Movie Makers (Jan-Dec 1930)

IVaO^'ME ira/«.lCEK£S AND THIS IS FROM UNCLE DUGGETT It Is A Production Of The Waterloo, Iowa, Movie Makers' Club Fairs As Locale THE camera corps of the Heart 0' Texas Cinema Club at Waco, Texas, is working on The Carnival Kid, a rollicking tale of side shows, barkers and the sawdust ring. Scenes of the Texas State Fair at Dallas have been taken and other fairs and country festivals will be caught for background along with authentic shots of ranch life. The cast will number over two hundred before the film is completed, for the lively Waco club is making use of many citizens in atmosphere and mob shots. Although characters have not been cast as yet, the club has established Franklin Bannister, Manuel Harris and Robert Kelly as cameramen. Two In Toronto PHOTOPLAY production, technical programs and the screening of 16mm. movies for hospitals and other institutions are planned by the newly organized Toronto Amateur Cinema Club of Toronto, Canada. A committee is now working on the scenario for the first production. At the last meeting The Dream of Eugene Aram, prize winner in Photoplay's first amateur movie contest, was screened. N. L. Martin has been selected president; H. G. McKinley, secretary-treasurer and, with these two, Kenneth Hamilton, J. G. Rutherford and Adam Bell make up the executive committee. Other officers will be chosen as the need arises. The new club has the cooperation of the Canadian Society of Cinematographers, the Toronto Camera Club, the director of the Hart House theatre, and many other professional groups. Aid to the amateur cameraman is the primary purpose of the Cinema Club of Toronto, the second well-established amateur movie club in that city. Officers chosen at the organization meeting are Austin Campbell, president; A. I. Willinsky, first vice-president; R. C. Harris, second vice-president; Capt. R. A. Young, secretary; McKenzie Williams, treasurer. Committee chairmen are R. D. Michener, programs; E. 0. Jones, membership; G. R. Lockhart and J. MacLagan, technical; F. S. Reid, scenario; L. Tliatcher, production and J. McKinley, civic service. New School Club THE use of motion pictures in studying football plays and in recording class activities is featured in the program of the recently organized Springfield High School Movie Club of Springfield, Mo. Production of a short photoplay is scheduled. Officers of the new amateur unit are Vernon H. Gaston, president; Roberta Samuels, vice-president; Mary Louise McClancy, secretary-treasurer. Australians STUDENTS at Trinity College, Melbourne, Australia, recently completed The Smoke Screen, running about 400 ft., 16mm. The picture, an all-exterior farce, was directed by Carl E. Resch, assisted by Arthur Heymanson, and photographed by Miss Julie Resch. The story was written and scenarized by Ronald L. Wilkinson, while leading parts went to Joyce Dean and Frank Nelson. Two Comedies IN Orange, N. J., the Berkeley Place Cinegraphers Club has already two comedies to its credit, Chocolate Pie and Father's Day Off. A third short situation-comedy dealing with the complexities of family life, when the husband is supposedly at home and sick, has already been placed in production. Frank M. Seiffert, Jr., is president of the club, now in its fourth month. The other officers are George Ohlmann, vice-president; Mary Norton, treasurer; Richard Hopkins, secretary; David Bogdan, chief cameraman. Minnie and Peter Norton, William McGall and Marion McGee were in recent films. (Continued on page 61) MAKING UP FOR GALLEON GOLD These Players Will Appear In This Production Of The San Jose Players 29