Movie Makers (Jan-May 1928)

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REEL OF THE MONTH \ xl: v y. CLUB, NOW! "Highlites of the News," No. 9 Official Pictures of PRESIDENT GOOLIDGE AT THE GREAT PAN-AMERICAN CONFERENCE The latest release! Calvin Coolidge arrives at Havana Harbor aboard the massive dreadnought Texas to attend the Pan-American Con' ference. Scenes of an unparalleled demonstration. .. .pictures of the foreign dignitaries from LatinAmerica. . . .guns booming their welcome from Morro Castle. ... 100 feet alive with historic interest. .. .filmed from various choice vantage points by famous newsreel cameramen. This event, destined to go down in the annals of history, is recorded on 16 mm. film. .. .obtainable at $7.50 per single reel at your nearest dealers. .. .or with a subscription to the Reel-of-the-Month Club. THIS IS THE ONE OUTSTANDING REEL FOR THIS MONTH! TO BE CERTAIN OF GOOD REELS JOIN THE CLUB TODAY Owners of home projectors who are anxious to receive the best reels are joining the Club. The Reel-of-the-Month Club sends to its members the best reel of each month. . . .delivered by postman on the first day of every month. NOT A RENTAL SERVICE Each reel sent to members of the Club is their property valuable additions to film libraries. .. .pictures to be treasured and viewed with interest year after year. Write for a list ot past releases! JOIN THE CLUB TODAY! Join today! Fill out the membership application blank printed below and send to the Club address, or ask your dealer to forward your application for membership. AND REMEMBER, THE REEL-OF-THEMONTH CLUB IS NOT A RENTAL SERVICE . . . YOU OWN EVERY FILM THAT YOU RECEIVE. APPLICATION Reel-of-the-Month Club, 507 Fifth Avenue, New York City. Gentlemen: Please accept this application for membership in the Reel-of-the-Month Club. Enclosed find check for ($20) 3 months' membership— ($75) for 12 months' membership. In return you will send, postage prepaid, one 100 ft. 16mm reel on the first of every month. Write on white margin NAME ADDRESS STATE CITY Seventy-two THE NEW FILMS for Home Projectors THE February Library offerings are enriched by the addition of three new film libraries to the field of distributors for home projectors, The Fowler Studios of Los Angeles, California, The Stanley Library of New York, N. Y., and the Neighborhood Motion Picture Service, Inc., of New York and Chicago. The offerings of these companies are listed below. This rapid increase in the scope of the home library field is a further evidence of the wealth of screen material from which the amateur may choose real entertainment values. Automatic Movie Display Corporation, New York, N. Y. (Vitalux Movies), feature this month "The Animal Fair" (a McCrory cartoon), "Sweet Revenge" (a Christie comedy), "Hunting Wild Turkey in Maryland" (a Field and Stream subject), and a release from Florida, the Enchantress Series, "Tarpon Fishing." Bell & Howell, Chicago, 111., announces for their Filmo Rental Library: two Christie Comedies, "Uppercuts" and "Soup to Nuts"; two Felix Comedies, "Two-Lip Time" and "Trifles with Time"; two Hodge Podge Travel Stories, "A Merry Go Round of Travel" and "The Story Teller"; a Larry Semon Comedy, "The Cloudhopper", and a Cameo Comedy, "In Deep." The Filmo Sales Library releases include six new Bray Studio Comedies, "Red * Riding Hood," "Bryce Canyon National Monument," and "Zion National Park." Cine Art Productions, Hollywood, California, invite attention to a 100 ft. subject, "Ruins of Rome," a companion to the Pompeii and Vesuvius films, and to the' new release, "Tony's Punctured Romance," in the series of animated cartoons being produced especially for 16mm. projectors, one of which will be issued each month during 1923. Empire Safety Film Company, Inc., New York, N. Y., calls attention to the new series of Zobelogs, Myron Zobel photography, which will take the amateur to many out of the ordinary spots in the world. Stress is laid on Nos. 7 and 19. Then, also, there