly lesser extent Beta and formats. VHS Hi-Fi, provide stiff competition for even the finest moviehouse audio. And The \u201cHi-Fi\u201d tapes on the market are with a new breed of digitally recorded indeed a marked improvement over stan\u00ac movies on the way, it now seems that dard mono or stereo video sound. those who really want to \u201chear\u201d these re\u00ac However, in audio at least, \u201cdigital\u201d leases will have to do their first-run listen\u00ac doesn\u2019t always mean \u201cpure digital. \u201d Com\u00ac ing (and viewing) at home. pact Discs may be promoted as the only commercial digital playback records, but New Metropolis often the CD digital mastering process is not enough to repent for the audio sins One of those leading the digital trend in committed in the original analog recording. Hollywood is producer\/composer Giorgio Keep in mind that tricky question of the Moroder, who works the recording-studio source material sold on a \u201cdigital\u201d Compact control room like a high-tech maestro. His Disc. Naturally, if you want to hear Furt- Los Angeles studio is filled with enough wangler or Toscanini on CD, what you\u2019ll be computer processing and recording equip\u00ac hearing is an analog recording pressed in a ment to create and preserve any kind of digital format\u2014not a production that is all- sound\u2014with a heavy emphasis on the digital, from recording to mastering to latest in digital audio equipment. choice of playback format. The same goes for Beta and VHS Hi-Fi. Though they Moroder is a musician and composer claim specs for wide dynamic range who thinks with his eyes as well as his ears. (80dB), as do CDs (an astounding llOdB), Though he is regarded as one of the found\u00ac they can\u2019t do their true stuff unless the ers of the disco beat and credited for dis\u00ac source material is of the highest grade. In covering Donna Summer, he is probably fact, in video, the opposite is usually the best-known for his soundtracks to Mid\u00ac case; video sound is usually slapped nightExpress and Flashdance, for which he together with audio tracks that had origi\u00ac won two Academy Awards. His traditional nally been geared for monophonic broad\u00ac medium isn\u2019t video\u2014like many of today\u2019s cast television or VCR release. MTV-oriented artists, Moroder\u2019s milieu is strictly film. However, you can\u2019t make \u201cSomebody had to start doing purely movies these days without editing sound\u00ac digital recordings,\u201d Moroder said in a re\u00ac tracks to video workprints. And you cer\u00ac cent interview. \u201cI don\u2019t think it\u2019s fair to tell tainly can\u2019t finance a motion picture without the audience it\u2019s a digital recording if the full evaluation of both theatrical and home- original is analog and only transferred to video release. digital.\u201d Things are about to change, though\u2014largely due to the home-video in\u00ac Home video will undoubtedly be the dustry\u2019s growing influence on motion-pic\u00ac medium by which most will be exposed to ture profits. Several other leading Holly\u00ac Moroder\u2019s most recent project\u2014his musi\u00ac wood producers and directors are now cal interpretation of the original Fritz Lang preparing their film epics with blow-away film classic Metropolis, which opened to sound quality\u2014with a not-so-distant eye wide box-office acclaim last summer. The new soundtrack to this silent film contains continued on page 132","p\\\\ease i \\\\","THE ART THE CHIP One Pixel is Wwth 1000 W>rds In the 20 years artists have ex- movement is its uniting of artists, who tradi\u00ac ! perimented with computers, simple im- tionally have shunned machines, and tech\u00ac j ages have given way to geometric pat- nicians, who are discovering their own kind of I. terns and then burst out in all direc\u00ac artistry. Though computer art began in the in\u00ac tions at once. Computer-generated art can dustrial world, graphics systems now are be\u00ac range from staggeringly accurate photographic ing developed for their own sake, for use in realism, to surrealism, to colorful extensions graphic arts, TV, and movies. Most computer of the visual imagination that extrapolate im\u00ac images are \u201capplied art\u201d\u2014meaning they are of ages from reality in a way that is at once commercial value. But that makes them no radical and recognizably electronic\u2014and im\u00ac less attractive or appealing. Here is a gallery possible to originate in any other medium. An of the best new