Record City

Record City (1978)

Get Your Laughs Off at ... THE STORE WITH MORE

Lighthearted comedy chronicling the exploits of the employees at a record store.

Date of release
1978-02-08
TMDB
5.2 / 10 (4)
Runtime
1h 33m
Genres
Comedy
Director
Dennis Steinmetz

Casting

Interesting facts

Record City is a 1977 American comedy film starring Ed Begley Jr., Sorrell Booke, Michael Callan, Jack Carter, Frank Gorshin, Ruth Buzzi, Dennis Bowen, Larry Storch, and Alice Ghostley. It was made on location at Eagle Rock, California.

Production

Record City was spearheaded by former CBS-TV executive James T. Aubrey, who produced this picture with what was then a visionary approach: it was recorded on much less expensive videotape instead of professional 35mm film. The edited tape was transferred to 35mm film for theaters and to 16mm film for television syndication and college showings. "Out of this may come a revolution," predicted Aubrey.

But speed was producer Aubrey's main concern—he avoided a three-month period of film-laboratory post-production and prepared the videotape master and the film negative in a few weeks' time, so he could open the film in theaters as a lightweight summertime comedy.

Unfortunately for Aubrey, his distributor, American International, held back the release until the fall of 1977. Boxoffice magazine reported that "first showings" in Chicago were held on November 4, 1977.

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