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  • Page 1 FLX-110 Electronic Publishers ™ OVIE IEWS User’ s Guide...
  • Page 2 Franklin’s confidential and proprietary information which you agree to take adequate steps to protect from unauthorized disclosure or use. This license is effective until terminated. This license terminates immediately without notice from FRANKLIN if you fail to comply with any provision of this license.
  • Page 3 Introduction Congratulations! You now own a powerful movie guide that you can take anywhere. MovieViews is designed to help you quickly find the movies that you want to see, in ways that you can’t ac- complish with a printed book. With your elec- tronic movie guide you can: •...

  • Page 4: Key Guide

    Returns you to the previous menu or BACK erases letters. Shows the Cast menu. CAST Clears your entry. CLEAR Selects a menu item or highlights a ENTER cast name in movie reviews. Shows the Games menu. GAMES Shows help messages for the current HELP screen.

  • Page 5: Getting Started

    Getting Started Turning MovieViews On The first time you use MovieViews, a brief dem- onstration appears automatically. 1. Press ON/OFF 2. If you want to stop the demo, press Disabling the Demonstration You probably do not want to view the demonstra- tion every time you turn MovieViews on.
  • Page 6 Viewing the Tutorial MovieViews includes a tutorial that shows a list of the keys and their functions, and gives an overview of the product. 1. Press MENU to mark Tutorial . 2. Press 3. Press ENTER 4. Press to read text. 5.

  • Page 7: Changing Settings

    Changing Settings You can change the type size, the shutoff time, and the screen contrast of MovieViews. The type size determines the size of the words, when reading movie reviews and help mes- sages. The shutoff time is how long the product stays on if you forget to turn it off.

  • Page 8: Finding A Movie Review

    Finding a Movie Review MovieViews contains movie reviews for over 5000 movies between 1914 and 1994. Here is how to find a movie by name. Note : All of the lists in MovieViews are alphabetized letter-by-letter, regardless of punctuation. For example, the movie Ace Ventura: Pet Detective is listed before A Change of Seasons .
  • Page 9 Finding a Movie Review 3. Press ENTER 4. Press to read the movie review. 5. Press CLEAR Note : From within the movie review, you can press view or PREV Another Way to Search for Movie Titles You can also search for movies by typing the first few letters of the movie, and then pressing title you want is marked.

  • Page 10: Finding Movies By Cast

    Finding Movies by Cast With MovieViews you can search for movies that feature one or more specific cast members, as well as many other categories. In this example, we will search for movies that feature Lee Marvin. 1. Press CAST 2.
  • Page 11 Finding Movies by Cast 5. Select a movie. You can search this list the same way that you would search the main movie list. 6. To return to the Cast menu, press 7. Press CLEAR Selecting More Than One Cast Member If you check more than one cast member, MovieViews will search for movies that star both cast members.
  • Page 12 Locating Movies by Categories You can look for specific movies by narrowing your searches by categories. In the following example we will search for movies that won Academy Awards for Best Adapted Screenplay. 1. Press MENU 2. Select Locate. 3. Select a category (e.g., Awards ). 4.
  • Page 13 Locating Movies by Categories Awards The Awards category lists movies that have won Academy Awards from the twenty-seven major award categories. You can also look for films that received awards in more than one category (e.g., movies that won awards for Best Leading Actress and Best Director).
  • Page 14 Locating Movies by Categories Theme There are over 550 themes in MovieViews, and most movies have over ten themes each. Themes are the subject matter of the films (e.g., Drama , 19th Century , Robin Hood , etc.). You can look for films that share one or more themes.

  • Page 15: Locating Movies By Year

    Locating Movies by Year You can search for movies by entering a year or a year range. In the following example we will find movies that were released in 1973. 1. Select Year from the Locate menu. Parentheses indicate the decade column is selected. three times to mark 19<7>0 .

  • Page 16: Putting It All Together

    Putting It All Together With MovieViews you may fine-tune your searches even further by selecting multiple search items in a single search. The combina- tions of search items are virtually endless. In this example, we will look for PG-13 movies that star Kevin Costner and were released in 1994.

  • Page 17: Placing Notes

    Placing Notes You can place a personalized note in a movie for quick reference; notes can be used to mark your favorite movies, movies that you want to rent, or recently seen movies . Your notes are marked in the movie review with a 1.
  • Page 18 Viewing & Removing Notes Viewing a Note 1. Press MENU 2. Press ENTER Your note list appears. 3. Press to mark a note, if needed. 4. Press ENTER 5. Press CLEAR Removing a Note 1. Go to the movie review with the note you want to remove.

  • Page 19: Playing The Games

    Playing the Games MovieViews has two games that will test your movie knowledge, Hangman and Movie Quiz. 1. Press GAMES 2. Press Movie Quiz . 3. Press ENTER 4. Select Clear Scores from the Games menu to clear the scores for both Hangman and Movie Quiz.
  • Page 20 Playing the Games Movie Quiz In Movie Quiz, your goal is to guess a movie from a series of ten hints. The sooner you figure out the movie, the more points you gain. After selecting Movie Quiz from the Games menu, you will be given your first clue.
  • Page 21 (2) This device must accept any interference received, including interference that may cause undesirable operation. Copyrights, Trademarks, Patents, and ISBN © 1995 Franklin Electronic Publishers, Inc. Burlingon, N.J. 08016-4907 USA. All rights reserved. © 1992 Electronic Movie Guide, Inc. U.S. PATENTS; 4, 490,811; 4,830,618; 4,891,775; 5,113,340;...

  • Page 22: Limited Warranty

    Franklin will, at its option, repair or replace any product at no further charge to the end user on determination by Franklin, in its sole discretion, that the product was defective and that such defect arose within the duration of this limited warranty.

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