Hollywood Studio Magazine (July 1971)

For the music minded This seems to be the era of specialized museums. Now it’s Heritage Museum on S. Olive in Los Angeles. Where else would you have assess to the most extensive collection of antique musical instruments in the west, along with a complete full scale 1874 barbershop and a turn-of-the-century model village with 5,000 moving parts, including animated people and equipment built on a scale of one inch to one foot? Here, too, if you’re a record buff, you can examine the first automatic record changer (1924), a product of Victor Talking Machine Co., and something you’ve always wanted to see, the ingenious automatic violin. We’re used to animated people, even via automation. It’s the barbershop that gets to us. You remember barbershops, don’t you, junior? *** Now, its radical change Even the diehards are now beginning to predict traumatic changes in television programming within the decade. At a TV Workshop for the Association of National Advertisers, one network spokesman prophecied such revolutionary innovations as free-running shows of varying lengths, no longer limited to the half-hour or m u 11 i ples-of-same restrictions. (BBC has been doing this since the beginnings of TV) Another startling prediction covered daytime “soaps” and game shows, due for a different look to pacify an increasing percentage of male viewers! On the brighter side, the same expert noted that viewer interest in TV generally is leveling off and, evidently because of this, specials, sports and news are due to become more important. Isn’t THAT comforting? *** The beginning ? You knew it might happen. Now it’s really about to ... first-run features aimed at CATV. On Sept. 1, according to GG Productions, Boston-based film distributors, 26 features, 15 of which are still in theatrical release, will be offered to CATV, not so much for profit, president Russo says, as for establishing the distributor as “a prime supplier of new product to CATV operators.” Films include “The Last Gun,” with Cameron Mitchell, “Head of the Family,” starring Leslie Caron, “The Exquisite Cadaver” with Capucine, etc. Fascinating windup of the news release points out that GG Communications, parent company of GG Productions, is in the process of ibuilding three CATV systems in southeast Massachusetts. For the uninitiated, there are some 2600 cable systems in the U.S. at present. Of these, fewer than 350 have more than 3500 subscribers. Of these, according to FCC rulings as we go to press, only the system with 10,000 or more are required to cablecast, and even that ruling is subject to review. Without supportive advertising, who’s to pay for first run films? *** VINCENT PRICE HONORED FOR 100TH FILM AND CIVIC CONTRIBUTIONS AT WORLD PREMIERE OF “DR. PHIBES” - Los Angeles County Supervisors unanimously voted a plaque to Vincent Price for his 100th film and civic contributions, and it was presented to him by Supervisor Ernest E. Debs at the Charity World Premiere of American International’s “Dr. Phibes” at Pantages Theatre on Hollywood Boulevard, at a big, old-fashioned celebration. Subteen idol Everything gets younger even squealing fans, age 10, who coo at the sight of singer Bobby Sherman. First it was “The Partridge Family” and an episode which became known as a new Bobby Sherman series. Now it’s “Getting Together,” the true name of a half-hour upcoming this fall on ABC’s 8 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Saturday slot. Sherman, paired with Wes Stern, plays one of two songwriters who tries to make a career for himself in Hollywood. Other regulars, Pat Carroll and Susan Neher. With the first episode before the cameras at Screen Gems the last week in June, Shyer and Mandel, series story editors, will work with 12 writers already signed: John D. F. Black, Albert E. Lewin, Charles Shyer and Alan Mandel, Dick Baer, Ron Friedman, Peter Meyerson, Bill Bickley, Dick Bensfield and Perry Grant, Steve Zacharies and Dennis Klein. Did we mention Shyer and Mandel? 15505 ROSCOE BLVD. at San Diego Freeway SEPULVEDA 5 crzr r c