Quibbles & Bits

. . . How concerned is Warner Bros. about potential piracy of its “Batman” video due out Nov. 15? The studio had a special security guard posted outside the door where the video transfer was done to protect precious master tapes. A spokesman for Warners Home Video called the extra security “unusual--I can’t, in recent memory, recall an occasion where it was done before.”

. . . Legendary bootlegger George (Machine Gun) Kelly is the subject of competing film projects--one from the Price Co., in association with Sam Arkoff, another from Pathe Entertainment, to be written and directed by Donald Cammell (“Performance”).

. . . Counterculture no more: The video for the new Jefferson Airplane tune, “Planes,” had assistance from . . . the Pentagon.