computer graphics from the \u201celectronic look\u201d is emerging. But perhaps the most inventive labs and studios. greatest influence of the computer-graphics \u2014Tim Onosko","","and colors are the only concrete elements in much computer-generated art \u2014they become so vivid that they create a purely abstract realism of their own, as in 'Ray Tracing Spheres with Vases' on the preceding page. Yup, that\u2019s a purple sphere, all right! (\u2018Ray Tracing: Shaun Ho & Michael Collery, Technical Directors; hardware, Marc Howard.) The remainder of these land!space\/cavescapes are by Melvin L. Prueitt of the Los Alamos National Laboratory, and the spaces they show exist only in the artist's mind.","\\\\_A lockwise from right: Alva Ray Smith used particle systems to realize this complex photorealistic 31) background set for Lucasfilm in \u2018The Adventures of Andre & Wally B. \u2019 Los Alamos' Prueitt goes purple. Romantic skyline by John Ridgeway\/Geni graphics. Down the road into futurism with Herman Towles\/ Computer Creations. Through the computer into the 'Future' via Larry T. McCoy\/ Creative Technologies. And we wind up back where we started\u2014sort of\u2014with more purple spheres, or at least the word \u2018Spheres' on a purple background, by Stan Cohen & Todd Rodgers\/ Intelligent Light.","","NEWANGLES ON ULTRALIGHT SHOOTING by Norm Bendelt Through the Lens, In The Dark Crystal an elf wakes up Lightly design were to make \u201celectronic news- j staring into a witch\u2019s hand-held gathering\u201d (ENG) cameras as light and re- j eyeball. The witch turns her scrutiniz\u00ac cameras had to be fixed in space on a tri\u00ac sponsive as 16mm cameras, which meant a ing eye first in one direction, then in pod. They were little more than static pic\u00ac shoulder-resting up-against-the-head i the other before placing it back in its ture frames on the world. The screen be\u00ac camera. But with video the cameraman can 1 socket. That mobile eye is exactly what we came a stage on which the action took now focus and compose away from the j expect of today\u2019s film and video cameras. place. Movies, early television, and even lens. The camera can be an extension of j newsreels felt like spatially compressed the hand and imagination, instead of the | As camera equipment changes, so do plays. That\u2019s the way cameramen thought head and eye. j the ways it can see, and the ways we can about the medium because that was what ] observe through a camera. The newest the medium could do most easily. In the The latest offerings in ultra-small con- j video cameras are potentially as mid-1960s a lightweight 16mm documen\u00ac sumer cameras and camcorders are ; disembodied\u2014and as magical\u2014as the eye tary camera\u2014which could be held on the unique. They have no equivalents in pro- I of the witch. JVC\u2019s VideoMovie, the RCA shoulder, focused through the lens, and in fessional gear. They put techniques within \u201cSmall Wonder\\\" camera, and other feats of effect become part of the eye and head of the grasp of the average home shooter that j ultra-miniaturization are creating a new the cameraman\u2014revolutionized the look can only be replicated professionally using home-video vocabulary. of film. The camera could go places, highly specialized equipment. Maybe the abruptly change angle and perspective, and next chapter in video aesthetics will In the Beginning reveal a new reality to the audience. emerge from the home ranks. The technology of film and video has In a film camera the eye must be close to The mini-camera is casual, no big deal to always affected the way people see the lens because all the viewing and focus\u00ac carry around. You can take it backpacking through cameras. This is particularly true ing is done through an optical system. For a or hang-gliding, or bring it along to a gallery in documentaries (including home video), long time breakthroughs in video-camera opening or party. A camcorder like the where the object is to capture reality. In Betamovie or VideoMovie is good for the beginning, unwieldy motion-picture By John Bishop catching impressions of ongoing life in SB Video","I attached the camera to a broom handle, which allowed me to sweep it around at floor level. much the way people use 35mm still that I could hold it steady for long periods out. I\u2019ve tried the same with a video cameras. I\u2019ve always wanted to shoot mov\u00ac with my arm alone. With no cable and camera, with poor results. Framing goes ing images on the street the way