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	Maag Library--How to Find Film Research
		American Film Institute Catalog of Feature Films, 1911-1920 and 1921-1930, 1931-1940, 1941-1950, and 1961-1970.
		Annual volumes reprint in their entirety reviews of major films from selected newspapers, general circulation periodicals, and film magazines.
		Film as Literature, Literature as Film: An Introduction to and Bibliography of Film's Relationship to Literature (1987).
	www.maag.ysu.edu /guides/film.html (1437 words)

	ASCAP Board of Directors: Jay R. Morgenstern
		From February 1976 to April 1979 he was President of American Broadcasting Music, Inc., Vice President/General Manager of ABC Records, International Division, Director of Anchor Records and Music Ltd., and Music Consultant to ABC Circle Films Companies, which were sold to MCA in March 1979.
		Prior to joining Warner Bros, Morgenstern served from April 1979 to December 1981 as Vice President/General Manager of Infinity Music Publishing, Inc. Records International Division.
		Other positions held by Morgenstern were: President of Music Maximus and Theatre Maximus; Executive Vice President/General Manager of Metromedia Music and Records; Executive Vice President/General Manager of Valando Music Inc. and Sunbeam Records, Inc.
	www.ascap.com /about/board/morgenstern-bio.html (1437 words)

	American International Pictures
		In 1956 ARC was renamed American International Pictures, but its teenage marketing target remained the same, most notably with the special-effects horror films of Bert I. Gordon.
		The two were the first to realize the potential ticket buying power of the teenage audience and over the next 30 years bombarded them with action, comedy and horror films.
		merican International Pictures was created in 1954 as American Releasing Corporation by James H. Nicholson, sales manager of the RealArt Production Company, and Hollywood lawyer Samuel Z. Arkoff.
	www.houseofhorrors.com /aip.htm (2344 words)

	Manhattan (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The film is consistently on the Internet Movie Database's list of top 250 films and was #46 on American Film Institute's 100 Years, 100 Laughs.
		Auteurist film critic Andrew Sarris notably praised Manhattan as "the only truly great American movie of the 1970s."
		In 2001 the United States Library of Congress deemed the film "culturally significant" and selected it for preservation in the National Film Registry.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Manhattan_(1979_movie) (357 words)

	Manhattan movie info - dvds
		Easily of of the best American films of all time, Allen examines relationships and life in this funny/bittersweet story set with NYC as the backdrop.
		MANHATTAN is a gorgeous, vibrant comedy that explores the changing state of relationships in the New York of the late 1970s, capturing that moment in time with charm, intelligence, and lots of laughs.
		Plot: MANHATTAN is Woody Allen's glorious love letter to the city that he was born to make films about.
	www.mooviees.com /588-manhattan/movie (538 words)

	Skinhead
		American skinheads have also accepted hardcore punk, born out of the New York City metropolitian area.
		Most skinheads deny that their group was recruited to engage in racist and criminal activity by this organization, claiming that the National Front recruited street youth, shaved their heads to give them the appearance of skinheads, and paid them to bully, threaten and even commit violence upon immigrant workers.
		Each category of skinhead may be considered to be hostile to a number of other groups, though violence is the exception to a rule of name-calling, harassment and defamation behind closed doors.
	www.usedaudiparts.com /search.php?title=Skinhead (538 words)

	Wikinfo John Wayne
		Wayne appeared in many strong masculine roles in western films and war films, but he also had a down-to-earth sense of humor that allowed him to appear in a pink bunny suit for an episode of Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In, as well as in comedy movies.
		John Wayne died of lung cancer on June 11, 1979 in Newport Beach, California, and was interred in the Pacific View Memorial Park cemetery in Corona del Mar, Orange County, California.
		John Wayne (May 26, 1907 — June 11, 1979), nicknamed "Duke," was an American film actor whose career began in silent movies in the 1920s.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=John_Wayne (2361 words)

	Rembrandt Films, Animations, Zagreb, Sofia, Trnka, Nudnik
		Alexander Buchman, who produced The Animation Century, is president of Avrora Media, which since 1992 has produced six feature films including Mute Witness, distributed in the United States by Columbia Pictures, and An American Werewolf in Paris, distributed by Buena Vista, and Little Vampires distributed by New Line.
		With offices in Berlin, Amsterdam and Los Angeles, Avrora currently has three live action and three animated theatrical films in production.
		They were animated by Konstantin Bronzit, winner of numerous awards including the 1995 Grand Prize at the Annecy Animation Festival and three major prizes at the 1999 Festival.
	www.rembrandtfilms.com /animated-century.htm (2361 words)

