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Its two “bests” were in the ond best in the red purity evaluation and the color purity test, it seemed to have a disc resolution test—I counted 370 lines— displayed the most evenness in both the and the white level test. red and white purity tests. hot spot in the center of the screen. The If I were to decide only on the basis of I scored the Sony best in the SMPTE picture had a bluish cast that was less pro- the tests which TV I wanted to take home, resolution test and second in contrast per- nounced than the Sony’s yellow cast. The the Mitsubishi would have won (even though, despite its crisp picture, I counted contrast test showed the Quasar’s great- only 340 lines of resolution). However, based on watchability, the Magnavox was WALL ST. ORDER TOLL FREE the one I preferred. —Jay Rosenfield 1-800-221-4090 CAMERA EXCHANGE Among the three projec- Ail Trades Accepted (Outside NY State Orders) () () tion sets, differences in 82 WALL ST. 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he cool fire has arrived at the hot nightspots. Television screens, once used in bars only to beam out Friday night fights or Sunday after- noon ball games, are now the prime sourc- es of entertainment in some of the coun- try’s hippest dance clubs and late night music venues. In fact, any club without video these days seems strangely quiet and a little bit dull. Drinking in high tech surroundings, gazing at your amour with one eye, and checking out the flickering images overhead with the other—that’s entertainment in the ’80s. We asked veteran clubgoers and top VJs—“video jockeys,” the people who cre- ate, edit, and program videos in clubs— across the country for their favorite haunts. The following are the top ten video bar recommendations from coast-to-coast (and a few miles beyond). Since opening two years ago, this vast gathering trough for Manhattan’s celeb elite has become known as the granddaddy of video clubs. With its dramatic, spectacu- larly lit interior architecture—imagine the Emerald City built around a gymnasium on the planet Dune—and the 25-monitor video banks roaming freely above the crowd, it’s a mecca for the visually over- stimulated art and show biz bunch. Head VJ Tima Surmelioglu blends tapes by neo-ex- pressionists such as Eric Fischl and David Salle with ambient images and found foot- age from public domain sources. Because the DJs and VJs work at separate controls, the music and the video images don’t al- ways relate, but Tima and her crew try to match the rhythm of the visuals to the tunes. Getting inside the club to see the video set-up is the hard part: One out of every three would-be patrons is turned away by the attitude-heavy doormen. Wherever you gaze inside this pristine, white-walled temple to television, you see screens—34 constantly active monitors line the entrance hall, stack up beside the small stage, and sit in huge blocks near the July 1987 Video 55
Wa)BESTVIDEO NIGHTCLUBSINAMERICA, dance floor. Whether showing cus- the dance floor, and smaller monitors are consistently come up with innovative ways installed in the back room and in the up- of presenting music video. Les Wright and tom-mixed dance-length videos of current stairs bar. The big plus here is the warm, John Petropoulos (also part-owners) pro- non-plastic, neighborhood ambience. Ho- fess disdain for Top 40 and MTV, and club tunes, or used as lighting effects for live lograms, backlit stained glass, cushy regulars approve of their devotion to new acts, the monitors never stop. Early in the chairs, and plenty of tables make this a nice music. The Video Bar’s screenside dance evening, images may be kept intentionally drop-in bar and a top video venue. floor is only slightly larger than a size ten bright to encourage dancing; as the night shoebox, and it’s always crowded. Among It’s tiny, it’s hard to find, and it’s definite- recent events: an animation festival and progresses the screens darken, occasion- ly no-frills, but the VJs at this haven for Big several videotaped avant-garde art exhib- ally going black to halt the action prior to D trendinistas, local artists, and musicians its programmed to music. The motto here: “Video is an attraction, not a distraction.” presentation of a new song. VJs Keith i Jacobson and Sean Fernald, both formerly of Hula’s and The Wave in Honolulu (see Like the Palladium, this is a stomping below), specialize in on-the-spot combina- ground for publicity seekers, new money tions of images from several different scions, and lesser royals with over- moussed hair and tight leather costumes. sources. If, for instance, a song lyric men- Designed by French architect and furniture designer Philippe Starck, the club features two video viewing spots. Additionally, the entrance to the unisex restroom is lined with monitors, and each stall has a screen hanging from the ceiling (often showing an unnerving tape of a single, blinking eye- ball). The new downstairs video bar is a tions cowboys, footage of a shootout from an old Western might appear on some screens while rodeo images show up on others. The pictures split, combine, swirl in and out, and overlap to the exact beat of the music. The guys in the booth know exactly where to find every tape in their continually updated, computer-inventoried library. { There’s nothing extraordinarily creative about this popular Georgetown hangout, but a selection of the latest rock videos attracts tube-hungry college crowds. The music leans toward progressive with some go-go and rap mixed in on weekends. Two 8-by-10 foot projection screens beam onto 56 Video July 1987
Each club has its own video outlook and uses everything from hit film clips to found footage to entertain and provoke. Video hot spots (facing page, dark, cool retreat from the reverberating 11 p.m., VJ Shelley Howard steps up the clockwise from left) New York rock and loud crowds above. VJs Dave energy and plays more popular chart mate- City’s Private Eyes, Dallas’ Video Hynds and Suze Riddle work from a hefty rial. He’s a whiz at “image sequencing”: Bar, Dallas’ Starck Club. Above, library of art videos, many of which they staggering pictures from screen to screen Starck Club’s video bathroom; at create, and are apt to choose unusual “per- one second apart to give the impression of right, Minneapolis’ First Avenue. formance art” pieces and humorously visuals racing each other around the room. re-edited home movies over the canned Moviegoers will recognize Video Metro as stuff provided by record companies. the nightclub where Michael J. Fox and Joan Jett rock out in Light of Day. BERLIN, Chicago FIRST AVENUE, Minneapolis Hip clubgoers flock to this ahead-of-the- trends dance club to hear a music line-up Most famous as Prince’s hometown that includes uncharted underground hits, hangout, this club’s VJs are known for the Pavarotti arias, Robert Palmer, Patsy original videos they create for visiting Cline, and Broadway showstoppers. bands such as U2, the Chameleons, and These are backed up visually with wild- the Ramones. On recorded music nights, ly-edited collages of footage from great bad studio video releases alternate with home- movies, ambient scenes, works by local made visuals. Roy Freedom programs the artists, early music videos, and news re- images to build the action on the floor to a ports. The decor changes completely ev- frenzied crescendo. First Avenue caters to ery 90 days. Berlin seats 50 but can a different crowd each night; every few squeeze in another 200; the outdoor patio months the bars get moved around as the provides some breathing room. This club entire club is remodeled. has a steady, loyal following among those who demand change and innovation at ev- REVOLVER, Los Angeles ery turn. There’s no dancing at this West Holly- VIDEO METRO, Chicago wood wonder, just wall-to-wall video. This small club, the inspiration for New York’s This cavernous three-story complex, a Private Eyes, presents music from “the block from Wrigley Field, presents adven- top ten of the future” and hosts a variety of turous music videos and live music. Three theme nights. Mondays feature alternative 9-by-12 foot screens and 12 smaller moni- music (mostly British groups just breaking tors are spread throughout the club on two in the States) and unusual visuals light levels and in the lobby. Early evening is the years ahead of MTV. Tuesday is Wheel of time to hear new and unknown music; after continued on page 102 July 1987 Video 57
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HOW VIDEOTAPE REALLY WORKS The Essential Differences Between VHS, Beta And 8mm ne day long ago, | found a coil of a vinyl record has to be the sound. neers, working with people like Ernie unspooled 35 mm movie film. Out of Kovacs who wanted to assemble programs curiosity, I held it up to the light and If my young son ever wants to see how in bits and pieces, actually developed vid- discovered it was a scene from my VCR’s videotape works, he will have a eotape with a magnetic stain that let them Casablanca, a succession of pictures of see exactly where signals were recorded. Bogart and Bergman, each frame nearly harder task. Not only can’t you see the Then they carefully sliced between the identical to the previous one. Had I not picture and sound on videotape, but if the magnetic tracks with a razor blade and known, I would have been able, just by Scotch-taped the snippets together in the looking at the fragment, to have figured out cassette does its job, you can’t even open order they wanted, how motion pictures work: the action is the lid to see the tape. But children clever broken into tiny pieces, with sprocket enough to confront the tape must experi- If we were to dye today’s videotape, we holes to help position each frame. A ence the same disappointment I felt when I too would see where the picture is and we squiggly line that looks like the grooves on unspooled a roll of my dad’s undeveloped could deduce where the sound must be. Of snapshots and found there was nothing to course we still wouldn’t see the picture on BY see. In the early days of videotape, engi- S PoVhv = N FOR BI $ July 1987 Video 59
Videotape How The Three Tape Formats Compare Guard Band/ Video Tracks Unused Space Audio Tracks Digital Audio Band Guard Band Right Audio Channel Left Audio Channel Guard Band Video Tracks Control Track Guard Band Audio Track Video Tracks Guard Band Control Track IJLILUMLDUTSKT the tape: like a film soundtrack, the video is netic pulses spaced at even intervals: stripes by the VCR’s angled, spinning head encoded into a waveform. However, the 0.5558 mm at SP and 0.1853 mm at EP. drum. These tracks move upward at a waveforms are extraordinarily revealing. Like sprocket holes on movie film, the five-degree angle to the left. Each track Seeing them tells us a lot about how video- track tells a VCR where each frame of ‘runs half the circumference of the video tape really works and about the differences picture information is. head drum, almost four inches, and con- between the VHS, Beta and 8mm formats. tains all the picture information needed to Moreover, if we were to place a second’s Just above the control track, separated describe either the odd or even scanning worth of tape in each format next to a by a 0.15 mm blank guard band, are the snippet from Ernie Kovacs’ day, we could video tracks. They are laid onto the tape in continued on page 106 see how far the video era has come. Handling The Super Tapes The Kovacs tape would be two inches wide and 15 inches long. The VHS tape Two new developments—Super the spectrum but the FM luminance, or would be half an inch wide and about 1-1/3 brightness, signal ranges from 5.4 to 7 inches long at the SP speed. The Beta VHS and Extended Definition Be- megaHertz. Standard VHS recorders tape, also half an inch wide, would be less have their luminance signal at 3.4 to 4 than one inch long at Beta II speed. The ta—are about to shake up the world of 8mm tape would be less than one third of an mHz. Although a standard VCR will be inch wide and just over half an inch long at home video. Here’s how videotape for able to track Super VHS tape, it won't the SP speed. be able to play the tape because it will each of these format upgrades handles be looking for the brightness signal in The amount of tape needed to record a the wrong place. given amount of programming has plum- video and audio information: meted. Although some picture sharpness Little is yet known about Sony’s ED may have been lost, today’s formats all Super-VHS tape looks like normal Beta format. It will come in standard have color, and 8mm has two more chan- VHS tape except that its finish is more nels of sound. More.important, consumer reflective. The shine is due in part to _ sized cassettes, use metal particle tape formats record signals in diagonal stripes like 8mm, rather than oxide tape like along the length of the tape in a characteris- smaller particles and higher calender- Super VHS, VHS and Beta tape, and tic pattern that’s responsible for many of run at Beta II and Beta III speeds. The the features the formats possess. Let’s ing, or polishing. The magnetized luminance signal will be an FM signal look at how VHS, Beta and 8mm actually between 6.8 and 8.6 mHz. ED Beta work. _ tracks remain the seme. The top edge _ machines will be able to record and play _Hi-Band SuperBeta signals on standard TRACKS & FIELDS of the tape has o1 (o)audiotracks : _ Beta tape, but conventional Beta decks Starting at the lower edge of a VHS tape _ formono or stere will not be able to play or record ED and moving up, we notice a sprocket-like Beta tapes. control track 0.75 mm wide. It holds mag- has the same interr Ot —Lancelot Braithwaite 60 Video July 1987 with, perhaps, son... additional signals _ fortheVAS: and VISS marker location systems available on the newest VHS _ VCRs. Video tracks slanting at the same angle continu : | space between the edge: ‘The AM chrominance, or ee sig- nalis in the same placeatthelow end of
