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...Seven Dwarfs (1937), Disney established the rules of the movie-fantasy universe and anchored it in the fears and wonders of childhood. But Disney's success turned the innovator into a caretaker at the mausoleum of his own style. After his death, the studio limped along on audio-animatronic pilot, while the true heirs of the true Walt--canny kids like George Lucas, Steven Spielberg and Jim Henson --updated the old master's tricks and made pots of dough. Now a new generation of Disney artists, some young enough to have made Star Wars, Close Encounters and the Muppets their...
Visu S-193, "Workshop: Film and Anthropology," offers a veritable trip around the world and through the human psyche. For a workshop tuition of $785, Emile de Brigard, director of film research, Robert G. Gardner, director of the Peabody Museum film study center and Jean Rouch, visiting audio-visual professor from the University of Paris will teach human behavior as seen through non-fiction films...
...known to bat out 74 script pages in a night; no first draft takes more than a week. Such informed, automatic writing demands that you live inside your subject, and for Hughes the bell is always ringing on the first day of class. "He has an incredible memory--visual, audio, emotional--of his own high school years," notes James Spader, who played the deliciously haughty preppie Steff in Pretty in Pink. "He's very much in touch with the adolescent part of himself," Sheedy says. It's a golden touch. Who wouldn't grab the chance to remake...
...stations have made the technical conversion, and 300 more plan to do so this year. Then, of course, the home viewer must either have a stereo TV or convert his conventional set to stereo with an adapting device (average cost: $150). Once a set is stereo-ready, more sophisticated audio gear can be connected to it. Bill Artope, a producer for Needham Harper Worldwide advertising, who lives in Evanston, Ill., has hooked his new stereo TV to a state-of-the-art amplifier, preamp and 6-ft.-high speakers. "It sounds like a theater at home," he says...
...when the yen's rise will stop, Japanese companies are trying to cut costs. Some firms are planning to shift production abroad to avoid further exchange-related losses. Victor Co. of Japan will begin producing videocassette tapes in Tuscaloosa, Ala., this fall, and plans to double production of audio equipment at its Singapore plant. Says Darrel Whitten, associate director of research at Bache Securities (Japan) Ltd.: "The strong yen will accelerate this tendency to rely on overseas production, just as the strong dollar helped push American manufacturing and assembly overseas...