	Dennis Hopper
		By the early 80s, his drug habits and erratic behavior had virtually sent him into exile, although he reveled in the role of the ugly American.
		For the next 15 years Hopper acted mostly in films shot outside the US, where audiences remained loyal to his impervious, impenetrable American swagger.
		While acting in OUT OF THE BLUE (1980), a Canadian film shot in the US, he took over direction of the film in mid-production.
	theoscarsite.com /whoswho5/hopper_d.htm (2361 words)

	Archive of past screenings: 2000 Schedule: Mary Pickford Theater (Motion Picture and Television ReadingRoom, Library ofCongress)
		Our Spirit of '76 series begins with a number of early films and short films on various aspects of the American Revolution, as introduced by MBRS staff member Brian Taves.
		From 1953-1979, Nigel Kneale authored a series of television miniseries for the BBC recounting the science fiction exploits of Professor Quatermass, who encounters and defeats alien invasions in a number of forms.
		This rollicking, uproarious comedy is French humor at its best and most universally appealing, although this film has almost never been seen in the United States outside of its original theatrical release.
	www.loc.gov /rr/mopic/pickford/2000-archive.html (2361 words)

	Bernard Quatermass - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Professor Bernard Quatermass is a fictional character, created by the writer Nigel Kneale originally for BBC Television, who appeared in three influential BBC science fiction serials of the 1950s, and made his swansong in a final serial for Thames Television in 1979.
		The first two films, The Quatermass Xperiment ( 1955) and Quatermass 2 ( 1957), were directed by Val Guest and starred American actor Brian Donlevy, the only man to play the character twice on screen.
		Quatermass and the scientist Joe Kapp establish that an alien force is causing the downturn of society and Quatermass forms a plan to force the intruder away by the detonation of a nuclear device: he presses the button to detonate it himself, and is killed in the blast as the planet is saved.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bernard_Quatermass (2361 words)

	The world's top atari 2600 websites
		By 1979, the 2600 was the best selling Christmas present (and console), mainly because of its exclusive content, and a million were sold that year.
		The most notorious of these, Custer's Revenge caused a large number of protests from women's groups and Native American groups.
		A new version of the 2600 was released in 1986 in a smaller, cost-reduced form factor with a modernized Atari 7800-like appearance, along with a resurgence in software development both from Atari and from third parties.
	dirs.org /wiki-article-tab.cfm/atari_2600 (2361 words)

	itv
		Euston Films however, would only back the project if it was written to work in two forms, the four separate one hour episodes and a shortened single film to be commercially released and to be sold abroad, entitled The Quatermass Conclusion.
		Many shows came from over at Lew Grades ITC, however offerings from HTV, Thames and Euston Films have
		When news seeps through the this happening the world over the retired Quatermass is catapulted back into the role of saving the world from alien intervention.
	www.planet625.com /progs/cult/itv (2361 words)

	Quatermass (1979)
		Plot : The aging Professor Quatermass travels to a future London where society is decaying at the edges to take part in a tv commentary for an historical Russian-American space linkup.
		This Quatermass is even a different person in the casting of John Mills, a diminutive man who is almost the complete antithesis of brutish Brian Donlevy from the first two Quatermass films or the more authoritative Andrew Keir in
		In the 1950s Quatermass was a bold adventurer - at the end of
	www.moria.co.nz /sf/quatermass4.htm (2361 words)

	DVD Talk > Reviews > The Quatermass Xperiment (Region 2)
		The Quatermass stories are the creation of Manxman Nigel Kneale, and with each story he delved deeper and more intelligently into areas of science fiction frequently explored in literature but almost never on television and even less so in films.
		Quatermass (American actor Brian Donlevy), head of the Rocket Group and under pressure from both the press and the British government for answers concerning the unsanctioned flight, investigates.
		The Quatermass Xperiment 's strengths are the vividness and intelligence of Neale's storytelling, and the sense of urgency given the film version by director and co-screenwriter Val Guest.
	www.moviereviewindex.com /getreview/152705 (2361 words)