Henry dangling VCR, I could make radical moves uncontrolled, and the horizon invariably Cartier-Bresson does with stills, but even quickly and easily. The electronic viewfind\u00ac crosses the screen at an odd angle. But super-8 was too expensive. The camcord\u00ac er was bright enough to frame and focus with the detached viewfinder to my eye, I er, like the 35mm camera, can always be with my eye two feet from the eyepiece, could raise the VideoMovie above my head there, always ready when you notice permitting me to hold the camera in my lap and make impeccably composed and fo\u00ac something, but not overwhelming to carry. or out to the side and still see what was cused shots. being recorded. There is no risk in trying something off- I also tried holding the camera with a the-wall in video because you can always The electronic viewfinder is detachable, relaxed, dropped arm, so I could follow a record over the tape. Half the fun is seeing so I patched an extension cable between person\u2019s feet as he walked. It is a dramatic what you can make the camera do. So you the camera and viewfinder, which enabled angle, with the ground moving over the can hold it like a microphone or turn it me to keep my eye on the image no matter screen and the feet relentlessly coming around and use it as a mirror. You can pass how or where I held the camera. This in\u00ac toward the camera. With the viewfinder to it around a group of people the way mi\u00ac creased flexibility enormously; the camera my eye I could make this shot work per\u00ac crophones are handed through church head was spatially and psychologically sep\u00ac fectly, though it would be impossible if my when people witness. arated from the seeing and thinking head. eye had to be up against the camera. (The particular plug and socket are used on In the macro mode, a small camera feels several brands of camera, but are not For candid video you can face away from like a recording magnifying glass as it ca\u00ac readily available as a spare part. JVC said it what you want to shoot, hold the viewfind\u00ac resses flowers or examines details of a will not make a viewfinder extension cable er to your eye, and point the camera in a painting. By moving in ways that our eyes unless there is a demand for them, and so completely different direction. Having a cannot, it shows us new worlds in familiar far only VIDEO\u2019S Roderick Woodcock and camera staring at them often makes people things. It can reach high or low, out the I have made such an inquiry.) uneasy and alters their behavior, but this window or around the comer. It can shoot unobtrusive technique does not signal to from inside the fishbowl. The new camera The advantage of having the viewfinder people that they are on the air. Con\u00ac is a playful and inquisitive eye\u2014an eye that and camera separate is that you can put the sequently you have the potential to capture isn\u2019t afraid to see the world turned upside- more subtle and delicate moments. down. camera in places where you cannot put your head. The \u201cHail Mary, \u201d for example, Big Small Wonders Making VideoMovies was invented by press photographers who RCA\u2019s CKC-020 \u201cSmall Wonder\u201d had to get a shot even when their view was The first thing I found about VideoMov- obscured by a crowd of people. They camera is a solid-state MOS model. The ie was that it was too small to rest on my would hold the camera over their heads, lens is the heaviest and most bulky part, shoulder without a pad or extension base. squeeze off a few frames, and say a \u201cHail but the unit as a whole is so compact that it However, it was so light and well-balanced Mary, \u201d hoping that the picture would come feels like an extension of your hand. The kids handled the camera as if it were a reporter's microphone, pointing, probing, exploring.","Although the viewfinder is easily removed cause all that intruded was a small camera, overhead shot. This could be fixed by a from the camera, doing so leaves an ex\u00ac not a full-size cameraman. You can move in posed hole in the camera case. Further\u00ac really close in tight spaces\u2014for example, remote pivoting head on the broom handle, more, I didn\u2019t have the materials to make right over a violinist\u2019s shoulder so the an extension cord. So I attached a battery camera is only inches from the bridge. To but RCA wanted its camera back, and my operated monitor to the video output of the do this with a conventional camera would VCR for my remote viewfinder. (The JVC crowd