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ViDEO MAGAZINE'S GUIDE To a BIEM REVI...E.., W0.<Snerde.anass0o NEW TAPES & DISCS. ...........70 QUICK TAKES ON FILM.........69 PROGRAMMING SOURCES ....76 |Z|Z& NEWS AND VIEWS SSCSHSHSSHSSSHSHSHSHSSHSHHSHSHSSHSSHSHSHSSSHSSSHEHSEHEESESESE BY MARK FLEISCHMANN Super VHS, that day may arrive sooner than we’d thought. If Super VHS delivers on its claim of 430-line resolution, it will yield the first consumer videocassettes to match the sharpness of LaserVision. It may even approach the quality of one- inch industrial tape. “It looks fantastic,” ’ confirms Fred Fehlauer, who runs the Michigan facility where CBS/Fox duplicates tapes for its own labels and others. He feels Super VHS “does look as good as one-inch on a short cable feed,” at least to the naked eye. To take full advantage of the format, he adds, “some remastering may be in order” to upgrade one-inch masters eooemcacdccee from inferior sources such as 16mm film prints. The juiced-up specs might even bring “letter boxing” —trans- ferring widescreen films with banding and without scanning—into vogue. Giv- en their heavy investment in scanned masters, video labels are likely to resist this idea, though the practice has become popular on Japanese laser releases. VHS. VHS has provided a seemingly The major obstacle for Super VHS secure programming standard that has programming will be the format’s incom- unlocked the vaults of film and television erCe ercerepeatriebsielisteyssweistehceconventional VHS VCRs. history and stimulated an intermittently The new machines themselves will be ~ ompeting formats have contributed interesting flow of original programming. switchable between old and new VHS, / to the confusion of videophiles since The number of titles available on VHS but few people will be able to immediate- Cartrivision and other aborted half-inch has climbed to 39,907, according to Da- ly afford the pricey new format. tape systems reared their rotary heads in vid Weiner, director of information for With Beta’s slide into oblivion pro- the early ’70s. Even though VHS has the National Video Clearinghouse, pub- gram companies, distributors and retail- emerged as the leading format of the lisher of Video Tape & Disc Guide to eoceeersseccehcasve been happily dismantling the ’80s, that trend shows no sign of obso- Home Entertainment. Beta/VHS system of double inventory; lescence—unlike VHS itself. But the success of VHS is built on the they may be loath to reinstate it just to Welcome to the state-of-the-format quicksand of consumer electronics. accommodate a higher-quality format. report: a hard look at several means of We've always taken it for granted that After all, higher quality didn’t lead to video reproduction and their implications VHS—never the top format for visual mass acceptance for Beta or laser. for the future of our program collections. reCecrceeeeqeuasleisteye—ewisleleessoemeeedeaeye be obsolete. With eeoeceeAencoctchcesr question is whether—or how July 1987 Video 63
—the new format will fit the current fren- remains the format of choice for people These (full-size) Compact LaserDiscs (CLDs) hold video, followed by audio, zy for copy protection. The benefits of with sensitive eyes. Super VHS and pos- with a total playing time of 54 minutes, 30 the VHS HQ subformat and its for- sibly ED Beta will compete, but laser set seconds—more than twice the length of aCD-V. They can hold an entire audio LP mat-compatible visual enhancements the standard years ago. There is no plus two or three related video clips. have been undercut by Macrovision. greater joy in video than a well-pressed Predictions. Super VHS will slowly achieve acceptance alongside conven- How Super VHS will confront the issue LV, with its fine detail, deep black level tional VHS. The program industry will groan but cope. ED Beta will preach to of copy protection—perhaps with a and many operational features. If you Beta’s converted, and not even to all of them; 8mm is destined to be associated built-in chip—has yet to be indi- want to see what Super VHS will look with camcorders, not programming. cated. like, watch Criterion’s pressings of Black LaserVision will win new friends among upscale CD aficionados with com- Beta. The visible improvement of Orpheus (color) and Swing Time (black & bination players to feed, but more people will be interested in a superior son-of- SuperBeta—mightier than HQ but a white). VHS recording format than in a superior optical playback format. Super VHS will notch below Super VHS—did little to re- CD. The phenomenally successful dig- widen the gulf between good- and bad-looking cassettes, and tape viewers, verse Beta’s seemingly inexorable de- ital audio format is moving into short- like laser viewers before them, will start paying more attention to the quality of cline. Sony says the next attempt to im- form video with the CD video single, a video transfer and the source elements used for it. prove Beta’s diminishing fortunes will be CD-sized disc that will hold five minutes Have I mentioned that all these for- ED Beta. The “extended definition” of of video and 20 minutes of audio. Magna- mats and subformats and variations the acronym is likely to equal that of vox will introduce Compact Disc Video thereof will be obsolete when high-defini- tion TV arrives? Hey—put down those Super VHS—but also at the cost of full players that will also play standard audio rotten tomatoes! compatibility. CDs and all types of LVs. Pioneer, which Vestron will offer Blake Edwards’ That's Life this month but Platoon and Sony reportedly could have introduced already sells an LV/CD (but not CD-V) Hoosiers are stalled. The label is locked in battle with the films’ production a new Beta variation of the ED Beta/Su- player will introduce a new unit, the company, accusing it of “bad faith.” per VHS magnitude when it introduced CLD-1010, to embrace all the above. For years readers have been asking when The Avengers will be on tape. SuperBeta but opted instead to maintain CD-V is actually a variation of two ex- HBO/Cannon releases the first six epi- sodes this month—along with Woody Al- compatibility. When ED Beta will actual- isting subformats. Sony’s software arm len’s Hannah and Her Sisters. CBS/Fox is selling seven other titles in the Woody ly be available remains uncertain, but the was the first to introduce shortform vid- Allen Collection, including Annie Hail, for $19.98 each. technology exists. eos several years ago with the Video 45 Sony’s /apanese—The Spoken Lan- Officially, nearly as many titles are series (originally devised as a way to plug guage should be a hot title among video execs and grey-market consumers. available on Beta as on VHS: 38,704 at Beta Hi-Fi). Pioneer’s programming divi- Foreign affairs: June releases in last count. However, few retailers put sion was the first to market shortform Embassy’s $29.95 International Collec- tion include the one missing Jacques Tati much stock (literally) in Beta anymore, videodiscs with appended digital audio. comedy, Jour de Fete, and Alain Resnais’ haunting Hiroshima Mon Amour, about a and even special-ordering has become French/Japanese love affair amid the ru- ins. difficult. Some releasing companies have Obscuro title of the month: /x dispensed with Beta, as Prism did with Name Only. Cary Grant and Carole Lom- bard prove that great acting can redeem its $11.95 Video Collection. ED Beta is even the most maudlin script while RKO proves that black & white can glow with- unlikely to change this. Disney has a slew of short-form out colorization or Macrovision. Cheers 8mm. Two years after being intro- for all concerned. duced, 8mm is still hard to consider seri- marvels in its latest Cartoon Classics col- ously as a pre-recorded program format. lection.HHSEOESHHCSeHEHSEOSHEOESEHSEHEeECHEHSEEEOEEESHHE You can have each of five vol- Only 125 titles are available, according to umes (Mickey, Donald, et al.) for an emi- Weiner, and most of the major labels nently reasonable $14.95, or the lot for have yet to demonstrate any great com- $74.95. Also recommended for kids: mitment. The smaller format has never Sing Along Songs, at the same price, exceeded the quality of standard VHS or Beta, let alone their improved versions. Size alone has helped it find a niche as a camcorder format, but Compact VHS has challenged its projected primacy in that domain. LaserVision. The surviving video- disc format (following CED’s demise) has not yet consolidated its modest success as a videophile alternative. Picture enhancements in LV (nick- named “laser”) will soon arrive in the form of improved (but compatible!) hard- ware. Such models as Pioneer’s LD-S1 (see “Videotests,” June ’87) will provide visibly cleaner pictures than existing la- ser players do. I saw the S1 demonstrat- ed in January; in my long experience with the format it has never looked so good. Donald Duck's Cartoon Classic. Digital chips in the S1 extend special ef- fects associated with the CAV subformat contains snips from Szow White and oth- (perfect still frames. noiseless slow-mo- tion, etc.) to the longer CLV discs. er classics. Just follow the bouncing mouse head and sing along. With about 2,000 titles available, laser EEoCeSHEoOSTeTEmESeEEEOEEeEDEEDOSEESRE 64 Video July 1987
PRODUCEFDILFOMRS THEATERS men—pianist Bud Powell among them —migrated to Paris in search of more hospitable, less racist surroundings. \"Round Midnight uses a fictionalized ac- count of an unusual friendship Powell, then on the decline, developed with a young jazz-struck artist as a way of pay- ing homage to the era’s smoky be-bop sound. It’s a masterfully unsentimental labor of love, with saxophonist Dexter Gordon performing the solo of his life as the ag- ing, alcoholic Dale Turner, Powell’s cine- matic stand-in. The artist, Francis Borier (Cluzet) in the film, befriends Turner, ultimately bringing him home. At a cost to his relationship with his own daughter, Borier helps Turner straighten out and even begin to compose again, doing such Cruise, Mastrantonio and Oscar-winner Newman in ‘The Color of Money.’ a good job that Turner returns to New York City, Borier in tow, to visit his own . Then the script (by novelist Richard neglected daughter, and pick up a few 1986. Paul Newman, Tom Cruise, Mary . Price) follows the cue ball in the side of the pieces of his former life. Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Helen Shaver; . pocket. Instead of deepening the charac- dir. Martin Scorsese; wr. Richard Price. © ter conflicts, the movie veers off in an Soapy as this sounds, not a glycerine 119m. $89.95. Touchstone. Image: good. . unrealistic past, relying on surface ten- tear is shed. Gordon moves through his . sion and gloss. The cinematography be- awesome acting debut like a sorrowful Those who remember Robert Ros- . wraith, with a slow, raspy delivery that sen’s 1961 classic, The Hustler, will be . comes distractingly cute, and the themes eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeseteeeals every riff he shares. He even . are forced. For Scorsese, it’s amediocre speaks in three-quarter time, and makes . effort that cries out for the visceral im- you feel he brought a painful piece of his . pact of Raging Bull. own life to Turner’s. . . Newman won the Oscar for this, most- Two dozen classic and original compo- . ly as Hollywood’s gift for long-term ser- sitions add emotions and longings the disappointed by the sequel. The Color of ..* Money lacks the depth and drama of the . . . original, a searing and sad tragedy about ° . a gambler’s demimonde. This new . film—flashy, slick, upbeat—simply lacks ..: the realism. of the original. ° vice: he’s infinitely better in such earlier characters can barely articulate. Nearly all are performed by Gordon and a music- For the first half hour, Color ofMoney . films as Hud and Hombre, not to mention al cast that includes Herbie Hancock, . Ron Carter, Bobby Hutcherson, and . Wayne Shorter. A few selections make promises greatness. Fast Eddie Felson . The Hustler. He approaches that drama- the story resonate, as when “How Long . Has This Been Going On” by George and (Newman), the retired pool hustler, con- . tic level in a couple of scenes here but Ira Gershwin frames a cameo by Lonette . McKee as Turner’s lady. “Happiness,” spires with Carmen (Mastrantonio) to . doesn’t sustain the height. Newcomer like Turner tells Borier, “is a wet reed.” . convince her boyfriend Vinnie (Cruise) to . Mastrantonio is good; Cruise is merely The video version looks good and . sounds better. With its lustrous score . miscast. —Doug Garr and spare dialogue, this is a tape even shoot pool for money. Eddie tells Car- . . men that winning money feels better . . than earning it, but he’s really using Vin- . . nie as a means to recapture his youth. In . 1986. Dexter Gordon, Francois Cluzet; . . portraying this world of hustlers, a dir. Bernard Tavernier. 131m. (R) Hi St . Scorsese plays his audience for suckers, . cc (also available with Spanish subtitles, offering brilliant cinema with terrific im- +. V only) $79.95. LV CX St CC $39.98. agery. (Vinnie works at Child World Warner. Image: good. audiophiles may wish to own. “selling” toys to anxious parents.) In the late ’50s black American jazz- —StanerPeeseeeerereesesesrseseeseseserereeeseseres Pinkwas July 1987 Video 65