	The Quatermass Experiment
		The popularity of The Quatermass Experiment did not go unnoticed in the film world, and Hammer Films quickly purchased the rights to make a feature film adaptation, which was released in 1955 and starred the American actor Brian Donlevy.
		It was the first of four Quatermass serials to be screened on British television between 1953 and 1979.
		The Quatermass Experiment is a British television science-fiction serial, transmitted by BBC Television in the summer of 1953.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/T/The-Quatermass-Experiment.htm (2361 words)

	Steven Spielberg Bography Page 2
		Not every Spielberg film has received acclaim however, as proven by the disastrous failure of the film 1941, his first attempt at comedy (released in 1979).
		He is also the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Film Institute and the prestigious Irving G. Thasberg Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
		E.T. was in fact the first movie to be produced by Amblin Entertainment, a production company formed by Spielberg in 1982 carrying the name of his first big break in the business.
	www.filmmakers.com /artists/spielberg/biography/page2.htm (806 words)

	June 2, 2004
		Films on Ballet and Modern Dance: Notes and a Directory (New York: American Dance Guild, 1974) (includes extensive analysis of Humphrey's "Passacaglia" and Graham's "Night Journey")
		Analytic lecture on the second sound track of The Criterion Collection laserdisc edition of the film, Swing Time (New York and Los Angeles: Janus Films and Voyager Press, 1986)
		19 min., 1979 (processing of historic silent film from 1955 showing a performance of the Jose Limon work as danced by the original cast, and synchronization of the music score)
	psweb.sbs.ohio-state.edu /faculty/jmueller/vita.htm (806 words)

	American Graffiti (1973)
		Creating a demand for other popular teen-oriented films, a less successful sequel was also produced - director Bill W. Norton's More American Graffiti (1979) that covered the years 1964-67.
		Young George Lucas' influential hallmark film American Graffiti (1973) recreates the feel, landscape, and sounds of early 60s, small-town America - an historical time period (of JFK's Presidency and the New Frontier before the jarring assassination of late 1963 and the rest of an unpredictable era) that has since been irretrievably lost.
		The trailer for the PG-rated film begins with the opening of a 1962 high school yearbook, accompanied by the voice of Wolfman Jack announcing: "American Graffiti.
	www.filmsite.org /amerg.html (2861 words)

	Meryl Streep
		Meryl Streep (born June 22, 1949) is an American actoractress who has received numerous accolades for her work in movies and television and who, from the 1980s/ to the present day, has been regarded as one of the best in her field.
		Streep currently has five different films in various stages of production for release in 2005, 2006, and 2007, and remains one of the most respected actors in history.
		Having been named on so many greatest movie star lists, Streep also defied expectations by her happy home life—marriage to sculptor Don Gummer, with four children—and her truthful approach toward the industry and her own presence within it.
	www.infothis.com /find/Meryl_Streep (1322 words)

	The Grand Dames of the Horror Film: Maria Ouspenskaya and Una O’Connor
		In the 1933 film reprise of the role, her character is easily the film’s most appealing and real.
		Though the film is uneven, sometimes brilliant, sometimes only adequate, the chemistry between Larry and Maleva is just as solid and real as in their first outing, making F.M.t.W.M. another of the better Universals of the ‘40s.
		In 1923 the Moscow Art Theater toured Europe and the U.S.; in 1924, when the troupe returned, Ouspenskaya remained in the U.S., where another Stanislavski alumnus got her work teaching at the American Laboratory Theater in New York.
	www.monsterzine.com /200107/granddames.php3 (1560 words)

	Films & Books
		A very suave Dracula resurrects Frankenstein, The Wolfman, The Mummy and the Gillman in a small American town in order to find a secret amulet.
		A little slow in places, but the film still packs more of a punch than any subsequent effort and the climax remains breathtaking more than 40 years on.
		Religion, myth, magic, legend and fact all come together in his handy reference guide to the many different species of vampire around the world.
	www.bitememagazine.com /packages/old/films/index.html (1560 words)

	US cable channel whitewashes the CIA - Into the Shadows: The CIA in Hollywood, written, produced and directed by Charles C. Stuart
		The US cable television channel American Movie Classics (AMC), devoted to broadcasting Hollywood films of the past, aired its own special on December 4.
		In one case Hollywood talent was used to effect the 1979 escape from Iran of six American diplomats.
		In order to appease the angry Iranian populace and perhaps win the release of the American hostages held by the students, thought was also given at the time to a scheme to fake the death of the shah, who was in the US undergoing cancer treatment.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2001/dec2001/cia-d12.shtml (1560 words)