the musician, both physically and by experiments came to an end (for the mo\u00ac TM-P3U miniature three-inch color moni\u00ac intruding on psychological space. tor is excellent for this purpose.) ment). The kids got tired of fighting and took I discovered that holding the CKC-020 over the camera. They tilted it so they I had just invented a handheld version of out the window (or sunroof) of a car pro\u00ac came out upside down and sideways. They duced some of the best-composed, steadi\u00ac moved in for macro closeups of lips and the \u201cLoomis crane,\u201d a device that has put est, and most easily accomplished moving- eyes, and generally created a tight video vehicle shots I had ever made (and I love reality of themselves. They handled the crane shots back in Hollywood movies. In making those shots). The key element was camera as if it were an investigative report\u00ac having the remote viewing screen. I sat er\u2019s microphone, pointing, probing, ex\u00ac the past, to get a high angle shot where the back in the seat, put my arm out the win\u00ac ploring. The camera alone was inserted dow, and had complete control of what I into the scene, not a person plus camera. camera starts on the ground and then was shooting. With a heavier camera and In fact, the child holding the camera often no remote viewer, you have to hang out turned it on himself when he wanted to swings up to a high vantage point (lots of the window with the camera, put your eye speak. The camera was being treated as an to the viewfinder, and try to hold steady. autonomous perceiver, not as an extension those shots appear in Errol Flynn movies), of the operator. The feeling that the camera is an exten\u00ac a crane that could hold the camera, sion of the hand is enhanced by its light\u00ac Eye on a Stick ness. There is no strain holding it above If you can handle a camera like a hand\u00ac cameraman, director, and maybe an assis\u00ac your head or out to the side. I tried some bird\u2019s-eye shots of children wrestling on held mic, then you probably can handle it tant had to be used. But the lightweight the living-room floor by holding the camera like a room mic. With plenty of gaffer\u2019s as high up as I could and pointing it down. (I tape, I attached the camera to a broom Loomis crane raises only the video- composed and focused on a large console handle, which allowed me to stand up com\u00ac TV.) After a bit, I lowered the camera from fortably and sweep the camera around at assisted camera. The crane operator, the overhead position to ground level in floor level or drive a riding lawnmower and one smooth move. The feeling on the simultaneously hold the camera inches focus puller, and director watch on a re\u00ac screen is of spatial freedom and unpredict\u00ac from the front tire. These are dramatic able fluidity of movement. The big advan\u00ac point-of-view shots. By changing the angle mote video viewfinder. But the Loomis tage of a shoulder-held camera is that it at which the camera met the pole, the frees you to move around the room in any broom gave me greater reach above my crane has to hold a 40-pound camera, and direction. The hand camera affords a sim\u00ac head. Bird\u2019s-eye views 12 feet off the ilar freedom in the vertical plane. ground became routine. The boom camera thus requires a heavy stand and counter\u00ac peered around comers, over hedges, and With the lens set at maximum wide angle within inches of a hornets\u2019 nest. weights. My broom-handle camera and close focus, I moved it in and around the squirming kids. Some angles worked, Having the camera fixed to the pole at a weighed next to nothing. There is no pro\u00ac others did not; but they were all different, constant angle was limiting. For example, more engaging and intimate than what I had it was theoretically possible but difficult to fessional equivalent in film or video. been used to seeing. In part this was be\u00ac swing from a ground-hugging shot to a high Emboldened by my success (and imagin\u00ac ing enormous future royalties), I next tried a handheld version of Garrett Brown\u2019s lat\u00ac est invention, the Skycam, a remote- controlled camera that swoops around on a set of cables and was used extensively covering the 1984 Olympics. My modest variant treats the camera as a marionette. I made an X of two strips of wood, each 18 inches long, and mounted an old camera in the center. A wire was attached to each of the four ends of the X and attached to the corresponding point on an identical X which I held in my hand. The