e Bob Hoskins (left) stars with Michael Caine and Cathy Tyson in ‘Mona Lisa.’ says, Staring into their surly mugs, “Iam dead now.” Unlike his cellmates, who tentious beauty of Nat King Cole’s song brood idly about being framed, Roberto accepts his guilt (for a self-defense mur- 1986. Bob Hoskins, Cathy Tyson, Mi- on the soundtrack and in a magazine page der) but feels justified. Down by Law is chael Caine; wr./dir. Neil Jordan. 104m. about Roberto’s naive odyssey through a Hi St $89.95. HBO/Cannon. Image: of the painting taped to the side of Tho- world the others are too self-involved, good. jaded or stupid to see. It is Roberto, mas’ refrigerator. Both underscore Jor- ePoerrnaeteusrealeleye,rewsheoce discovers a way out of Ostensibly about an ex-con (Hoskins) prison. who falls foolishly in love with the expen- dan’s awarenesss of how erotic mystery sive call girl (Tyson) he chauffeurs, From there, Down by Law becomes a Mona Lisa manages to explore a wealth rears itself even in the most ordinary jailbreak film like none before it. Jar- of issues touching on race, class and sex- musch moves the action at a surreally ual relations. That these weighty themes lives. But the movie itself—delicately slow tempo, dragging the trio through a never slow the momentum of the movie’s bayou that looks by turns concrete and suspenseful plot testifies to the subtlety emphasized by the happy ending George eeerseseienstrcaeceteably wet. Here the film surrenders of director Neil Jordan’s skills—and the its dramatic tension; when the plot needs sensitivity of his actors’ performances. enjoys—describes the inevitable disap- momentum, there’s nothing pushing it. George, the endearing working-class pointments of misguided grand romance Stranger than Paradise created a bumbler, and Simone, the “tall, thin black startlingly original world by refuting the tart,” make an odd, edgy couple. While and the ever-expanding horizons of sim- splendor of cinema; by riding on film George becomes increasingly enamored notr-derived caricatures, Down by Law is of Simone, her feelings turn to Cathy ple love. —Anthony DeCurtis far more familiar. Given Benigni’s re- (Kate Hardie), a 15-year-old street freshing redolence and Robby Muller’s hooker with whom she once worked. 1986. BEW. John Lurie, Tom Waits, Ro- camera work, that’s a shame. Stranger Simone persuades George to help her berto Benigni, Ellen Barkin; wr./dir. Jim than Paradise conquered style; Down by find Cathy—an activity that incurs the Jarmusch. 107m. (R) Hi St cc $79.98. Law ultimately succumbs to it. wrath of Martwell (Caine), head of Key. Image: good. the prostitution ring that employs —John Leland them. “Tt is a sad and beautiful world,” says CecreereerReoebeeereteoes(rBeesniegrneie)eeinespeheoneeeteieceeEensgeliesehs as 1986. Jane Fonda, Jeff Bridges, Raul Jul- Mona Lisa derives its tense charge ta; dir. Sidney Lumet. 102m. (R) Hi from the vivid contrast between he makes his entrance in Down by Law. $79.95. Karl. Image: good. George’s warm, workaday relation- And for its duration, Jim Jarmusch’s black ships—with his teenage daughter (Zoe & white film attempts to capture the sad- The thing about escapist movies is that Nathenson) and his best friend Thomas they’re supposed to provide an escape (Robbie Coltrane)—and the lurid, luxuri- ness and beauty of this guileless waif’s for the audience, not the director and ous world of drugs, degrading sex and world. cast. In Sidney Lumet’s sleepwalking organized crime. The exotic Simone ini- The Morning After, it feels as if the tially lures George into a decadent sort of Like its predecessor, Stranger than filmmakers took the day off, leaving us upward mobility—she buys him fancy Paradise, Down by Law is the story of the chore of feeding suspense into this clothes and initiates him into her posh undernourished mystery. milieu. The identity confusion this sparks two petty hustlers harboring delusions of is only resolved when the limits of her grandeur, and a foreigner who is thrust The film begins with Viveca (Fonda), feelings become clear. Their emotional an alcoholic B-movie actress with flam- bond is finally forged, not in the love affair upon them. Jack Romano (Lurie), a CeOeemetOeerePerboryearnetrlyertearceksyebrleoendeeeehsaeire,eweaekeiensgeruep siensaesesese George desires, but in their efforts to small-time New Orleans pimp, visits a strange bed with a disconcerting amount keep themselves alive. of blood on the sheets. Having drunk sleazy hotel room on a tip about a new herself into a blackout, she doesn’t re- The enigmatic Mona Lisa herself en- prostitute about to enter the market. As member the previous night or recognize ters the story in two ways: in the unpre- he makes his pitch, the cops break in, the fellow, with a kitchen knife sticking turn on the lights and find a child lying on out of his chest, lying next to her. She Ceoereeteheesebeeds.eseMpeeaenewshisleee,eceZack (Waits), an performs an alcoholic’s undignified morn- unemployed and inebriated neo-beatnik ing ablutions and phones her separated husband Jackie (Julia), whose advice is to disc jockey, accepts a suspiciously gen- throw herself on the mercy of the law. erous payment to drive a stolen car Instead, she heads for the airport and the first flight out of town, but it’s Thanksgiv- across town; when the cops nail him, ing and all flights are booked. After a they find a dead body in the trunk. minor hassle in the parking lot, she ducks eeCeoemreienteoeeaeneeoepseenesejaslsopeye,sewsheiecsh belongs to Zack and Jack wind up in the same pri- Turner (Bridges), a redneck ex-cop. He drives her back to town, where cinematic son cell, where the two actors strangle convention, after a few false starts, runs the film with self-consciously deadbeat its inevitable course: they fall in love. poses and bohojailbird stylizations. Then Lumet doesn’t introduce any addition- Roberto joins them. “If looks can kill,” he al significant characters. In a cast of three, it’s impossible to hide the identity of the killer from anybody but Fonda. 66 Video July 1987
(Lumet almost instantly abandons the possibility that she might have done it.) Ten minutes into the film, the only mys- tery remaining is whether Fonda’s coif- fure is a wig or just a dye job. The charac- ters uncover nary a clue, and when the denouement finally comes, the twist that gives the killer a motive feels unearned. Most of Lumet’s best work (12 Angry Men, Dog Day Afternoon, The Verdict) eschews personal statement, but he’s usually good for a creditable formal work- out. In The Morning After, he shows no respect for the form and delivers a mys- tery without mystery. You'd do better to escape from this film than with it. —John Leland 1986. Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas; dir. Jeff Kanew. 103 min. (PG) Hi St $79.95. ‘Lost Horizon’: old Hollywood at its dopey, spectacular best. Touchstone. Image: excel. Those hoping for two classy legends the dying star’s film career with that of a itual transcendence in another Frank and a comic meditation on time and pun- dying gunfighter, Tough Guys presents Capra film. In Lost Horizon Colman is ishment should skip this and rent Atlantic two old pros who make both robbery and Robert Conway, a British envoy to China City instead. This ill-executed romp de- acting look as natural as carrying on a kidnapped by a Tibetan religious com- serves to be double-featured with Police great dinner conversation. Unfortunate- mune which hopes he will succeed its Academy 2. ly, the other guests at the table are plaid- aging high Lama. The plane that carries While it’s not really fair to review panted, checked-suit buffoons ready him to the lush, isolated, mountain- Tough Guys for what it’s not, that would with the lampshades. : rimmed “Shangri-La” also brings an un- be a lot kinder than facing what it is: a Douglas and Lancaster have starred lucky capitalist, a woman with a terminal puerile cartoon of bird-droppings and together in six other films. I hope they lung ailment and a querulous paleonto- Caey logist. Their spiritual journeys alongside open-manhole jokes, built on implausible get one more good one in before retiring. legal technicalities and extremely Tough Guys is fluff, guys. Colman form a tidy bunch of amusing strained plot twists. The only thing going —Frank Lovece subplots. Improbable? You bet. Lost Ho- for it is the bitchy camaraderie between reeeereeerriezeoenseeisseosled Hollywood at its dopey, Lancaster and Douglas as Harry Doyle well-meaning, spectacular best. and Archie Long, two septuagenarians B&W. 1937. Ronald Colman, Jane Capra sustains a high level of visual lyricism with the help of lovely Jane freed after serving 30-year prison sen- Wyatt, John Howard, Edward Everett tences. Naturally, one of the first things Horton, Sam Jaffe; dir. Frank Capra. Wyatt and the dapper Colman, who dig- director Jeff Kanew does is separate the 132m. Hi $29.95. RCA/Columbia. Im- nifies the exotic sets with his English two. age: good. public-school accent and courtly good When they’re together, though, Burt Nine years before Jimmy Stewart dis- manners. Capra’s Hollywood Utopia is and Kirk are magical. As in John Wayne’s eee> veereceoevseerreedeeteheesemseaning of life in Jt’s a Won- well-appointed, and—despite sympa- thetic portrayals of agreeable Asians— last movie, The Shootist, which paralleled : derful Life, Ronald Colman tried for spir- Eurocentric. The high Lama, dying ar- : chitect of the commune, is actually a 200- : year old Belgian priest (who would ex- : pect “mere Asians” to build their own : Shangri-La?). Then again there’s no use expecting Hollywood to be anything but : Eurocentric. The nitrate negative of this exotic : work had died by 1967; the subsequent : restoration turned up footage trimmed : from various release prints. Hence pic- ture quality here varies from good to : merely viewable, with lots of bumps for : missing frames and one major sound : dropout. Freeze frames and still photos : fill occasional gaps where moving pic- : tures are lacking for the complete 132-minute soundtrack. The inter- ruptions are distracting—pity, since this - is a beautiful film—but forgivable under : the circumstances. Nearly everything : about this fragile, silly heartwarmer is : forgivable. Although a little ridiculous July 1987 Video 67
1986. Colin Friels, John Hargreaves, Lindy Davies; dir. Nadja Tass. 84m. (PG-13) $79.98. Vestron. Image: good. Although everyone in this high- ly-touted Australian caper comedy speaks English, American ears will occa- sionally be forced to use the reverse scan. The leisurely story of an idiot sa- vant (Friels) who takes in a newly-re- leased convict (Hargreaves) and his moll (Davies) as boarders, Malcolm is an al- most stereotypically foreign character comedy. Most of the humor lies in Mal- colm’s growth from a flaky mechanical genius to an eccentric with two partners incrime. His obsession with the minutiae of street-cars, Rube Goldberg-like sys- tems of mail-fetching, radio-controlled trains and utterly inappropriate re- And baby makes four in ‘3 Men and a Cradle. , sponses to social situations provide the gags. If you have a taste for such things, and not very profound, Lost Horizon is esPeeeeereesoeeMreaeleceoelemeeedsoeessestHheeemeEEasHEwEeElElEEaSs anyone. ambitious and moving in its own peculiar 1983. Anzac Wallace, Bruno Lawrence, Though based on a real person, the way. —Mark Fleischmann Kelly Johnson; dir. Geoff Murphy. 104m. plot repeats The Lavender HillMob. The (R) Hi St cc $79.98. CBS/Fox. Image: devices used in the trio’s crime are utter- excel. ly fake, but it’s easy to suspend disbelief 1985. Roland Giraud, Michel Boujenah, weroeersccIene1870 New Zealand, Te Wheke is a because the characters, and the ma- Andre Dussollier; wr./dir. Coline Ser- native Maori scout for the British coloni- chines themselves, are so appealing. vreau. 100m. (PG-13) Hi St sub. and als, serving in the belief they will end the Credit for creating and maintaining the dubbed $79.95. Vestron. Image: good. tribal warfare. Then a British patrol eeereefirlemr’sesreaerseeemeoeod goes to director Tass The prospect of a frothy French come- wipes out the wrong village—his. He im- and screenwriter (and photographer and dy about three guys who get stuck with mediately vows utu (revenge) against co-machine-maker) David Parker. This an infant somehow didn’t fill me with the pakeha (white man), becoming the film is weird and fun, one of my favorite glee. As Bill Murray once said on Satur- tattoo-faced leader of a Maori uprising. combinations. Kudos to Vestron for add- day Night Live, “The French used to be But it isn’t long before he has others, ing this to its collection. funny.” white and Maori, vowing utu against him. —M. George Stevenson The plot is as simple as the title. Three This used to be the stuff of classic swinging bachelors who share a Paris Westerns, but Murphy confronts the is- ‘yrwoyre Syhre,he a RrOiaiElyas) sue of how colonists destroy native cul- VOOSVEe apartment are saddled with both an infant tures with greater force than in any other and a package of heroin at the same time. Two of them (the father of the child, an film in memory. In addition, he addresses airline steward, is away) are forced to the question of where justice ends and struggle with basic infant care, the thugs blind vengeance begins. This is both a who come after the smack, and the po- stirring action-adventure and a moving lice. After the third man’s arrival, they tragedy about people caught in the clash try vainly to find someone to take care of of cultures, a war that is “won” only at the kid until the mother, a model, returns the cost of dehumanization. from an assignment in the U.S. The ba- Murphy achieves epic effects with lim- by, an amazingly patient and tractable ited resources, virtually using the rugged little girl, teaches them about parent- terrain in which Te Wheke’s forces hide hood. as a supporting player. The superb cast All through the film I kept thinking this is led by Wallace as Te Wheke and John- must be really hysterical in French. The son as the callow young officer charged dialogue is far too rapid-fire for my with his capture. Tania Bristowe plays a two-semester ears, but even with sub- Maori who loves both the white officer HEEHHPSEHSEHEHEEOESHEHEHEEHESEEERHHE titles I was pleasantly surprised to find and his enemy’s cause. myself laughing at regular intervals. Murphy occasionally overplays his Nonetheless, 3 Men is a very French hand a bit, and there are some rough comedy: rather slow by our standards edges—somehow more noticeable on and filled with comic situations that seem the small screen—but these don’t dimin- as horrifying to us as they are funny to les ish the film’s power. With a fine transfer francais. So unless your French is good and flawless audio mastering, CBS/Fox or your enthusiasm for Gallic cinema un- has done itself proud with one of the bridled, you’d do best to wait for the U.S. decade’s best adventure movies. Colin Friels as ‘Malcolm’: a weird and fun remake. —M. George Stevenson HESCESSETEHSHOHSHEOEHOHOEEHOESOHSHEESSEHSSEHESHEH —Sol Louis Siegel ewreerscecearspesreecsoemeeedsy. 68 Video July 1987
