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Warner CountersCritics\1776/By DICK KLEINER HOLLYWOOD (NEA)Jack Warner is still about the most outspoken of the Hollywood oldtimers. Even though his big historical musical, “1776,” is doing well at the box office, Warner is a bit miffed at some of the reviews.“Any so-and-so who doesn’t like that picture,” says Warner, “isn’t a true American.”In the old days, song hits came out of Broadway musicals. Then it was movies that made the musical memories of the moment. You’d think that today TV would have taken over, as the birth-place of songs.““No,” savs record man Larry Uttal. “TV can’t make a record hit. And neither can the movies or the Broadway musicals any more. Today it’s radio that makes hits.“TV and the movies can create record situations. It’s radio, through constant repetition, that makes songs into hits.”As Exhibit A, Uttal — head of Bell Records — cites the case of one of his big hits, “I Think I Love You” by The Partridge Family. People think that was a TV-made hit. Uttal says it was recorded before the show ever went on the air and wasn’t performed on TV until around Thanksgiving of that year.Through radio it had become a hit long before it was done onTV.As Exhibit B, he talks about the original cast album of “Lost Horizon,” which his company is releasing. The movie won’t come out until sometime in the spring. But he’s willing to bet that one or more of the songs will be hits ahead of the film’s release because the album will be out and exposed on radio.I asked Uttal what he thought of double-entendre records, such as Chuck Berry’s subtle-as-a-kick-in-the-groin single called “Rockin’ and Rollin’.” He said he didn’t think there were too many of them around.“Actually.” he said, “the recording industry is the clean-est of all the arts today, because it is so closely policed by the FCC.“A big, bold prediction — within a few months, tape will supplant film for the bulk of TV production.“That prediction comes from Bob Seidenglanz, who is naturally in the tape business. What he’s done is fill a demand before it existed. He’s built a couple of small trucks — Compact Video is the name of his firm —- which are equipped to make taped TV on location anywhere.Buisness is booming. Seidenglanz’ trucks have filmed dozens of commercials, segments of many local Los Angeles shows, large hunks of the Julie Andrews Show, upcoming specials starring Elvis Presley, an NBC special called Up With People, and much more.With the miniaturized equipment he and his staff build, Seidenglanz’ operation can make a show, he says, in a tenth the time of filmed TV. And he says that, with tape rather than film, a TV show can be edited in a day, instead of four weeks it ordinarily takes.They’ve developed what they call “computerized editing,” which enables them to put scenes together in a few minutes. This is such a recent development — only perfected in the last six months — that many people in the industry are unaware of it.Although the company specializes in musical shows so far, they have done one TV drama — “Sandcastles” — and it turned out well. Tape is the coming thing for TV production, and companies like Compact Video are making it possible.1*1 AM ISPacific Stars StripesFriday, Feb. 2, 1973M6LL0, ?mmiHT PAm? WE'RE TH1NKIN6 A0OUTHAVIN6 A TESTIMONIAL PlNNEft RK CHARLIE BfeJtaJN./coi/lp Hwcmt7.■■. 's. S.'//sC'S - CHlWiHi
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Pacific Stars and Stripes
Tokyo, Tôkyô, JP
Fri, Feb 02, 1973
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