Diskette Has Tabs On Videos

It's a video guide for the computer age.

Movie Recall ($9.95, Trade Service Corp.) delivers the basics -titles, release dates, stars - on nearly every movie available oncassettes and discs. But this isn't just another pretender to thevideo-reference throne long owned by Leonard Maltin's annual TVMovies and Video Guide. Movie Recall is an original, staking its ownterritorial claim: It is not a book, but a bargain-priced diskettefor IBM and compatible PCs. Because of the computer connection, itsports some high-tech features that no printed book can offer.

Say, for instance, you only remember part of a film title; sayyou remember just "Mrs. Muir." Look it up under "M" in most guidesand it will take some time to find what you're seeking. But plug"Mrs. Muir" into Movie Recall and - blip! - there she is: the GeneTierney-Rex Harrison classic "The Ghost and Mrs. Muir" (1947, CBS/Foxtapes and discs).

Now, how about ALL of the movies on video with the word "Ghost"in the title? Have Movie Recall do the searching and it will come upwith about 90 entries (as well as films starring comic-actress AliceGhostley!).

Clearly, the computer element gives Movie Recall its uniqueposition in the low-price video-reference marketplace.

At $9.95, Movie Recall is an inexpensive holiday gift for thevideo collector with an IBM PC. For the program to work, those PCsmust have an 80286 or higher CPU, a high-density floppy drive (3.5-or 5.25-inch) and a hard drive.

The debut version of Movie Recall contains some 22,000 titles.

Distribution of Movie Recall is limited to a handful of outlets,including select Blockbuster Video stores. For availability, call(800) 854-1527, Ext. 445, 9 a.m. to 7 p.m.