QUICK TAKES ON FILMS POSSHCSOHOHSSSSOSSSSSOHOSHSHOSSOSSOOSSOOSEOSOSESCESESSELEHOOSEE FLIGHT OF premise, Craven fails to build in sus- THE NAVIGATOR pense, and the gore quotient isn’t high 1986. Joey Cramer, Veronica Cartwright, enough to make this work solely as a Howard Hesseman; dir. Randal Kleiser. splatter movie. Heck, there isn’t even 89m. (PG) Hi ss $79.95. Disney. Image: eceseccasneyeenudity! —Adam Philips excel. At last, a film that’s fun for the entire THE NAKED KISS cosmos! The navigator of the title is 1964. Constance Towers, Michael young David Freeman, a 12-year-old Danted, Patsy Kelly; dir. Samuel Fuller. who tumbles down a steep incline and ee 93m. $19.95. American Entertainment wakes up to find his family and the rest of Industries (106 N. Keswick Ave., Glen- the world aged eight years. Seems that eeececcssicdces,coPseenn. 19038). Image: good. during the interim, this young Rip Van Winkle was on board a specimen-collect- In The Naked Kiss, a prostitute KOs a ing UFO which is now stranded on Earth pimp, pulls a wig off her bald head, and suffering from flight-plan amnesia. And stomps out—all before the titles come guess who does remember the plan? The up. Sam Fuller’s films are pulp morality exciting confusion that fills the balance of plays, but this one, about a small town’s Flight of the Navigator makes for one of secret sleaziness, is particularly outra- the most entertaining and delightful films geous. The message—that America prizes appearances, which deceive—is to come out of Disney Studios in a light- ee delivered as luridly as possible, in a top- year. And there’s even an extra bonus: listen carefully to “Paul Mall,” the voice Joey Cramer enters a world not of his making sy-turvy scenario featuring a child mo- of the UFO pilot. If that isn’t Pee-Wee in ‘The Flight of the Navigator.’ Herman, I'll eat the Milky Way! eeeeye elesteer, a madam named Candy, and lots prisingly not one. The slapstick comedy of hookers and handicapped children. —John Walker is about two regular guys (Danson and Mandel) who stumble into a mob-fixed Whether you take it straight or as camp, FIREWALKER the film is provocative and unique, full of the two-fisted visual style that has made Fuller a cult figure. —Bud Kliment 1986. Chuck Norris, Louis Gossett Jr., horse race scam and must run for their Melody Anderson; dir. J. Lee Thompson. lives. Edwards does a truly astounding MELODY IN LOVE 106m. (PG) $79.95. Media. Image: good. job bringing freshness to the all-too-fa- miliar gags around which the script is 1978. Melody O’Bryan; dir. Hubert Hold it boys, this may be a first: a built. Unfortunately, while the situations Frank. 81m. Hi cc $59.98. Key. Image: Chuck Norris movie you can laugh with! are often funny, the center of the film is missing—there’s no reason for us to care poor. Firewalker is a crackling-dry buddy/ad- about either of the main characters, who venture film, sort of Butch Cassidy and could almost be interchangable. Promises, promises... Offered as an the Sundance Kid in the Temple ofDoom, erotic fantasy “so hot, it will melt your —M. George Stevenson VCR,” Melody in Love is more like- replete with a throwaway treasure hunt ly to incite you to kick in your TV screen out of sheer boredom. plot. What makes it work is the This film is an interminable set-up with quip-a-second dialogue. Anderson, as a clairvoyant gold-seeker, kicks off the ex- DEADLY FRIEND no pay-off. Young M arrives on a tropical citement by informing a seedy bartender 1986. Matthew Laborteaux, Kristy Swan- isle where inhibitions and underwear are that she needs “two men of undying loy- seemingly confiscated by Customs, and alty—brave, not too smart.’ From eceeecccssecese enters the laid-back world of her cous- there, it’s one witty brush with death in/lover and various local lotharios. You after another. These guys make Indiana son, Michael Sharett; dir. Wes Craven. get dumb dubbed dialogue. (“So you Jones look like Lowell Thomas. Try Fire- 91m. (R) Hi cc $79.95. LV CX $34.98. want my husband? That’s not impossible. walker for a guaranteed hot time. Warner. Image: good. Let’s go shopping.”) You get an actual erupting volcano (wow, symbolism!). —John Walker Paul, the new neighborhood boy ge- nius, has problems. The mean old lady next door shot his pet robot to bits; his new girlfriend’s abusive father has killed A FINE MESS her. Paul’s obvious solution? Use some You get cheesy music. Although charac- leftover robot parts to bring the girl back 1986. Ted Danson, Howie Mandel, Rich- to life. But he doesn’t count on her going ters undress in various groupings, the ard Mulligan, Stuart Margolin; wr./dir. on a rampage, to avenge both her own camera cuts away on the safe side of Crceeeeceeertsaemsee.seSeosewrheysebroethseers?esReescseenst Hollywood Blake Edwards. 100m. (PG) Hi cc death and the robot’s. The plot moves mainstream releases have more erotic along briskly, and in the long run Paul energy—even more nudity—than this. $79.95. RCA/Columbia. Image: good. pays for his hubris, but what could have And they don’t look like they were devel- Despite a bad rep based on its wide- spread avoidance by all segments of been an absorbing and shocking film be- oped by a same-day-service photo lab. American society, A Fine Mess is sur- : comes merely corny. Despite the strong —Marianne Meyer July 1987 Video 69
Direct NEW RELEASES ON TAPE AND DISC high school group terrorizes poor- Keeping Track. 1987. Margot Kid- Nightforce. 1986. Linda Blair, } er students. 96m. (R) Hi ss cc der, Michael Sarrazin. Executive James Van Patten, Cameron Mit $79.95. Media. and TV anchorman expose CIA chell. Mission to rescue womat murder plot. 102m. (R) Hi cc held by terrorists in Central Amer- Diamond Head. 1962. Charlton $79.95. Charter. ica. 87m. (R) $79.98. Lightning. Heston, Yvette Mimieux, James Darren. Hawaiian land baron pre- The Left-Handed Gun. 1958. B&W. The Professionals. 1966. Burt vents sister from marrying native. Paul Newman, Lita Milan; dir. Ar- Along the Great Divide. 1951. 139m. Hi $69.95. RCA/Columbia. thur Penn. Ranch hand avenges Lancaster, Jack Palance, Lee Mar B&W. Kirk Douglas, Walter Bren- boss’ murder. 102m. Hi $19.98. nan, Virginia Mayo; dir. Raoul Equalizer 2000. 1986. Richard Warner. vin. Rancher hires mercenaries t0 Walsh. Marshal and deputy bring Norton, Corinne Wahl. Post-apoc- accused murderer to trial. 88m. Hi alyptic carnage on wheels. 85m. Miami Vendetta. 1987. Made- rescue kidnapped wife. 117m. Hi $19.98. Warner. (R) Hi $79.95. MGM/UA. for-video: L.A. vice cop uncovers link in series of murders. 90m. $69.95. RCA/Columbia. ' Amazons. 1986. Windsor Taylor Eye of the Tiger. 1986. Gary eewesee$r5e9s.9e5s.eeCeosntsienesnsteals.eees Randolph, Penelope Reed. Wom- Busey, Yaphet Kotto. Vietnam vet Robbery. 1967. Stanley Baker, en warriors unite against invading finds hometown overrun with drug Joanna Pettet; dir. Peter Yates. sorcerer. 76m. (R) Hi $79.95. dealers. 90m. (R) $79.95. U.S.A. MGM/UA. Docu-drama based on 63 heist of British mail train carrying $10 mi- Banzai Runner. 1986. Dean Stock- well, Charles Dierkop, John She- Fire and Sword. 1985. Peter Firth, eccccene pard. Cop infiltrates wealthy dare- Leigh Lawson. Knight in love with devil drivers’ club. 88m. $79.95. king’s intended. 84m. $69.98. DATE IMAGE QUALITY Vidmark. Lightning. Varies according to type of For theatrical releases, this | The Bulldog Drummond Esca- Firewalker. 1986. Chuck Norris, pades. 1937-39. B&W. Film series Louis Gossett Jr., Melody Ander- program. Films: original theat- rating refers to the transfer quali- | about dashing British adventurer. son. Search for buried gold in Gua- Four double features: Bulldog temalan jungle. 106m. (PG) Hi ss rical release. Made-for-broad- ty and overall visual appearance. | | Drummond Escapes/Bulldog cc $79.95. Media. Drummond Comes Back (’37), cast: first telecast. Made-for- For non-theatrical programs, it} Bulldog Drummond’s Re- Five Mile Creek Vols. 16, 17. 1985. vengel/Bulldog Drummond's Peril Louise Caire Clark, Rod Mullinar. video: first release in any for- refers to overall visual quality. — (37-38), Bulldog Drummond in Series set in Australian pioneer excel.: exceptionally attrac- AfricalArrest Bulldog Drummond community; 2 episodes per cas. mat. 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Warner. able on tape unless noted. The poor: seriously flawed 104m. Hi $19.98. Warner. Hour of the Assassin. 1986. Erik following abbreviations apply: ETCETERA E| The D.I. 1957. B&W. Jack Webb, Estrada, Robert Vaughn. CIA Don Dubbins, Jackie Loughery. agent determined to protect Latin B: Beta videocassette Marine Corps drill instructor locks American leader. 96m. (R) Hi horns with nonconformist recruit. $79.95. MGM/UA. V: VHS videocassette Official MPAA ratings (G, PG, |} 106m. Hi $59.95. Warner. eeceeeceeseene8:se8emsmesveisdeeosceaessseetsteesesese PG-13, R, X) are provided when | The Howards of Virginia. 1940. Dangerously Close. 1986. John B&W. Cary Grant, Martha Scott, LV: LaserVision videodisc available. All programs are in | Stockwell, Carey Lowell. Elite Cedric Hardwicke. Surveyor’s clan caught up in Revolutionary War. in either in CLV or color unless noted. List prices} 117m. Hi $69.95. RCA/Columbia. CAV playing format. are not given for CED discs. CED: CED videodisc anim.: animated AUDIO FEATURES B&W: black & white cas.: videocassette All available audio information - comp.: compilation is provided. Dolby noise reduc- czd.: colorized tion, which is used on virtually all dir.: directed by eeeereceVcHcSrestaepsese,secise not noted. The m.: minutes following abbreviations apply: n.a.: not available St: stereo nar.: narrated by Hi: Hi-Fi pr.: produced by RE: reissue ss: Dolby surround stereo sub.: subtitled cc: closed-captioned wr.: written by CX: CX encoded Editors’ choices in the Directory are highlighted with red titles. ePeee ¥ 70 Video July 1987
lion. 113m. Hi $59.95. Charter. The Three Musketeers. 1935. LABELS FOR LESS B&W. Walter Abel, Paul Lukas, Robin Hood the Legend: Time of Ian Keith. Original Hollywood ad- Special promotions and other pricing news the Wolf. 1985. Jason Connery, aptation of Dumas tale. 90m. Richard O’Brien. Installment of ca- $29.95. RKO. e CBS/Fox puts a $29.98 sale tag on 16 titles in its fourth ble TV series. 105m. Hi cc $39.98. Five Star Classics promotion. The lineup featureAsll the Right Playhouse. The Tormentors. 1971. James Moves, Teachers, Oxford Blues, The Empire Strikes Back, Craig, Chris Noel. Man pursues Carrie, Cat's Eye, Return to Boggy Creek, The Final Conflict Sanders of the River. 1935. B&W. bikers who attacked his girlfriend. (Omen ID), Sanctuary of Fear, Night Stalker, The Day the Paul Robeson, Leslie Banks. Brit- 78m. (R) $69.95. TWE. Earth Stood Still, Stuntman, Iron Eagle, War Games, Bachelor ish patrol officer defuses tensions Party and Revenge of the Nerds. between African tribes. 87m. Two Rode Together. 1961. James $24.95. Cable. Stewart, Richard Widmark, Shir- @ MGM/UA releases a round of all-new “Musicals Great ley Jones; dir. John Ford. Marshal ceeeeccccMeusseiscals” at $29.95 each: Yolanda and the Thief, Broadway The Scarlet Pimpernel. 1934. journeys into Comanche territory B&W. Leslie Howard, Merle to rescue settlers taken captive Melody of1940, Roberta, It's Always Fair Weather and Dancing Oberon, Raymond Massey. Dis- years before. 109m. Hi $69.95. Lady (see Directory listings). guised English count rescues RCA/Columbia. French noblemen from the guillo- @ In the wake of Piatoon’s box-office success, Embassy has tine. 105m. $24.95. Cable. Wanted Dead or Alive. 1986. Rut- ger Hauer, Gene Simmons. Ter- repriced the six volumes of Vietnam: The Ten Thousand Day ‘The Silver Chalice. 1954. Paul rorist declares open season on War at $24.95 per, down from $29.95 each. (The complete set bounty hunter. 104m. (R) Hiss cc eeeccencowcccrcucnssce$s149.70.) ‘Newman, Virginia Mayo, E.G. $79.95. New World. Marshall. Newman’s first starring [emailprotected] HBO/Cannon offers twin promotions on horror and com- tole: Greek sculptor hired to de- Wired to Kill. 1986. Merritt But- sign cup used at the Last Supper. rick, Emily Longstreth. Future 135m. Hi $19.98. Warner. eeeecwcocrlvdeserusled by marauding gangs. 96m. (R) $79.98. Lightning. South Bronx Heroes. 1986. Mario Van Peebles, Brendan Ward, edy in “Hot Properties” at $19.95 per tape. The scare flicks Megan Van Peebles. Foster chil- dren turn to outlaw with evidence include Dawn of the Dead, The Evil Dead, Return of the Living against their guardians. 105m. (R) $69.95. Continental. Dead, The Being, Martin, Xtro, Blacula, The Howling II and The Hills Have Eyes Part 2. The lighter summer fare includes Streets of Gold. 1986. Klaus Maria Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl, The Benny HillShow Brandauer, Adrian Pasdar, Wesley ‘Snipes. Soviet boxing champ de- Vols. 1-6, Desperately Seeking Susan, All of Me, Volunteers, fects to U.S. and coaches two young hopefuls. 94m. (R) $79.98. The Pee-Wee Herman Show (the original HBO cable special), Vestron. Adventures of Jeremy: At the King Beach Blanket Bingo and a new release, Muscle Beach Party. Summer Camp Nightmare. 