November 2007 Archives

Produced by the SCMS Public Policy Committee's Subcommittee on Fair Use, the "Statement of Best Practices in Fair Use in Teaching for Film and Media Educators" was approved by the SCMS Board of Directors this fall. The statement is available on the SCMS site. The statement provides media educators with guidance on fair use of media in classrooms, distance education, and educational broadcasts.

In addition to the installation, MOMA is running two screenings of Gehr's works later this month.

"Experimental media artist Ernie Gehr's Panoramas of the Moving Image (2005) is a synchronized five-channel video installation that uses eighty-seven original slides and views selected from Gehr's personal collection and that of renowned pre-cinema collector David Francis. Projected side by side, the slides create a mesmerizing wide-screen spectacle. A selection of vintage paper Zoetrope strips and Phenakistiscope discs—complementary artifacts of nineteenth-century moving-image technology—are also on display."

Proquest announced today that "the latest release of the AFI Catalog sees the completion of records for the year 1972...the Catalog now offers a continuous history of American cinema from 1893 to 1972, and new records for the 1970s will continue to be added in forthcoming releases.

1972 was a seminal year for American film, with the release of Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather, along with a number of early films by Coppola's contemporaries from this new generation of filmmakers:

• Woody Allen's Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* but Were Afraid to Ask and Play it Again, Sam
• Robert Altman's images
• Peter Bogdanovich's What's Up, Doc?
• John Boorman's Deliverance
• Martin Scorsese's Boxcar Bertha
• Michael Ritchie's The Candidate

The older generation of directors from the Classic Hollywood era were also still very active: this year saw the release of Billy Wilder's romantic comedy Avanti!, Hitchcock's penultimate film Frenzy, John Huston's western The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean and Joseph L. Mankiewicz's Sleuth. Other notable films of the year include The Poseidon Adventure, Sam Peckinpah's notorious Straw Dogs, and the ecological science fiction film Silent Running.

As well as plot summaries, notes and source citations, all records include full production credits, details of cast and music, and indexing by both subject and genre. The 1972 records include a number
of films indexed as 'Horror' (Dr Phibes Rises Again, Wes Craven's The Last House on the Left), 'Blaxploitation' (Super Fly, Shaft's Big Score!) or even both (Blacula)."

Search the American Film Institute's catalog in Film Indexes Online.

Paramount Vantage is providing final scripts and other information for several new films including Margot at the Wedding, Into the Wild, and A Mighty Heart.