camera hung from these four wires and I could move it over the ground by moving my arm. The X allowed me to fly it over the ground. Tip\u00ac ping up my hand brought up the camera nose; tilting to the side banked the camera. It gave me a whole new perspective on my son\u2019s electric train. a \u25a0 or candid video, hold the viewfinder and point the camera in a completely different direction.","Don\u2019t miss the spectacular May issue of VIDEO. Our programming special gives you the most comprehensive lineup ever\u2014complete coverage of the vast, exciting world ofprerecorded tapes and disks, including all the latest releases for April, May, and June. \u2022 The Hot 100 Tapes \u2022 Exclusive Clint Eastwood Interview \u2022 The Truth About Excerise Tapes \u2022 The Where and Why of Tape Prices \u2022 Is Rock Video too Violent? \u2022 Special Expanded Program Section...and MORE. 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Only one control stands out: the I which joined the JVC\u2019s own Hi-Fi VCR. In addition to its red Record button. However, the Power j video revolution Hi-Fi capability it offers a mono TV tuner button\u2019s legend is printed in orange, and about a year ago and simulcast recording capability, so you Eject in blue. The one-touch-record button j with the introduc\u00ac may use one of the external BTSC receiv\u00ac has a red dash on it. The VCR weighs just I tion of the SV- ers to capture BTSC broadcasts. There 20.7 pounds and is 4-3\/16 inches high by R9000 VCR, reviewed in July 1984. It also are the usual manual and automatic audio 17-1\/8 wide by 14-15\/16 deep. I offers a PCM (pulse code modulation) level controls, and two sets of audio out\u00ac j adapter (PC-X1, September 1984) that puts so that you may leave the Hi-Fi output At the left side is a column of five buttons j records audio in digital form on the permanently connected to a stereo sys\u00ac with a moderate-size power button at the video tracks of a VCR. Sansui\u2019s current tem. Its linear stereo tracks offer switch- top. Below it are three smaller buttons for j VCR is made to its specifications by JVC able Dolby noise reduction, and you may timer On\/Off, SP\/EP record-speed select, I and the company expects to have its own audio dub new sound onto those tracks and Video\/TV switching. At the bottom is ] manufacturing facility shortly. In the mean\u00ac without affecting the Hi-Fi tracks. Video the moderate-size Eject button. Like most time, Hi-Fi VCRs have been introduced, insert is also possible; however, when you JVC-built machines it does not record at j and in this business you either keep up or replace the picture you always replace the LP speed, though it plays tapes re- ] get out. So instead of waiting until its plant the Hi-Fi tracks at the same time, though corded at that speed. It also uses the EP J goes on line, Sansui chose to keep up by you may preserve the original sound on the (extended play) designation instead of the> introducing a Hi-Fi VCR made byJVC. The linear tracks. These features are well- more common SLP (super long play). Play- way we read that is that Sansui plans on chosen and give the video hobbyist a wide speed selection is automatic. Next to the staying in video for the long haul and range of features for creating home videos. 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Box 67 Port Orange, Florida 32029 | Sansui SV-R9900HF VHS Hi-Fi VCR U.S.A. 800-874-5906 DATA preserved \u25a0 FLORIDA 800-342-49001 Date of test: January 1985 Auto rewind: yes Suggested retail price: $1299 Linear (longitudinal track) stereo: Weight: 20.7 pounds Dimensions: 4-3\/16 x 17-1\/8 x 14-15\/16 yes inches (h\/w\/d) Hi-Fi: yes Power requirements: 120VAC, 60Hz Audio only record: yes Power consumption: 40W (50W with Tuning method: frequency synthesis camera) Channel selectors: up\/down scan on Tape format: VHS VCR; random access plus up\/down scan Tape speeds: SP, EP (SLP), record: on remote SP, LP, SLP, playback Preset method: add\/delete from scan se\u00ac Play speed select: automatic quence Still frame: yes Cable readiness: 139 channels Frame Advance: yes (press Frame Ad\u00ac AFC: switchable vance button again) Channel lock: yes Slow motion: see speed play Timer: 8 programs, 14 days Speed play: variable\u20141\/40, 1\/20, 1\/10, Auto channel-change: yes 1\/5, normal, 3X, 5X, 7X in either direc\u00ac Accessories: remote control, battery for tion selectable with the same rocker remote control, T-30 cassette, 75-ohm switch (no sound) cable, matching transformer, audio