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Focuses on the withdrawal of the film `Porgy and Bess' from video distribution. Beginnings as a full-pledged opera; Gershwins' response to the musical film version.

Features the motion picture `The Hill' which was directed by Sidney Lumet. Film as an exception to other Lumet works; Planned release of the film by MGM/UA Home Video.

Reports on the plan of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. to release in video motion pictures from its library. Plan in celebration of the studio's 70th anniversary; Several films included in the release.

Features William A. Wellman's 1942 satire `Roxie Hart.' Cast; Broadway adaptation of the film in 1975.

Features FoxVideo's Studio Classics library. `Alexander's Ragtime Band,' starring Tyrone Power, Alice Faye and Don Ameche; `Blood and Sand,' starring Tyrone Power, Alice Faye and Don Ameche; `I Was a Male War Bride,' starring Cary Grant, and Wac-y Sheridan; `People Will Talk,' starring Cary Grant and Jeanne Crain; `Fingers,' starring James Mason; `Pinky,' starring Ethel Waters and Ethel Barrymore; More.

Profiles filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock. Background information on his career; Information on efforts to release works by Hitchcock from his pre-1940, British period.

Details the lobbying for family-oriented films and re-editing videos for adults by the Dove Foundation. Michigan-based family values group; Mission; Dove-approved versions; Viability of recut versions on video; Reasons why Hollywood does not want to sanitize films; Question raised on the ratings of the Motion Picture Association of America; Problem with profile of Dove Foundation. INSET: I fought the law (laws on video rental), by Judy Alk Karren..

Features the movie `Sign of the Cross,' by Cecil B. DeMille. Plot; Cinematography; Restoration in 1990 by the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) Film and Television Archive; Plans for a video release.

Features musicians Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart. Collaborations for `The Lady Is a Tramp' and `My Funny Valentine'; Royalties for each performance of their songs; Professional background.

Presents the cable channel Cinemax's `Not on Home Video' movie line-up.

Features baseball movies. Biographies and comedy/fantasies; `It Happens Every Spring'; Comment by actor Robert Wuhl.

Discusses the teaming up of director Penny Marshall's Parkway Productions with QVC cable shopping network to hawk the movie `A League of Their Own' merchandise. Skepticism over deal; Sale of 800,000 dollars worth of products; Gross of the movie; Future negotiations with the channel.