is the "Raid Over London." Fowler Studios, Los Angeles, California, announces releases to the amateur world for the first time through Amateur Movie Makers, and offer one film "Mojave Desert" without cost other than carrying charges. Their golf reel, "MacDonald Smith Coming In Ahead At The 3rd Annual Los Angeles $10,000 Open," also figures in the opening announcement. Wm. J. Ganz Co., New York, N. Y., announces the "Official Pictures of President Coolidge at the Great Pan American Conference" as the current "Highlites of the News," and this historical picture has also been chosen as the February "Reel of the Month Club" release. Home Film Libraries, Inc., New York, N. Y., plan to release 5-reeI features within the next few weeks which they will rent for the same price as their present shorter features. Among their current offerings attention is drawn to James Oliver Curwood's "Broken Silence," and '"My Lady of Whims," with Clara Bow and Donald Keith. Burton Holmes Lectures, Inc., Chicago, 111., have ready for the amateur projector "Canals of Venice," "The Damascus Gate," and "Two Ends of a Rope." International Educational & Scientific Film Library, Hollywood, California, offers as its leading feature the "Beautiful Floral Parade As Held At Pasadena, California, Jan uary 2nd, 1928." Kodascope Libraries, Inc., present as their latest "Pictures That Please": "The Covered Wagon," "Behind the Front" (Beery-Hatton), "Grass," and "Miss Bluebeard" (Bebe Daniels). Amateurs may also look forward to early release of Larry Semon Comedies, in one and two reels. Neighborhood Motion Picture Service, Inc., New York, N. Y., this month inaugurate the release of educational courses to the home of which eight complete courses are now in readiness. "Film Lessons in Nature Study," an eighteen reel course, is featured for February. Full details of this educational plan are announced in the pages of this issue. Pathe Exchange, Inc. (Pathegrams), New York, N. Y., pushes Westerns particularly this month and calls attention specially to their Leo Maloney film, also introducing a new reel "Hygiene" (known as "Stretch and Keep Well"). In the comedy line is "The Jolly Jitter," featuring Ben Turpin. "Winter Sports" is the Grantland Rice Sportlight feature, and there is an addition to the Smith Family. Ernest M. Reynolds, Cleveland, Ohio, includes in his February offerings to the amateur "Rough Weather" and "Sundown Dancer." Stanley Library, New York, N. Y., lists among its first offerings: "The Nonsensical News Reel," originally edited and titled by Bert Green, "America Fights for Freedom," a war film, "Chicks," showing the first day in the life of a baby chick, "Hey, Hey, Ukelele" (Sophie Tucker and others), "Net Results," a tennis instruction film with Vincent Richards, and "A Day in a Studio," showing amateurs how the professionals work. These films have been edited by Don Bennett, well known to readers of Amateur Movie Makers. Show-at-Home Movie Library, Inc., New York, N. Y., follows its plan of two superfeatures a month. This has resulted in the releasing of Skinner's Dress Suit (starring Reginald Denny and Laura La Flante), "Lorraine of the Lions" (starring Norman Kerry and Patsy Ruth Miller), "Outside the Law" (with Lon Chaney and Priscilla Dean), "California Straight Ahead" (Reginald Denny and Gertrude Olmstead), and "The Still Alarm" (Wm. Russell and Helene Chadwick). Westerns and comedies, 2 reelers, are released one each week. Stone Film Laboratory, Cleveland, Ohio, has for the sport lover or alumni college clubs football films "Pittsburg vs. Stanford," and "Pennsylvania vs. California." Other releases are "Around the World in Thirty Minutes" and a special filming at Pasadena of the "Tournament of Roses of 1928." CINE ART Announces THREE NEW 16mm. HOME LIBRARY RELEASES EACH MONTH FOR 1928 Let us place your name on our mailing list for free descriptive folder to be mailed each month. CINE ART PRODUCTIONS 1442 BEAGHWOOD DRIVE Hollywood, Calif.