1987. of the Birds’ Palace/The Concert. Chuck Connors, Charles Stratton, 1987. Anim. Curious bear; two ad- —Steve Daly Harold Pruett. Kids fed up with ventures. 30m. Hi $14.95. Sony. stern camp director take over facil- ecCerceeseersesesesesesese ity. 89m. (PG-13) Hi cc $79.95. Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Embassy. Unicorn/Red Rackham’s Treasure. He’s Your Dog, Charlie Brown! Home Vision. 1962. Anim. Two cas. Adapted 1968. Anim; wr. Charles M. from Herge’s cartoon books. Schulz. CBS TV special: Snoopy Madballs’ Gross Jokes. 1987. 40m., 60m. Hi $19.95 ea. Sony. sent to obedience school. 30m. Anim. Toy tie-in: ugly spheroids $14.95. Hi-Tops. from outer space. 30m. $12.95. Tai-Pan. 1986. Bryan Brown, Joan Around the World with Philly Fog: Hi-Tops. The Counterfeit Fog. 1987. Anim. Heathcliff: Kitten Smitten and Oth- Chen, John Stanton. James Clavell eecCeacretsoon version of Around the er Tales. 1987. Anim. Ten stories. Merlin’s Magic Cave 1. 1977. World in Eighty Days. 30m. Hi 110m. $59.95. Magic. Anim. Story collection includes novel: adventurer carves out trade $14.95. Sony. The Magic Pony, Thumbelina, He-Man and the Masters of the Uni- more. 90m. Hi $19.95. Embassy. pempire in Hong Kong. 127m. (R) verse: The Energy Beast and Other Adventures. 1987. Anim. Toy tie- More Babysongs. 1987. Toddlers’ Hi cc $79.98. Vestron. in; five adventures. 110m. $59.95. music videos. 30m. $14.95. Hi- Magic. Tops. The Thief of Bagdad. 1924. B&W. The Cat. 1966. Dwayne Redin, Douglas Fairbanks, Anna May Peggy Ann Garner, Barry Coe. Wong; dir. 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Winkle (nar. Will Geer), Martin the 56m. cc $29.98. Children’s. Cobbler (nar. Alexandra Tolstoy). Reading Rainbow: The Tortoise 90m. $19.95. Pacific. and the Hare/Hill of Fire. 1987. The Love of Three Oranges. 1987. Tortoise and Hare nar. Gilda Prokofiev opera: witch’s spell Radner; host LeVar Burton ex- leaves prince enamored of three plores site of volcanic eruption in oranges. Stage designs by Maurice Hill of Fire. 56m. cc $29.98. rCeOeecSeeensdaeke.es1e2s0eme.eeHsieSrtessusbe. e$e4e9s.9e5s.eseseeoeCcehcsiclcdreen’s. July 1987 Video 71
Lobster for Breakfast. 1982. Enrico Reaching for the Moon. 1931. Montesano, Claude Brasseur, B&W. Douglas Fairbanks, Edward Claudine Auger. Toilet salesman is Everett Horton, Bing Crosby. Al- given 24 hours to make major sale. cohol turns shy financier into dare- sub. (also dubbed version). 93m. devil on ocean cruise. 68m. (R) Hi $39.95. Embassy. $24.95. Cable. Malcolm. 1986. Colin Friels, John Robert Klein on Broadway. 1997. — Ceeee)Haergreaeves, Lindy Davies. Shy in- Klein’s monologue taped at 1.ew York’s Nederlander Theatre. 60m. ventor masterminds robberies. $59.98. Vestron. 86m. (PG-13) $79.98. Vestron. Miracles. 1986. Tom Conti, Terri Something Special. 1987. Pamela — Garr. Divorced couple is reunited when jewel thief takes them hos- Segall, Eric Gurry, Patty Duke. tage. 90m. (PG) Hi $79.95. Teen certain she’d be happier as a HBO/Cannon. Ceeeereebroeysegertessehseresweissh. 90m. (PG-13) $79.95. Continental. : Monty Python’s Flying Circus Vols. Steve Allen’s Golden Age of Come- eeeees4e,se5s.es19o7c0c-e72. John Cleese, Eric dy. 1986 comp. Color/B&W. Allen Clay men come to life ini ‘Mr. Bill’s Rea | Life Adventures. Idle, Michael Palin, Terry Jones, hosts highlights from his ’60s TV Martin Mull. Young stockbroker Terry Gilliam, Graham Chapman. show; with Henry Fonda, Mel Episodes from TV series, 2 per Brooks, Bob Hope, Jimmy Du- cas. Vol. 4: Killer Cars, the Bruce rante, more. 50m. $59.95. Media. Roland and Rattfink Cartoon Festi- cuckolds his employer. 83m. (R) sketch, Slim Jeans Theatre, Plastic Sylvia and the Phantom. 1945. val featuring Sweet and Sour- Hi cc $79.98. Key. Surgery. Vol. 5: Spam sketch, World Forum, Gumby Brain Sur- eemeeeeeerBr&esWe.sesOdette Joyeux, Jacques dough. 1968-69; ’87 comp. Anim. Clockwise. 1986. John Cleese. gery, Wonderful World of Mol- Tati. French feature: girl falls for Includes Hawks and Doves, Flying Obsessively punctual headmaster luscs, more. 60m. ea. Hi $24.95 ghost of grandmother’s lover. sub. Feet, 3 more. 32m. Hi $14.95. falls behind schedule en route to ea. Paramount. 97m. Hi $29.95. Embassy. Viddy-Oh! important conference. 96m. (PG) Mr. Bill’s Real Life Adventures. The Talk of the Town. 1942. B&W. © She-Ra, Princess of Power: The Hi $79.95. HBO/Cannon. 1986. Peter Scolari, Valerie Cary Grant, Jean Arthur, Ronald Unicorn and Other Stories. 1987. Days of Thrills and Laughter. 1961. Mahaffey, Lenore Kasdorf. Colman; pr./dir. George Stevens. Live-action rehash of Saturday Anim. Tie-in with toy action figure; B&W. Compiled by Robert Young- meeoeLcawccperofessor unwittingly harbors man accused of arson. 118m. Hi — includes 5 stories. 110m. $59.95. son. Classic scenes from silent Night Live puppet films; first aired Magic. films; with Charlie Chaplin, Key- $69.95. RCA/Columbia. on Showtime. 43m. Hi $29.95. Three Broadway Girls (a.k.a. The Storybook Stories Vols. 5, 6. 1987. stone Kops, Douglas Fairbanks, Paramount. Live action/anim. Hayley Mills others. 93m. $29.95. MPI. Greeks Had a Word for Them) hosts collection of fables including No Surrender. 1986. Michael An- 1932. B&W. Joan Blondell. ecesceDerorefeeosneeGcolefe. se1e98e7e.reTeiemseCsoencweasye. Madge Evans, Ina Claire. gelis, Avis Bunnage, Elvis Costel- Gold-diggers determined to land Myra, Three Golden Hairs, Hans Spoof of golf instruction tapes. husbands. 78m. $24.95. Cable. in Luck (Vol. 5), The Fisherman 30m. $29.95. J2. lo. Mix-up brings Irish Protestants and Catholics together at New and His Wife, Tom Thumb, Seven The Farmer’s Other Daughter. Yr. Year. 100m. (R) $79.95. Prism. with One Blow (Vol. 6). 60m. ea. n.a. Bill Michael, Harry Lovejoy, $24.95 ea. Hi-Tops. eerCeereeCaeesPseaerreaemoeuenetreCsoemmeedsyeeTheesaetesreeVoels. e2e:e The Undergrads. 1985. Art Car- Judy Pennebaker. Speculator of- Decent Exposures. 1987. Host Howie Mandel introduces new- ney, Chris Makepeace, Len Bir- The Tin Soldier. 1987. Anim. Nar. fers hefty sum for farm, provided comers’ monologues. 67m. Hi St man. Made-for-cable: spirited re- $29.95. Paramount. Christopher Plummer. Adaptation daughter is part of the bargain. tiree joins grandson at college. 102m. $59.95. Disney. of Hans Christian Anderson tale. 84m. Hi $19.95. Sony. 30m. $12.95. Hi-Tops. Georgy Girl. 1966. B&W. Lynn Peggy Sue Got Married. 1986. Kathleen Turner, Nicolas Cage; Where the River Runs Black. 1986. Redgrave, James Mason, Alan dir. Francis Coppola. Concussion Charles Durning, Peter Horton. Bates. Frumpy London woman sends woman back in time to high school years. 105m. (PG-13) Hi ss Orphan grows up looking for his finds happiness caring for flat- cc $89.98. CBS/Fox. mother’s killer. 96m. (PG) Hi cc eweeessm$ea6t9ee.e’9c5s.seilsRlCeegAei/rtCieomealtsueembecihsiael.ds.es1e00em. Hi $79.98. Playhouse. Golden TV Memories of the ’50s. Perfect Timing. 1984. Stephen Abducted. 1986. Dan Haggerty, 1987 comp. B&W. Featuring Markle, Michelle Scarabelli. Photo Roberta Weiss. Mountain recluse Abbott & Costello, Ed Wynn, Jack kidnaps woman jogger. 87m. shoot develops into orgy. 87m. $79.95. Prism. Benny, others. 60m. $19.95. MPI. $69.98. Lightning. The Associate. 1982. Michel Ser- Gospel According to Vic. 1986. Private Buckaroo. 1942. B&W. Anzio. 1968. Robert Mitchum, Pe- rault, Claudine Auger. Financial Tom Conti, Helen Mirren. Teach- Andrews Sisters, Joe E. Lewis, ter Falk, Arthur Kennedy. WW II consultant invents nonexistent er at Scottish parochial school in- Donald O’Connor. WW II draftee correspondent covers Allied inya- partner. 93m. (R) Hi sub. $39.95. volved in apparent miracle. 92m. organizes Army camp show. 65m. sion of Italy. 117m. (PG) Hi Embassy. (PG-13) Hi cc $79.98. Key. $24.95. Cable. $69.95. RCA/Columbia. The Bang Bang Kid. 1968. Tom eeveccceces Privates on Parade. 1982. John eecBereiegheteeeSmsielser. 1985. Janet Suz- Bosley, Guy Madison, Sandra Cleese, Denis Quilley. Army cap- man. Woman vacationing at spa Miles. Dumpy gunslinger silences Holiday. 1938. B&W. Cary Grant, tain entertains troops with female laughter when he unveils robot Katharine Hepburn, Edward Ever- impersonations. 107m. Hi $29.95. meets sinister head masseuse. marksman. 78m. $59.95. World. ett Horton; dir. George Cukor. HBO/Cannon. 60m. $59.95. Prism. Lawyer betrothed to society belle The Boss’s Wife. 1986. Daniel falls for her free-spirited sister. The Rage of Paris. 1938. B&W. Captive. 1987. Oliver Reed, Irina Stern, Christopher Plummer, 94m. Hi $69.95. RCA/Columbia. Danielle Darrieux, Douglas Fair- banks, Jr., Mary Martin. Racket- Brook. Terrorists torture million- In’n’ Out. 1986. Sam Bottoms, Pat eer duo helps woman snare rich Hingle. Search for inheritance HEEOSEEeCHeSSEEOEeHoEeESCEeEoSEHeHoEhEEHuEsband. 78m. $24.95. Cable. aire’s daughter into supporting © leads to Mexico. 85m. (PG) B Hi V Coe$e6r9.r9e5e.eeNreewreeWosreledc.eee their cause. 98m. (R) $79.95. — Continental. : “72 Video July 1987.
Children of a Lesser God. 1986. : Veteran pool shark takes on young : pire after writing doctor into their Place, Jade Chinn. Couple help William Hurt, Marlee Matlin, Piper wills. 75m. $69.95. Academy. Cambodian refugee family adjust to Laurie. Oscar-winning perform- - protege. 119m. (R) Hi ss $89.95. life inTennessee. 90m. Hi $59.95. ance by Matlin as young deaf Double Indemnity. 1944. B&W. Disney. woman involved with teacher of * Touchstone. Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMur- the deaf. 119m. (R) Hicc ray, Edward G. Robinson; wr. The Golden Demon. 1953. Jun $79.95. Paramount. - Cromwell. 1970. Richard Harris, eeeReascyemcoend Chandler, Billy Wilder; Negami, Fujiko Yamamoto; dir. - Alec Guinness, Robert Morley. dir. Wilder. Film noir: Insurance Koji Shima. Young lovers kept Codename: Icarus. 1985. Barry > Clash between Cromwell and King man lured into murder scheme. apart when girl’s parents insist she Angel, Jack Galloway. BBC-TV 106m. Hi $29.95. MCA. eceeeeeecrceweesde prince. sub. (also dubbed ver- thriller: plot to use child prodigies Charles I. 139m. (G) Hi $69.95. sion). 95m. Hi $29.95. Embassy. in world takeover scheme. 106m. Edge of Darkness. Yr. n.a. Joe Don Hi cc $59.98. CBS/Fox. - RCA/Columbia. ereBeaekeers,esBeosb Peck. BBC-TV thriller Heart of the Stag. 1983. Bruno Lawrence, Mary Regan, Terence The Color of Money. 1986. Paul : David and Lisa. 1962. B&W. Keir about detective investigating Cooper. Farm hand discovers Newman, Tom Cruise, Mary Eliz- daughter’s murder. 307m. (2 cas.) boss’ incestuous relationship with abeth Mastrantonio; dir. Martin : Dullea, Janet Margolin, Howard da Hi cc $79.98. CBS/Fox. daughter. 94m. (R) B Hi V $69.95. Scorsese. Sequel to The Hustler. PrreeceNeecswccWcocrcleds. Silva. Friendship between mental- The Girl Who Spelled Freedom. 1986. Wayne Rogers, Mary Kay ly disturbed boy and girl blossoms : into love. 94m. Hi $69.95. : RCA/Columbia. ° Death by Prescription. 1986. Tim- othy West. 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B Hi V $19.95. Polaris Communications La Bete Humaine (The Human ° $99.95. New World. Group (2 Park Ave., New York, Beast). 1938. B&W. Jean Gabin, . NY 10016; 212-561-8226). Simone Simon, Jean Renoir; dir. ° eeereererereeeeeseeeseeeseee . The Mosquito Coast. 1986. Har- eeeeeeseeeeseeseseesres eeser Renoir. Adaptation of Zola novel: . TV Classics Volumes 6, 7. 1987. disturbed trainman involved with . rison Ford, Helen Mirren, River B&W. Vol. 6: episodes of ’50s Home Buying: The Bottom Line. married woman. 104m. $24.95. . 1987. Host Barrett Clark. Seg- . Phoenix; dir. Peter Weir. Adapta- crime shows Armchair Detective, ments on real estate terminology, Cable. . evaluating agents, inspection, fi- . tion of Paul Theroux novel: inven- Public Prosecutor. Vol. 7: Dick nancing, lawyers, more. 40m. . $19.95. Sony. . tor attempts to establish utopian Powell, Peter Lorre in pair of vin- community in Central American tage dramas. Approx. 52m. ea. $19.95 ea. MPI. The Last Laugh. 1925. B&W. Emil wilderness. 119m. (PG) Hi ss cc A Whale for the Killing. 1981. Pe- How to Become the Love of His Jannings; dir. F.W. Murnau. Su- $89.95. Warner. ter Strauss, Richard Widmark, Life. 1986. Advice from group of perbly photographed study of eld- The Murders at Lynch Cross. 1985. Dee Wallace. TV movie: man tries erly doorman demoted to wash- Jill Bennett, Joanna David, Barbara to keep town from selling beached single women. 30m. $14.95. Fox. room attendant. Silent. 74m. Jefferd. Bloodshed at English humpback to Russian whalers. $24.95. Cable. countryside hotel. 60m. $59.98. 145m. Hi cc $59.98. Playhouse. How to Read a Woman Like a Book. Prism. 1986. Pointers on interpreting The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case. X, Y & Zee. 1972. Elizabeth Tay- body language. 30m. $14.95. Fox. 1976. Anthony Hopkins, Joseph Mysteries. 1984. Rutger Hauer, lor, Michael Caine, Susannah Cotten, Martin Balsam. TV Sylvia Kristel. Enigmatic stranger York. 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Manhattan musical director Zubin Mehta; in- separate performances; selections bandleader heads for Hollywood. : human hosts. 92m. (R) $79.95. 89m. $19.95 (B&W version cludes concert clips. 50m. Hi include arias from Macbeth, Don $14.95). Roach. : TWE. i$39.95. Kultur. Carlo, Barber of Seville. Approx. Viadimir Horowitz: The Last Ro- : The Invisible Man. 1933. B&W. mantic. 1987. Program filmed in : Claude Rains, Gloria Stuart, Una Heartbeat. 1987. Don Johnson, 60m. ea. Hi $39.95 ea. Kultur. the pianist’s apartment features selections from Bach, Chopin, Mo- Lori Singer, Willie Nelson, others. A Midsummer Night's Dream. zart, Rachmaninoff. 89m. Hi St O’Connor; dir. James Whale. $39.95. MGM/UA. _ Music videos linked in feature for- 1982. London Philharmonic; cond. First-rate adaptation of H.G. Wells Yolanda and the Thief. 1945. Fred mat. 65m. Hiss $19.98. CBS/Fox. Bernard Haitink. Glyndebourne Astaire, Lucille Bremer, Frank novel: scientist invents invisibility Morgan; dir. 