cable Rapid search: see \\\"Cue & review\u201d (supplied) Cue & review: 7X in either direction, at all speeds using the Fast Forward and Re\u00ac RESULTS & RATINGS wind buttons Horizontal resolution: 250 lines Visible FF and Rew: no S\/N, video luminance: 43.4dB, un\u00ac Remote pause: only through camera weighted; 47.8dB, weighted jack S\/N, chroma AM: 47.8dB Remote: wireless IR with buttons for S\/N, chroma PM: ll.4dB Audio frequency response: 20- power on and off, random access and scan 20,000Hz, +0.2, -2.1dB, Hi-Fi; 70- tuning, TV\/Video, forward and reverse 10,000Hz, -3dB. SP linear: 70-6000Hz, search, fast forward, rewind, stop, play, -3dB, EP linear pause\/still, record, audio dub S\/N, audio: 43dB, linear tracks Separate eject: yes Dynamic range: 82dB. Hi-Fi tracks Counter digits: 4 switchable to time- Audio distortion: O f\/;, Hi-Fi: 2.3% linear remaining indicator Overall picture quality: excellent Counter memory: yes Audio quality: excellent, Hi-Fi; ex\u00ac Program start locator\/index\/cue: yes cellent, linear Audio dub: yes Ease of operation: very good (see text) Video dub: yes; hi-fi audio replaced at Overall performance: excellent the same time, linear track audio may be","VAUDIO SYSTEM MANAGER \u2014 Figure 1: Build A Four Camera Studio Use vsm as a Figure 3: A Super, Home Set-Up Over 3 million switch routing switcher, and Hybrid-8 as an S.E.G. Get great results. combinations. Integrates all A, V and RF components. Easy For Non-Technical Persons from\/to operation is so straight-forward, everyone gets immediate benefit from VSM. 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Depending on the position of the switch the VCR will stop at counter zero, at the end, or at every cue mark in fast- forward and rewind modes. Cues are put on the tape each time you start a recording from stop. The last control in that group is a rotary switch which lets you select audio and video inputs for recording with posi\u00ac tions for TV (tuner), simulcast, Aux (line), or Camera. That\u2019s not all\u2014the remainder of that area seems blank except for the legend \u201cPush-Open,\u201d but a push makes a spring-loaded drawer slide open, and in\u00ac side are all of the controls for setting the clock, timer, TV\/CATV tuning sequence, AFC, and adding or deleting channels from the scan sequence. The top, bottom, and sides are bare ex\u00ac cept for air holes and hand holds. The bot\u00ac tom has just the headphone low\/high volume control switch and air holes; however, the back is a little different from some other VCRs. The AC cord and con\u00ac venience outlet are common, as are the VHF and UHF inputs and outputs and Channel 3\/4 RF output selector. The first rarity is a 10-pin camera input which has been gaining popularity in the last two years. It allows you to use a camera with table-model VCRs without a camera adapt\u00ac er. The second is two sets of audio out\u00ac puts. One of these carries only the Hi-Fi output, so you can leave the Hi-Fi sound permanently connected to your stereo sys\u00ac tem. The second pair of audio outputs can carry either the linear or Hi-Fi audio or a mixture of the two. This output is available for connecting to other VCRs or monitor\/ receivers. The audio inputs and video in\u00ac puts are standard. The last rarity is a switch labeled Dynamic Apcon (Dynamic aperture control) which lets you select a more noise-free picture at the expense of sharpness. The use of this switch is recom\u00ac mended only if the TV signals you receive are weak and noisy. It is a compromise that some prefer over grainy, snowy pictures. The remote control has no surprises. It sports separate buttons for On and Stand\u00ac by (Off), a 10-key pad for random-access selection of TV channels, up\/down scan selectors, TV\/Video switch, and transport controls that mirror those on the VCR. Operation. Other than our usual com\u00ac ment on how manuals should be improved for first-time VCR owners, using the 9900 is a breeze. If you\u2019re not scared of me\u00ac chanical toys you can understand most operations on your own after you find the hidden compartments. Even if you\u2019re fa\u00ac miliar with VCRs, you\u2019ll probably need at least a quick look at the manual to get the best out of the special search feature\u2014 however, the wide variety of choices makes it more than worthwhile. Some ex-","NEW YORK CALIFORNIA TEXAS MISSOURI UTAH IDAHO LOUISIANA FLORIDA SOUTH CAROLINA MINNESOTA NEW MEXICO MARYLAND \u25a0\u2022SB?! 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