	100 Greatest American Movies by the AFI
		More than half of the films (56) were made between 1950 and 1979, thereby ignoring cinema's early years and some of the modern era.
		And 70 of the films on the list were from 1950 and after.
		Marlon Brando was the only actor to star in two of the top 10 films,
	www.filmsite.org /afi100films.html (790 words)

	Actor Profile: John Wayne/Brian W. Fairbanks-Writer
		When he died on June 11, 1979, flags were flown at half-mast throughout the country in recognition of an American legend.
		It is in this film that John Wayne fully became "John Wayne," and achieved a stardom that would soon reach beyond the silver screen into the soul of American society.
		Ironically, Wayne, who angered John Ford by avoiding service in WWII for fear it would interrupt the momentum of his career, would be identified in many people’s minds as having won that global conflict single-handedly, thanks to films like The Sands of Iwo Jima.
	www.angelfire.com /oh2/writer/johnwayne.html (3468 words)

	Pryor, Richard
		Richard Pryor: Live in Concert (1979), considered by critics one of his best concert films and his first concert released to theaters, showcased Pryor and his unique ability to capture ethnic humor and make it acceptable to a mainstream audience.
		Simultaneously, his concert films, full of his impersonations, cockiness, and assertiveness, and balanced by his perceptive vulnerability achieved wide audience appeal and became legendary in their content.
		Richard Pryor, comic, writer, television and film star was the first African American stand-up comedian to speak candidly and successfully to integrated audiences using the language and jokes blacks previously only shared among themselves when they were most critical of America.
	www.museum.tv /archives/etv/P/htmlP/pryorrichar/pryorrichar.htm (1121 words)

	Recorded Books and Films Media Group Sign Distribution Agreement for North American Public Library Market (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
		Recorded Books, the world's premier publisher of unabridged audiobooks since 1979 and a fully owned Haights Cross Communications company, has signed an exclusive agreement with Films Media Group, based in Lawrenceville, NJ, to distribute FMG's collection of educational media to public libraries in the United States and Canada.
		Recorded Books and Films Media Group Sign Distribution Agreement for North American Public Library Market (Business Wire via Yahoo!
		Franchise Protection: Laws Against Termination and the Establishment of Additional Franchises (Monograph (American Bar Association.
	audiotrails.com /m/c/12391/c_adult_audio_books_20771.html (1121 words)

	Native American Film Producers -
		The American Indian Film Institute (AIFI) is a non-profit media arts center founded in 1979 to foster understanding of the culture, traditions and...
		NATIVE AMERICAN FILMS Kumeyaay Movies REELS Kumeyaay Bird Singing Powwow Movie
		American filmmakers and apply it to fostering native film sectors.
	www.native.fajf.com /index.php?k=native-american-film-producers (1121 words)

	N.B.-produced Mi'kmaq film series to premiere in New York City (03/08/15)
		As part of the museum, the George Gustav Heye Centre is dedicated to the collection and exhibition of native arts and crafts as well as to public programs and information services concerning films, video, radio and electronic media by and about indigenous peoples of North, Central, South America and Hawaii.
		Since 1979, the centre has presented 10 Native American Film and Video festivals in New York, featuring outstanding new works from throughout the Americas.
		FREDERICTON (CNB) -- A New Brunswick produced film series, featuring stories about the Mi'kmaq people of Atlantic Canada, will premiere at the Native American Film and Video Festival in New York City from Dec. 3-7.
	www.gnb.ca /cnb/news/bnb/2003e0700bn.htm (1121 words)

	The Best of the Movies' First Century
		The next step I took to determine my list of 100 favorite flicks was to sift through the 300 films that didn't make the AFI final 100 (listed on their website - http://AFI.100movies.com).
		The AFI top 100 films were chosen by a blue-ribbon panel of more than 1500 film "leaders," including artists in front of and behind the camera, critics, historians, movie executives and exhibitors.
		One such film is Days Of Heaven (1978), which perfectly captures the plight of migratory workers on the sweeping golden wheat fields of the American Midwest.
	www.bayweekly.com /year98/lead6_36.html (1121 words)

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