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Shelburne VT 05482; 800-972- ° 91320; 818-888-3040, 800-423- 0001. 7455. 90025; 213-444-8100. Twin Tower Enterprises, 12345 Atlantic Video, 75 Rockefeller Pla- J2 Communications, 10850 Wil- Pacific Arts Video, 50 N. La Ventura Blvd., Suite R, Studio shire Blvd. Suite 1000, Los Ange- Cienega Blvd., Suite 210, Beverly City CA 91604; 818-761-0932. za, New York NY 10017; 212-484- les CA 90024; 213-474-5252. Hills CA 90211; 213-657-2233. 6000. United Home Video, 4111 South Cable Films, Box 7171, Kansas Karl-Lorimar Home Video, 17942 Paramount Home Video, 5555 Darlington St., Suite 600, Tulsa Melrose Ave., Los Angeles CA OK 74135; 918-622-6460, 800- City MO 64113; 913-362-2804. Cowan Ave., Irvine CA 92714; 90038-3197; 213-468-5000. 331-4077. CBS/Fox Video, 1211 Sixth Ave., 714-474-0355. Pioneer Artists, 200 West Grand U.S.A. Home Video: see IVE. Ave., Montvale NJ 07645; 201- New York NY 10036; 212-819- Kartes Video Communications, 573-1122. Video Artists International, Box 3200. 7225 Woodland Dr., Indianapolis 153, Ansonia Staation., New York IN 46278; 800-331-1387. Playhouse Video: see CBS/Fox. NY 10023; 212-799-7798. Charter Entertainment: see Em- eoeeeseee Key Video: see CBS/Fox. bassy. Children’s Video Library: see Ves- Kultur International Films, Ltd., Prism Entertainment, 1888 Centu- + Vestron Video, 60 Long Ridge Rd., tron. 121 Hwy. 36, West Long Branch ry Pk. East, Los Angeles CA Box 4000, Stamford CT 06907; NJ 07764; 201-229-2343. 90067; 213-277-3270. 203-968-0000. Coliseum Video: see A&H. Lightning Video: see Vestron. RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Vid- Viddy-Oh! for Kids: see MGMI/UA. Continental Video, 2320 Cotner, Los Angeles CA 90064; 800-821- Magic Window Video: see RCA/Co- eo, 3500 W. Olive Ave., Burbank Vidmark Entertainment, 2450 Wil- lumbia. CA 91505; 818-953-7900. shire Blvd., Suite 1, Santa Monica 3427. CA 90403; 213-829-4359. Walt Disney Home Video, 500 S. MCA Home Video, 70 Universal Republic Pictures Home Video, Buena Vista St., Burbank CA City Plaza, Universal City CA 12636 Beatrice St., Box 66930, Video International Entertainment 91608; 818-508-4315. Los Angeles CA 90066-0930; 213- World, Inc., 34 East 23 St., New 91521; 818-840-1111. York NY 10010; 212-674-5550. Embassy Home Entertainment, Media Home Entertainment, 5730 - 306-4040. Vista Home Video, 645 Madison Buckingham Pkwy., Culver City - RKO Home Video, 1900 Ave. of the 1901 Avenue of the Stars, Los CA 90230; 213-216-7900, 800- Stars, Los Angeles CA 90067; Ave., New York NY 10022; 212- Angeles CA 90067; 213-553- 3600. 421-4509. 213-277-3133. 486-7272. Fox Hills Video: see Media. eCorrMeeGsMee/eUsAeeHrosmeesesVeirdeeos,ce1s350 Sixth Hal Roach Studio Films Classics, Warner Home Video, 4000 Warner Ave., New York NY 10019; 212- 1600 North Fairfax Ave., Holly- Blvd., Burbank CA 91522; 818- HBO/Cannon Home Video, 1370 408-0600. wood CA 90046; 213-850-0525. 954-6000. Sixth Ave., New York NY 10019; Morris Video, 2730 Monterey, Sony Video Software, 1700 Broad- World Video Pictures, 12401 Wil- 212-977-8990. Torrance CA 90503; 213-533- shire Blvd. 102, Los Angeles CA way, New York NY 10019; 212- e9002e5; 213-820-6100. Hi-Tops Video: see Media. eeeey 4800e. : 757-4990. 76 Video July 1987
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Videotests S/N is 40.9 dB, and its chroma PM S/N is input; it covers the entire audio range with- 40 dB. Overall picture quality is very in + 0.05/-4.9 dB. The microphone input is Pocket 8 slightly easier to use thanits close good/excellent. countered to emphasize the voice range. cousin, the Olympus VX-801. Dynamic range is 78.1 dB and the total Like all 8mm camcorders (except harmonic distortion is less than 0.3 per- Performance. The Pocket 8 delivers Kodak’s), the Pocket 8 has monaural AFM cent. Audio performance is good by 8mm approximately 240 lines of horizontal reso- audio with a frequency response of 25 to standards. lution with a video signal-to-noise ratio of 16,000 Hertz at the -3 dB point at the line 38.8 dB, unweighted, and 46.5 dB, weight- ed with sag compensation. Its chroma AM Test Report: Chinon C8-1003 Pocket 8 8mm Camcorder System DATA Viewfinder: fixed electronic with flip-up Auto rewind: yes Date of test: April 1987 focusing magnifier; onscreen bar indicates Linear audio: none Suggested price: $1,895 iris opening, LEDs indicate record/battery Hi-Fi audio: mono AFM Weight: 2.9 pounds, camcorder; 0.4 lbs., warning and auto white balance off Accessories: supplied—C8-AC33 audio/ Viewfinder controls: focus lever for video/RF/AC adapter/battery charger, C8- C8-B33 battery; 1 Ib., C8-AC33 battery B33 1-hour battery, shoulder strap, charger/AC adapter magnifier, electrical focus, and brightness A/V C8-AV33 input/output connector, Dimensions: 5-3/8 x 4-7/8 x 10-1/8 inch- Auto fade: semi auto A/V cable, earphone, VHF RF cable, and es (h/w/d), camcorder; 1-3/8 x 9-1/4 x 3- VCR controls: all, unitized 300-75 ohm transformer; optional—car Microphone: unidirectional electret battery cord, extension cable, ND filters, 5/8 inches (h/w/d), adapter/charger carrying case Power requirements: 7.2 VDC, cam- condenser corder; 120 VAC, 50/60 Hz, charger/ Cable length: none RESULTS & RATINGS adapter Plug: none Horizontal resolution: approx. 240 Power consumption: typical 7.0 W, lines, measured maximum 7.6 W, camcorder; approx. 22 Jacks: mic and earphone minijacks, S/N, video luminance: 38.8 dB, un- weighted; 43.5 dB, weighted; 46.5 dB, W, charger/adapter multi-pin adapter weighted with sag compensation Image sensor: solid state, 1/2-inch CCD Tape format: 8mm S/N, chroma AM: 41 dB Lens: f/1.2, 6x (9-54 mm) power zoom Tape speeds: SP S/N, chroma PM: 40 dB Still frame: yes Audio frequency response: line in- with macro put—25-16,000 Hz, -3 dB; 20-20,000 Hz, Filter diameter: 49 mm Frame advance: yes +0.05/-4.9 dB Minimum focusing distance: 4 feet, Slow motion: no Dynamic range: 78.1 dB Speed play: no Audio distortion: 0.3 percent plus macro range Cue & review: 7x, forward and reverse Overall picture quality: very good/ Minimum illumination: rated, 7 lux; Visible FF and Rew: no excellent measured 17.4 lux for 50 IRE; 7 lux for Fast forward/rewind time: 3 min. for Audio quality: good 30 IRE P6-90 Ease of operation: very good/excellent Remote pause: no Overall performance: very good/ Autofocus: piezo type, with three select- excellent able focus zones; switchable to manual Remote: none with one-shot capability White balance: auto, switchable to in- Separate eject: yes door (3200 K) or outdoor (5500 K) Counter digits: 4 Iris: auto with press-and-hold backlight Counter memory: yes Program start locator/index/cue: no compensation button Audio dub: no Sensitivity: single range 7 to 100,000 lux Video dub: insert, also replaces audio ORDERS ONLY now avaiable §6©6.1-8 -223-7974OVERNIGHT DELIVERY NY. 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Videotests SHAteps Conclusion. The only other camcord- Sharp’s VC-799U delivers impressive effects at a reasonable price. ers as light as the Pocket 8 are record-only models. Automatic focus and white bal- mise. Sharp cut corners by using linear ry. The VC-799U also decodes MTS ster- ance, semi-automatic backlight compensa- stereo instead of hi-fi stereo. If audio is not eo and SAP. tion and fade, and the autofocus window as important to you as picture quality, that make it easy to record excellent pictures compromise may make sense. One of the most useful features is a with good sound. The pedestal simplifies full-function remote. In addition to the bas- playback and recording with search, still, The VC-799U uses a “4 Head Plus” sys- ic functions it offers frame advance, varia- frame advance and edit controls. At tem to deliver noiseless still frame, frame ble speed slow motion and double speed $1,895, the Pocket 8 should be a major advance, variable-speed slow motion and playback, which are not available on the contender if you’re looking for a camcorder two-speed search. A blue screen replaces VCR’s control panel. An LCD display on that feels like an extension of your eyes. the usual screen full of noise whenever the remote shows information from the there is no picture. The 140-channel PLL 14-day/6-event clock/timer and remem- Sharp Stereo quartz synthesized tuner requires no fine bers entries. VHS VCR tuning but you can program its scan memo- You can make program entries in the Everyone would like to own a VCR with all the latest bells and whistles, but most people live on a budget and can’t afford a top- of-the-line ma- chine. Usually, sacrifices have to be made. The Sharp VC-799U delivers a high quality picture with impressive effects at a reason- able price, with only one serious compro- —— =a >——— \"i Compie le Ou uttit jae camera dnery chRaces came ra * BattVe:e;charger * Batteery arger eoaiey strap * - CarryS4tray * 3 Tnpoa RLTFeinpscaobslheasde4 $788.la]* Lens Shade S= *a)ARuIESdAiCooqnuvvaierdraetnoetrecgables RF cables * Converter CCD-V8AF * TCrairprogY Strap 8mm Autofocus * UASuAdioquvairJaenotecsapi Camcorder :JAX;:* iLeFdnCsCs9oaunbSVavlhireedarasedtnoeetreCgables VHS-C “888.GRC-7 Camcorder Panasonic Complete Our tGutofocus camerg 7 dutofocus camera Bantery char 9 er All PriCcaesmcInoclruddeerOutfiOtutLifsitetds Above “BatNeeerryy ch larger Bantery © PV-300 CCD...... $988 “poy \"°°* pais. a, strap ed* Lens shaq le “ans shade A ay|pFpCablceonsverter 308e PV-320 New..sit.h evlin SCALL i./wkhon VN-800||P+Aeugiotvicdeo cables ROAsath et) ikon} 1088.peace e PV-100 VHS-C ..... 8mm Video e AG-160 Pro VHS... $1188 CMR-300 VHS Camcorder Camcorder CAMCELA WOKS Hours: Mon.-Wed. Sat. 9-7 Thurs.-Fri. 9-8 Sun. 10-6 10 day return policy; authorization OPEN 7Days-6THAVENUE&320 STREET -New Yorn 10001 \"=|G Seress required. Handling non-refundable. All orders subject to approval. Due to early submission, availability & price are cpa? Fs subject to change without notice. 82 Video July 1987 For additional information, circle No. 18 on Reader Service Card.
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Videotests recording for up to 24 hours. This simple has buttons for TV/VCR, coun- timer is like a seventh programmed re- ter/lap/length (display), counter reset and remote and transfer them to the VCR at cording, to be used within a day of when it memory, timed record standby (delay), the touch of a button, and use the onscreen timed record (length) and channel up and display on the TV to check whether the is set. down. The lower front panel houses the transfer worked. You can even turn the Description. The 15.2-pound VC- remote sensor and buttons for play, stop, timer on and off from the remote. rewind (search) and fast forward (search). 799U is 3-3/4 inches high by 17 wide by The front panel is unusual in that the 13-3/4 deep. The top of the front panel has The compartment on the far right has pause and record controls are concealed. A the power button, the cassette hatch, and controls for pause, record, the blue timed record button selects basic record- indicators for stereo, SAP, auto play and screen, full auto repeat/play, audio out L/ ing length up to 4 hours and 59 minutes, auto repeat. The middle of the front panel while standby lets you delay the start of Test Report: Sharp VC-799U Stereo VHS HQ VCR with MTS DATA on/off, onscreen, and transfer ies, V-Lock adjusting tool, antenna cables Date of test: April 1987 Separate eject: yes and transformers Counter digits: four Suggested retail price: $499 Counter memory: yes RESULTS & RATINGS Weight: 15.2 pounds Program: start locator/index/cue: no Horizontal resolution: rated and Dimensions: 3-3/4 x 17 x 13-3/4 inches measured—240 lines (h/w/d) Audio dub: no S/N, video luminance: rated—45 dB Power requirements: 120 VAC, 60 Hz Video dub: no (SP); measured—44. 2/44.9/42.8 dB (SP/ Power consumption: 29 W Auto rewind: yes, with repeat play LP/EP), unweighted; 47.4/47.5/48.1 dB Tape format: VHS HQ Linear audio: stereo (SP/LP/EP), weighted Tape speeds: SP, LP, EP Hi-Fi audio: none S/N, chroma AM: 47.6/46.4/44.7 dB Play speed select: automatic Tuning method: quartz synthesis (SP/LP/EP) Still frame: yes Channel selectors: up/down scan of S/N, chroma PM: 46.7/45.4/43.7 dB Frame advance: yes, only on remote memorized channels on VCR, scan plus (SP/LP/EP) Slow motion: 1/5x to 1/30x, only on Audio frequency response: rated—80 remote direct access on remote Hz to 10 kHz (SP); measured—125 Hz to Speed play: 2x, only on remote Preset method: auto memory of active 10 kHz, -3 dB, to spec at -5 dB (SP); 125 Cue & review: 5x/7x in SP and LP; 9x/ channels plus add and erase from memory Hz to 8 kHz, -3 dB (LP); 160 Hz to 5 15x in EP Broadcast tuning range: 2 to 13, 14 kHz, -3dB (EP) Visible FF and Rew: no S/N, audio: rated, 40 dB; measured, 44 Fast forward/rewind time: less than 5 to 83 dB worst case min. for T-120 Cable tuning range: 2 to 13, A to W, Audio distortion: 1.8 percent Remote pause: yes A-5 to A-1 Overall picture quality: very good for Remote: IR wireless with LCD display AFT: always on VHS HQ and buttons for power, eject/load, TV/ MTS stereo: yes Audio quality: good for linear track VCR, channel up and down, 10-digit key- stereo pad, stereo/SAP, record, stop, pause/still, SAP: yes Ease of operation: excellent play, frame advance, rewind/search, fast Channel lock: yes Overall performance: very good forward/search, slow, slow +/-, 2x, clear, Timer: 6 programs, 14 days plus simple clock set, program/clock, -, +, set, timer record timer (to 4 hrs., 59 min.) with de- lay (24 hrs.) Auto channel-change: yes Accessories: remote control with batter- THE DIRECT LINE TO SUPER DEALS 24-HOUR PROCESSING. . .24-HOUR SHIPPING 1-o8n 0P0a-n5a2so4n-i1c5.96 SUPER FAST DELIVERY ss 32 RED LABEL 1-day delivery, extra charge WE SELL: Vcr’s, Video Cameras, TVs, BLUE LABEL 2-day delivery, extra charge Monitors, Accessories, All Panasonic Appliances. 24-hour processing/shipping on Red Label and Blue Label Sir VoxPRO LINE—Industrial Equipt. PAL-SECAM-NTSC, 110/220 COD Anywhere in the USA Super Low Prices pe oe on Panasonic. == SUPER VIDEO INC., 245 Paterson Plank Road, Carlstadt, New Jersey 07072 CSR2NciaFooaeie1nod.rrfadcdvoidl.irteecmireaotniaoln, 84 Video July 1987
