Movie Makers (Jan-May 1928)

MR. CINE DEALER-, This is a message to You! AMATEUR MOVIE MAKERS is the magazine of the movie amateur. It has no other mission in life. But through the fact that it MUST kee.p amateurs advised of all services, accessories and films available to them, it has developed into a builder of business for cinematic dealers which has no rival. Why, then, do you not take into consideration the fact that AMATEUR MOVIE MAKERS, although it is a NATIONAL medium, is as valuable to you in your own bailiwick as it is to the manufacturer or national distributer who is backing you up by national advertising in the magazine through which he can best aid you, AMATEUR MOVIE MAKERS Take advantage of the money that is being expended in your behalf by manufacturers and national distributers to make their goods known to the amateurs! ADVERTISE to your local cinematographers WHERE those goods are on sale! Warning! Destruction ahead— Proceed at your own peril! Will you continue to endanger the existence of the especially prised original direct positives in your collection by repeatedly running them through your projector? How can you ever replace precious views of loved ones gone beyond recall? Events of historic import cannot be re-enacted for your benefit. One showing may injure these pictures irreparably. Don't take chances! Let SUPERLAB make a negative from your direct positive, now, before the damage is done. It is a safeguard you cannot afford to overlook. SUPERLAB prints from SUPERLAB duplicate negatives are always as good as the original, — and often better! Our laboratories offer a comprehensive, up-to-the-minute professional service to the amateur movie maker. It is available through your dealer. Write us for further information. Superlab Corporation 233 West 42nd St., New York City Laboratories, Palisade, N. J. Wisconsin 4020 Sixty-jour JOINING in these friendly greetings, Mr. Sidney Delmar of the Wyko Projector Corporation wrote: "It is now time to contemplate the progress made by Amateur Movie Makers during the first year of its existence. Its first birthday has just been observed. "For a yearling, it is a very lusty youngster. In fact, it looks to us as though it had cut its teeth, learned to crawl, tested its legs, and suddenly found itself in its youth — and all in the space of a year. "May we, therefore, extend our heartiest congratulations to your magazine, and wish you many happy returns of the day." /CHARLES BASS of the Bass Cam^-* era Company, Chicago, wrote: "This morning I received the twelfth number of Amateur Movie Makers. It seems like yesterday when the first number reached my desk, and here the first year has rounded out its course, and with what mingled feelings of surprise and enthusiasm I glanced through the remarkable contents. To me who has devoted eighteen years dabbling with the tools of the movie makers, both professional and amateur, to me who has read reams upon reams of technical articles pertaining to the motion picture industry, thousands of periodicals dating from the very infancy of the motion picture industry, I am rather proud to say you have hit the keynote and blazed a trail which makes the course of the amateur movie maker easy, indeed. In all industries there is a leader, and I am rather proud to say that Amateur Movie Makers is a leader in its field. "While it is not in order to speak in mercenary terms on occasion of your first birthday, may we add that our advertisements which appeared in each issue of Movie Makers have been a financial success from the first. "Members of the Cinema League from every part of North America have visited our store during the past year. Inquiries for our literature have been mailed to us from the four corners of the earth. Keep up the good work. You are on the right track. You are giving the amateur what he needs. Your technical departments are superior and more practical than any ever published, and the price for the magazine — a modest two bits — makes the best buy on the news stand. "More power to you and success!" WflLLOUGHBY'S of New York ** City sent a cordial message through Joseph Dombroff , Secretary : "Greetings to Amateur Movie Makers on its first anniversary. Ever