Movie Makers (Jan-May 1928)

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All officers have not yet been elected nor has a name for the club yet been chosen. We congratulate Washington in that it does "choose to run". Rochester Pundits VV7ITH such organizers as George ** Eastman, film magnate and prominent member of the Amateur Cinema League, Eugene Goossens, noted composer and director of the Rochester Community Orchestra, Dr. C. E. Mees, world-wide cinematic and photographic authority, Eric T. Clark, director of the Eastman Theatre, Dr. Sibley Watson, Professor Clarence H. Moore and Mrs. Harold Gleason, Amateur Cinema Leaguer and amateur scenarist, a new amateur motion picture club has come into being in Rochester. This club, designed to realize the full possibilities of motion pictures as a medium of community expression, plans to cover all phases of amateur cinematography; it will conduct experiments and give its members the benefit of exchanging both films and ideas; it plans the production of at least one photoplay a year. These are to be new departures from the conventional. Mr. Goossens promises musical settings written especially for them. Many of the organizers of this promising body were connected with the production of two notable amateur photoplay achievements, "Fly Low Jack and the Game" of the Rochester Community Players and "Mauve Passion" of the faculty of Rochester University, this being a satire on a number of things that these collegiate producers found worthy of humor. Calif or nians Circularize A TWO page circular letter explaining the purposes of the Amateur Movie Makers of California, signed by Charles S. Morris, chairman of the organizing committee, has gone out to more than 600 Bay City amateurs. San Francisco will be the headquarters of this new body and the club will cover a fifty mile radius in central California. There are some 2500 amateurs in this region who should provide a solid backing for this fine venture. A monthly news letter, a film exchange, a projection room and photoplay production are promised. Hartford Players TPHE Hartford, Connecticut, Ama■*■ teur Picture Players, organized in September, are now shooting the interior scenes of "Mischievous Betty", from a scenario written by club members. Louis Tamiso is president, Steven Tamiso, secretary and Virginia Perry, treasurer of this earnest group. Hamlet Left Out A PHOTOPLAY completely cine **• matic — that is, telling its story in a way that nothing but motion pictures could achieve — is under way at Colgate University, Hamilton, N. Y., under the direction of Howard E. Richardson. "A Day in College" presents twenty-four hours — not of the James Joyce, type, however — out of the life of a Colgate student, without giving pictures of any faces. The whole film will consist of closeups of hands and feet and it will follow the hero, in this way, through his entire collegiate day. Continuity will be indicated by clock closeups. The purpose of this film, aside from its being a distinct cinematic experiment, is to enable the spectator to identify himself completely with the hero and live, in imagination, the collegiate routine, without disturbing this identification by seeing on the screen a face, not his own. This is the type of amateur experiment we may expect increasingly from clubs. Devry Program HPHE Movie Makers Club of Chi-*• cago was given a complete program in December by the DeVry Corporation with talks by H. A. DeVry, president, A. P. Hollis, advertising manager and author of "Motion Pictures for Instruction" and R. V. Weart, illustrated by unusual amateur camera screenings. At an earlier meeting, the Movie Makers viewed "Hey Hay", produced by the Motion Picture Club of the Oranges and "A Trip Through Film Land", depicting the manufacture of motion picture film. Siegfried Does Comedy CARRIED on simultaneously with its serious film "Repentance", the Amateur Motion Picture Club Siegfried, of Jersey City, N. J., has "Don Carlos's Studio" under way. This tells of the adventures of two tramps posing as motion picture directors in a rustic community. Carl Ihrig plays Don Carlos and C. Petrovitch plays Von Wonder. This club Fifty -eight