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Videotests recording for up to 24 hours. This simple has buttons for TV/VCR, coun- timer is like a seventh programmed re- ter/lap/length (display), counter reset and remote and transfer them to the VCR at cording, to be used within a day of when it memory, timed record standby (delay), the touch of a button, and use the onscreen is set. timed record (length) and channel up and display on the TV to check whether the down. The lower front panel houses the transfer worked. You can even turn the Description. The 15.2-pound VC- remote sensor and buttons for play, stop, timer on and off from the remote. 799U is 3-3/4 inches high by 17 wide by rewind (search) and fast forward (search). 13-3/4 deep. The top of the front panel has The front panel is unusual in that the the power button, the cassette hatch, and The compartment on the far right has pause and record controls are concealed. A indicators for stereo, SAP, auto play and controls for pause, record, the blue timed record button selects basic record- auto repeat. The middle of the front panel screen, full auto repeat/play, audio out L/ ing length up to 4 hours and 59 minutes, while standby lets you delay the start of Test Report: Sharp VC-799U Stereo VHS HQ VCR with MTS DATA on/off, onscreen, and transfer ies, V-Lock adjusting tool, antenna cables Date of test: April 1987 and transformers Suggested retail price: $499 Separate eject: yes Weight: 15.2 pounds Counter digits: four RESULTS & RATINGS Counter memory: yes Horizontal resolution: rated and _ Dimensions: 3-3/4 x 17 x 13-3/4 inches measured—240 lines Program start locator/index/cue: no S/N, video luminance: rated—45 dB (h/w/d) Audio dub: no (SP); measured—44. 2/44.9/42.8 dB (SP/ Power requirements: 120 VAC, 60 Hz Video dub: no LP/EP), unweighted; 47.4/47.5/48.1 dB Power consumption: 29 W Auto rewind: yes, with repeat play (SP/LP/EP), weighted Tape format: VHS HQ Linear audio: stereo S/N, chroma AM: 47.6/46.4/44.7 dB Tape speeds: SP, LP, EP Hi-Fi audio: none (SP/LP/EP) Play speed select: automatic Tuning method: quartz synthesis S/N, chroma PM: 46.7/45.4/43.7 dB Still frame: yes Channel selectors: up/down scan of (SP/LP/EP) memorized channels on VCR, scan plus Audio frequency response: rated—80 Frame advance: yes, only on remote direct access on remote Hz to 10 kHz (SP); measured—125 Hz to Slow motion: 1/5x to 1/30x, only on Preset method: auto memory of active remote channels plus add and erase from memory Speed play: 2x, only on remote Broadcast tuning range: 2 to 13, 14 Cue & review: 5x/7x in SP and LP; 9x/ Pere == = i (aa) was5 a == 3 Ww = Nn = (a) N = om = Go> ON0sS3 taeVW x a =—: toao e 3=e Nl RSDeerapvP2Bdai.oe5crOxr6e.Ctl53lmo2iwe7nant3ot5n-,2563 PeagsO == =
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Videotests ——— up/down, TV/VCR, record, pause/still, Separate memories hold the last select- slow, rewind, play, fast forward and stop. spring-loaded bare wire connectors for ed channel on RF1, RF2, and CATV in- feeding external speakers directly from the Operation. Operation of the CX3077 is internal five-watt-per-channel amplifier. very simple and hookup is clearly de- puts, and channel return restores the last scribed in the manual. Although most oper- selection viewed regardless of source. The The infrared remote duplicates the mon- ations are controllable from the remote, it itor’s controls for power, volume, channel would be nice if you could use it to adjust Test Reports: selection, mono (forced), stereo/SAP, the picture. If you leave the comb filter and Toshiba CX3077 30-inch TV/video and TV/CATV. It also has but- ABC on you may not miss that too much. Color Monitor/Receiver tons for time settings, a sleep timer, time The VCR controls are helpful if you have a and channel recall, last channel return, recent Toshiba deck but useless other- DATA mute, RF switching, and a ten-digit key- Date of test: April 1987 pad. The remote also controls most Toshi- wise. Suggested retail price: $2,500 ba VCRs, with buttons for power, channel Weight: 136.7 pounds Dimensions: 28 x 29-1/8 x 21-3/8 inches GRAND CENTRAL CAMERAS (hAw/d) Power requirements: 120 VAC, 60 Hz CALL TOLL FREE FOR MAIL ORDERS ONLY: Power consumption: 128 W average Personal Screen size: 30 inches Speaker size: 1.6 x 4.7 inch woofer and 1-800-237-9971Service 0.7 x 0.7 inch tweeter for each channel Type of tuning: voltage synthesis IN NEW YORK CALL: 212 557-3244 FOR INFORMATION Method of tuning: programmable up/ down scan at set, scan and keypad direct Panasonic VHS CAMCORDER Panasonic Pro Line VHS access on remote OMNIVISION Camcorder Broadcast tuning range: 2 to 13, 14 12 Piece Packages to 83 ~~ 12 Piece Package Cable tuning range: 72 channels—2 to Camera 10. Lens Kit 13, A-1 to A-8, A to I, J to W, AA to ZZ, . Charger 11. Filter $1048“PV 320 w/CCD . Camera 10. Lens Kit © AAA, BBB . Charger 11. Filter RF input: 2 VHF (F connectors); 1 UHF Battery 12. Tripod . Battery 12. Tripod $1198AG 160 Pro (knurled screw) . Blank Tape . Blank Tope RF output: 1 VHF loop through of VHF . AN Adaptor . AN Adaptor RF 1 ( connector) . Dub Cables Remote control: IR wireless with but- Dub Cables - Corry Hondle . Carry Handle . Lens Cop tons for power, timer, time set, recall, . Lens Shade TV/Video, TV/CATV, RF1/RF2, mute, Lens Cop channel return, mono, stereo/SAP, vol- . Lens Shade \"Features 7 lux, audio dub, 525 lines ume up/down, channel up/down, a 10-digit keypad, and controls for most Toshiba Features 7 lux, auto and manual focus, of resolution, fade in/fode out, VCRs (TV/VCR, channel up/down, power, high speed shutter, 6:1 automatic high speed shutter record, pause/still, slow, rewind, play, power zoom. fast forward and stop) Video/stereo audio inputs: 2 HIGH QUALITY AC/DC VIDEO LIGHT $99.95 HIGH RESOLUTION TELEPHOTO LENS $169.95 Video/stereo audio output: none Video/stereo audio tuner output: Rem st Pro Wonder VHS SONY 8mm Format none Camcorder Pro Camcorder Auxiliary stereo audio output: | variable 12 Piece Packages CMR 300 12 Piece Packages $12483 Headphone jack: 3.5 mm stereo, in CCD-V110 Pro front compartment . Comera 11. Lens Kit 1. Comera 10. Dub Cable Chorger 12. Tripod . Charger 11. Lens Kit External speaker connectors: spring . Battery . Battery 12. Tripod clips for bare wires Strap . Strap Internal audio amplifier power: 5 Filter . Filter watts per channel (switched between in- Blank Tape . Handle ternal and external speakers) . Lens Cop Accessories: remote control with batter- AN Adaptor NEW- Blank Tape ies, 300-75 ohm matching transformer Lens Cop Microphone . AN Adaptor RESULTS & RATINGS . Lens Shade Picture sharpness: more than 400 lines, Features 7 lux, power zoom, FREE measured autofocus, auto iris and CASE lapse photography, stop watch Snowiness; S/N, luminance: 54.1 dB plays direct onto any TV. and power zoom. Chroma AM S/N: 53.3 dB Chroma PM S/N: 51.2 dB T VM-E2 Gamearder OLYMPUS Pro Model VHS Accuracy of colors: excellent 8mm Format Camcorder Overall picture quality: excellent Canon Deluxe Audio frequency response: 2( Hz to 15 Piece 20 kHz, +1.2/-0.4 dB 12 Piece Package Package Audio S/N: 64 dB Stereo separation: 48 dB . Camera 10. Lens Shade Total harmonic distortion: 0.9 percent . Battery 11. Handle Overall audio performance: average . Charger 12. Tripod Ease of operation: excellent Overall performance: very good Strap Blank Tape . Head Cleaner . AN Adaptor . Dub Cables OCn. OeLwUenns rCsop— NEW sil4é This top of the line camera features 7 lux, Piezo vee |system, 3 zone autofocusing, high speed shutter, audio dub and can both play and record. Weighs 3.5 lbs., Auto & Manual focusing, 6:1 zoom. Easy to use. SPECIAL OFFER ouanrmes Plays direct on any TV. OVERNIGHT DELIVERY SERVICE AVAILABLE 420 LEXINGTON AVE. OPEN 7 DAYS 9 AM-8 PM AMERIACTAN44tEhXPSRTERSESE,T VIINSAN,EWMASYTOERRKCARCIDT,Y/INDINNEYR’SCALCLLUB21,2 D5I5S7C-O3V2E4R4 CARD 7 DAY RETURN POLICY/ALL RETURNS MUST BE PHONED IN FOR PRIOR AUTHORIZATION/ALL PRODUCTS MUST BE RETURNED IN ORIGINAL FACTORY PACKAGING CLEAN, UNSCRATCHED AND WITH BLANK WARRANTY CARDS/DO NOT DEFACE MANUFACTURER'S CARTONS/SHIPPING, HANDLING AND INSURANCE CHARGES ARE NON-REFUNDABLE/QUANTITIES ARE LIMITED. /AVAILABILITY 1S NOT GUARANTEED ON ALL ITEMS/IN STORE PRICES MAY VARY/PRICES ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE WITHOUT NOTICE/LICENSED BY CONSUMER AFFAIRS OF NEW YORK #B00137/PRICES VALID THRU JULY 15. PRICES SLIGHTLY HIGHER IN STORE For additional information, circle No. 28 on Reader Service Card. 94 Video July 1987
Videotests variable audio feed for an amplifier lets you 12-7/8 deep, just right for sitting above or green, magenta, red, blue and black. Four adjust TV volume through a hi-fi system below a VCR. The top of the front panel with the TV remote. has a switch for input selection, and con- buttons and a control bar allow wipes from trols for phase and gamma correction, hue Performance. The CX3077 boasts a: (tint), color and reverse. the top, bottom, right and left, and may be horizontal resolution over 400 lines. The video signal-to-noise ratio is 54.1 decibels, The lower part of the panel slopes out- used to deliver a rectangular wipe. chroma AM S/N is 53.3 dB and chroma PM ward and hosts the power switch, a micro- S/N is 51.2 dB. The only blemish is aslight phone jack and rotary level controls for the A section labelled Color Correct in- vertical jitter, noticeable only in scenes microphone line, source and master audio with strong horizontal lines. Excellent col- level. A rotary background color selector cludes switches for on/off and wide range or accuracy gives this monitor an overall has positions for bars, white, yellow, cyan, picture quality rating of excellent. and a joystick to help make whites look Audio performance is mixed. The built- whiter. A group of controls labelled Fader in speakers, which are weak on bass, don’t do full justice to the CX3077’s audio ability. has switches for audio and video and the Driving external speakers with the internal amplifier is a much better idea if sound is fader bar, for fades with audio to either important to you. The frequency response of the electronics is 20 Hertz to 20 kilo- white or black. b> Hertz, +1.2/-0.4 dB with an audio S/N of 64 dB, channel separation of 48 dB and a GRAND CENTRAL CAMERAS total harmonic distortion of 0.9 percent. 1-800-237-9971N Overall audio performance is average. SARRNAaNlTE Conclusion. The Toshiba CX3077’s CALL TOLL FREE FOR MAIL ORDERS ONLY: picture quality and ease of operation are excellent but audio quality is just average IN NEW YORK CALL: 212 557-3244 FOR INFORMATION from the internal speakers. The $2,500 OVER 50 CAMCORDER MODELS TO CHOOSE FROM price is definitely steep, but moderate Panasonic compared to the price of 35-inch models. It VHS-C FORMAT 12 Piece Packages AM VHS-C Format is the first of a wave of 30-inch screens, the Deluxe 12 Piece Package CAMCORDER Pee Camcorders prices of which will probably drop with Camera 10. Dub Cable mass production and competition. If you Comera 10. Lens Kit Le rmrmommommrseneivny Charger 11. Lens Kit «\" Bs Naa na Dp have the money and can’t wait, though, the Charger 11. Filter Battery 12. Tripod CX3077 is a high-quality monitor. Battery 12. Tripod $8P9V 1800 Strap rn Blank Tape Filter Sony Video AN Adaptor Handle $698GRC- Color Corrector Dub Cobles Blank Tope Corry Handle AN Adaptor Lens Cap WOLenNs OShnadePwr— RWwO LrensOShadeN $898GRC-7 NEW Palm size, 7 lux, 6:1 power zoom, High speed shutter, weighs 3.2 Ibs. Plays in ony VHS format. RCA EXTENDED WARRANTIES AVAILABLE ON OUR FULL LINES OF CAMCORDERS SONYVHS-C Format Camcorder ALN|iZA1PSGuEyN_\\ | Recently we've re- 12 Piece Packages 12 Piece Package : ceived a few inquir- ies about how to 1, Camera 11. Lens Kit Comera 10. Lens Shade ; Charger 12. Tripod Battery 11. Hand aloe correct tapes made Battery Charger 12. Tripod $788CCD V3 AF Strap Strap with the nega- Filter Blank Tope Blank Tope Head Cleaner tive/positive switch Lens Cop AN Adaptor AN Adaptor § Dub Cables eBWR LwensOCop Nwe! KEPNwNLeDnOs CopN 10. Microphone Weighs 3.5 Ibs., Auto & Manual focusing, 6:1 zoom. Easy to use. Palm size, 10 lux, easy to use, Plays direct on any TV. backlight features. 3.5 Ibs. Plays on any TV or VCR, on camcorders set SUPER WIDE ANGLE LENS MAGNAVOXSIMA BOOSTER BOX FOR COPYING Pre Vis-c$79.95 in the wrong posi- Nikor YN 800 8mm Format Deluxe Camcorder tion. Viewing negative pictures of your Palm Size Camcorder 16 Piece 12 Piece Package Package } high school reunion is no fun. Sony’s XV- Camera 10. Handle wew aM C700 Video Multi Color Corrector is one of Battery 11. Lens Cap Pte Chorger 12. Filter just a handful of machines able to solve that Strap AN Adaptor problem, and it does a lot more. Lens Kit Lens Shade The XV-C700 also features wipes and Dub Cables pO— wNBrlaAnk NTope fades, hue correction, color correction for making whites look whiter, phase correc- tion for making edges softer or harder, and NEW gamma correction for increasing or de- Best picture available, weighs only 2.8 Ibs., palm size, 7 lux, Piezo focusing, depth of field control, high speed shutter. creasing mid-range contrast. It also has a Lightweight autofocus camcorder TOO LOW TO ADVERTISE modest audio mixer for adding music and weighs 3.2 Ibs, east to use with 6:1 power zoom and CCD chip. narration during dubbing. It is an un- CALL FOR OUR LOW, LOW PRICES ON HOME VIDEO CASSETTE DECKS AT42404thLESTXRIEENTGTIONNNEWAVEY.ORKOPCEITNY/IN7 NDYAYCSALL921A2M-5857-3P2M44 complicated collection of the most useful AMERICAN EXPRESS, VISA, MASTERCARD, DINER’S CLUB, DISCOVER CARD processors and correctors. None of the other multi-element processors we’ve tested has the picture repair options of the 7 DAY RETURN POLICY/ALL RETURNS MUST BE PHONED IN FOR PRIOR AUTHORIZATION/ALL PRODUCTS MUST BE RETURNED IN ORIGINAL FACTORY PACKAGING CLEAN, UNSCRATCHED AND WITH BLANK WARRANTY CARDS/DO NOT DEFACE XV-C700. MANUFACTURER'S CARTONS/SHIPPING, HANDLING AND INSURANCE CHARGES ARE NON Rava tes LIMITED /AVAILABILITY 1S NOT GUARANTEED ON ALL ITEMS/IN STORE PRICES MAY VARY/PRICES ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE WITHOUT NOTICE/LICENSED BY THE CONSUMER AFFAIRS OF NEW YORK #800137/PRICES VALID THRU JULY PRICES SLIGHTLY HIGHER IN STORE Description. The dark gray XV-C700 For additional information, circle No. 29 on Reader Service Card. measures 3-1/4 inches high by 17 wide by July 1987 Video 95
Videotests The rear panel hosts a single slide switch for the white clip, which corrects white portions of an excessively white screen. There are RCA-type pin jacks for stereo audio line in, two stereo audio/video in- puts, and two stereo A/V source outputs. The source outputs can loop into the source inputs. Two sets of A/V output jacks deliver the processed input to a VCR or monitor. Inverse output jacks deliver whichever signal is not being processed. Operation. Phase correction lets you sharpen fuzzy edges or de-emphasize sharp edges. You will need to experiment to find the ideal setting. Gamma correction lets you increase contrast and color in the middle tones, a big help for scenes that are (2) TRACY ADAMS very dark or very bright. A number of cameras and camcorders have reversal switches. If you record with that switch in the wrong position, you get a useless negative image. This is one of only three processors we’ve seen that can cor- (7) SAMANTHA STRONG! rect such an error. The back color generator with its four wipe patterns is limited compared to some other special effects generators, but it still allows up to 13 different combinations of patterns. You cannot wipe directly from one unsynchronized source to another, and you must go through a color even when the sources are synced. When you switch unsynced sources, the screen rolls until the sync locks. This gen- WATCH COUPLES, THREESOMES AND MUCH MORE. EVERY POSSIBLE erator works best when you wipe to a col- COMBINATION OF THE HOTTEST SEX VIDEOS EVER FILMED! or, pause the recording VCR, switch = sources with the roll, un-pause the record- ing VCR, and wipe back to the new source. Fade, color correction, color and hue ‘ed adjustments require a little practice. But even though there are quite a number of controls, adjusting them to suit your needs ma4 _ eg y is easy. We rate ease of operation as excel- ___ a (4) ERICA BOYER SUPER BONUS! lent. Buy all 20 videos and get 5 Performance. The XV-C700 slightly extra FREE! Features all time stars: increases gain as frequency rises, so that it * Candy Samples is about 2 decibels up at 4.2 megaHertz. x Seka * Vanessa Del Rio Horizontal resolution is over 400 lines. The * Shauna Grant video signal-to-noise ratio is 52.9 dB un- * Annette Haven weighted and 59. 1 dB weighted, with chro- ma AM S/N at 62.5 dB, and chroma PM S/N at 58.9 dB. Differential gain is within 2 percent with the gamma control off and adjustable with it on. Differential phase is less than three degrees. Along with accu- (Min. Order) ANY 2 FOR $10 — ANY 10 FOR $15 rate color rendition and wide correction ALL 20 PLUS 5 FREE FOR $25 capability the XV-C700 delivers an excel- lent picture from excellent sources and | PLEASE CIRCLESELECTIONS 123456789 10 | greatly improves the quality of imperfect | sources. 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 pqg $3 postage The audio mixer is rudimentary, allow- In Calif. add 67% tax | NU-STAR Dept. O Rush Service add $3 ing you to mix sound from the selected | Box 1381, N. Hollywood, | CA 91604 Enclosed $ | input with sound from the line input and a | NAME | mono microphone. Frequency response is || ADDRESS. 25 Hertz to 20 kiloHertz at + 0.3/-3 dB, —_—_ and is down -4.2 dB at 20 Hertz. Audio S/N | CITY/STATE/ZIP is 62.1 dB and the total harmonic distortion | | SIGNATURE AS is 0.08 percent. We rate audio as very good. | am over 19 and request this material ait \"96 Video July 1987
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Videotests Conclusion. The Sony XV-C700 Video Multi Color Corrector is an ideal fix- the-picture box with features not found on other consumer processors. It also offers some basic wipes and fades and fairly flexi- ble audio mixing. Its suggested price of $700 is a little higher than some competi- tive products, but when it comes to cor- recting flaws in irreplaceable footage it may well be your only option. We recommend it highly. VW] DON’T BE A DROPOUT! 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THE RIGHT VCR One-touch timers are ideal for catching Saves you the trouble of pressing the re- wind button when the tape ends. continued from page 41 those late night movies you start to watch Some medium-priced entries, such as vide access to a wide selection of channels. but can’t stay awake for. Just leave the Zenith’s VR-2220, for $699, include auto The tuners on many VCRs, especially fre- program indexing, which places an invisible quency-synthesized types, can duplicate VCR recording and let it run out of tape: electronic bookmark at the beginning of this function, ifyou attach the cable directly each new recording, so you can quickly find to the VCR’s antenna input. the timer turns off the power after the the spot later on. This feature works along- side the standard counter/memory fea- STEREO SOUND selected time elapses. tures, which return tapes to the zero posi- tion when the memory is on. On some Stereo sound is perhaps the most con- Convenience features abound. Auto-on brands, the feature is labelled Cue, but it fusing VCR feature. It can be recorded and works essentially the same way. played back in two ways. The older method turns on the VCR as soon as you push a places two audio tracks on the top edge of the videotape and records two-channel au- cassette through the hatch. Auto eject dio as two parallel linear stripes, just like audio cassettes do. But the slow tape kicks it back out when the VCR runs out of speed (only about 1-1/3 inches per second at SP) handicaps the audio quality severe- tape in the timer mode, or if you try to set ly, even with techniques like Dolby noise reduction. the timer using a tape from which the safe- The newer method—hi-fi record- =ty tab has been removed. Auto rewind ing—records the audio underneath the vid- eo, using higher speed video heads and the Le THE ELECTRONIC MAILBOX entire tape width for superior quality. ORDER TOLL FREE: 800-323-2325 Some VHS VCRs with hi-fi will play back linear stereo tapes, but not all; you'll have 10-12 Charles St, Glen Cove, NY 11542 e 516-759-1611 to check the instruction manual or use a headphone to test the VCR in the store to COPYGUARD be sure. PROBLEMS? The latest stereo innovation is broadcast The 1987 Video Stabilizer Eliminates: |i ee stereo sound, usually designated by the e Picture Flashing initials MTS, for Multichannel Television Sound. You need an MTS machine to re- e Color Shifts Me ince cord TV shows that are broadcast in ster- e Picture Jitters eo, provided they're available in your area. e Picture Roll All Guard Stabilizer Not all local stations have converted to stereo yet, and many cable systems don’t Imagine rock solid viewing of your favorite movies-including all the latest re-broadcast the stereo signal on their sys- titles. That's what you get with the VideoLink All Guard Stabilizer. Single tems, even if the signal originates in ster- eo. Fisher’s FVH-940, for $600, has an control adjusts for your combination of video components. Video inputs and MTS tuner but records linear stereo with Dolby noise reduction. Ditto for GE’s 9- outputs only. Easy hook-up. Comparable performance to units costing 2-3 7276, for $700, and Hitachi’s VT-1430, for times more. $5995 ORDER TODAY $599. Add $6 for Shipping & Handling MTS stereo VCRs can be either hi-fi or linear stereo. The hi-fi system makes the Also Available: most out of any stereo medium and deliv- ers better quality sound for both monaural Hook-up Cable Kit 10° Goid-end Cable Kit $15 and broadcast stereo signals. Samsung’s VR-6600, for $650, combines an MTS tun- Solidex Wireless Wy; er with VHS hi-fi recording, as does Scott’s Microphone SVR-504S, for $680. If broadcast stereo Digital = eccs os © 6 O08 0 TV isn’t available in your area yet but is counter 2 channels-100 foot promised, a non-MTS VCR can still be a range $ 1 4995 DetaileIrII good investment, since you can always add Rewind/Fast an adapter, like Recoton’s F.R.E.D., to Our most popular enhancer record in stereo. Forward vis or Beta with split screen EXTRAS SALE 539° ON SALE $149 i , $2495 There are a few other VCR features you 3 Piece may want to look for. The “One Touch Timer” goes by several names (Express Video Record, Instant Record, One-Touch Re- Filter Kit cord, among them) but they all work the fi ) same. Press the button and the VCR goes Includes video clear, neutral into a locked recording mode for up to four eet J Requires hours. A typical example will record in density & flourescent 30-minute increments, and a few can even Digital Copyguard Telecine Macro Lens delay the activation time. Specify mm NEw : Eliminator Converts home movies & ? $] g95 slides to video. (p) The Play-Right from Vidicraft. Internally con- Deluxe Video A Deluxe RGR res sii gnal to diigital pulslesse.s. Processes h e Telephoto/ VIDEO . ingigitpalrosbilgneamls to eliminate all copyguard view |Wide Angle \\ CAMCORDER and reconverts the signal to v video, Digital technology means no com- Lens Set pte aadCASE #V-93 SALE oo\"patibility problems. SALE $39\\95: Aluminum Alloy Camcorder Batteries dey 3Battery 1% Inaedea Solidex ba Extra smooth 1220 Pana 220, 300 39.95 Light Kit g614uvc vHs-c 39.95 movement with true 1215 RCA 200, 300 49.95 PLaecakdaci&d sow 12v 0c SALE fluid pan head $7995Video Light. $6995 Up to 45 min operation For additional information, circle No. 60 on Reader Service Card. July 1987 Video 99
Another formerly high-end feature now Beta buyers, left with fewer mid-range that mid-priced VCRs account for so large common on mid-priced VCRs is the picture VCRs among which to choose, can take a chunk of the market, especially since sharpness control. With it, you can adjust a solace in several appealing features VHS many offer video and audio quality equal to TV picture from soft to sharp, depending still hasn’t matched. Sony’s SL-300, for the more gadget-laden luxury models. on your preference. $400, has a three-position switch that ad- With the accompanying chart and a little justs playback color balance and hue to homework, you should be able to get the A number of VCRs with digitally-en- compensate for the effect of recording on best out of the most—a VCR able to meet repeatedly used cassettes. your video needs for some time to come. henced special effects like still frame and slow motion remain in the medium-priced Sony’s SL-HF350, for $550, has hi-fi BEACH MOVIE BINGO category. RCA’s VMT-400, for $699, is stereo and a linear time readout in hours, one of the most feature-laden, but it lacks minutes and seconds. Both SuperBeta continued from page 46 VCRs have wireless remote controls and both stereo sound and hi-fi—two features seven-day/six- event timers. ‘n'roll, dancing and their “mating habits” all that are found on other models in this price receive—to an unsympathetic adult point range and that some buyers may consider Given their features, it’s little wonder of view—‘“humorous” treatment. more important. Still, except for Eric Von Zipper (Harvey Lembeck doing a so-inventively-bad-it’s- PV-320 VHS Camcorder Low Light |jvfMuet—ezteces/Cozmopoamct NEW CCD~110 PRO PV-100 VHS Compact great burlesque of Brando in The Wild EAeutofroacgusa/A>utozoom CCCCDD |GR-C7U Super compact Coimghptu—t8er ChLiupx Fade One) and his moronic motorcycle gang, the Light-7. Lux Flying Erase |autofocus/zoom 15 Lux 8CLmoombw |||AMuotd40oe9l.ocusE/dZirgctoiomngm Mode HQ Circuitry kids come off pretty well. Their energy SHeeacd. 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OmniSTeuanricnhg Digital VCR — MTS _Hifi HiFi Stereo VCR with lent period artifacts and exemplify the puz- WViarrelloebsyse Stow RMeomtoitoen RSWteielmrdoetoeSpeciaSlolaErfifzeacttison WirMeloedses zlement and anxiety adults felt over the Wireless Remote Control Wireless Remote Control changes then taking place. A step beyond CALL CALL Freeze TV Broadcast the Blackboard Jungle/Wild One/High and MTS HQ Circuitry. School Confidential equation of rock music Built—in MTS Decoder and bad kids, beach movies were the first CALL to acknowledge that young people could forge a culture of their own and still be, in 249.95 VR9512 the phrase of the time, clean-cut. VR9520 VR9530 But there is always some kind of genera- tion gap, even today. A new movie (the 229.95] U VR9670 Wiertelegsrseat Msiocurnodphofnreom leotvseryou producers are calling it a “culture/class 249.95} NEW N906U or N916U FWUELL ALLSIONESCAORFRY THE (00 feet away! comedy”) will be released this summer: N-965U ZENITH, MINOL TA,PENTAX, Back to the Beach, starring Frankie and CALL GENERAL ELECTRIC, Annette as the parents of a girl in love with $499.95 UW QUASAR, SANYO,CALL FOR a surfer. Back to the Beach will have music, DX—5000U WEW PRICES! comic cameos, boys and girls dancing in the sand, and a puzzled pair of adults. But Maxell EX. VIDEO Turn your ordinary TV into a when those adults are the youths of our VENTURES MTS StereoSonic Super youth, one gets a sense of what our own MMaaxxeellll HGGOXLD HI-FI “PLAY RIGHT\" allows you System. FR.E.DI MTS parents must have felt when the first beach TDK H5. SEG-CREATOR Decoder with variable noise movies tried to guide them through ’60s to Record Copy—Guarded State-of-the-Art special youth culture. 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