Movie Makers (Jan-Dec 1952)

MOVIE MAKERS 57 ClOSeupS— What filmers are doing Verna Turney, ACL, author in this issue of Just For Fun!, bought her first 8mm. camera in 1939 and promptly knocked out a 700 foot travelog on her first time at bat. The subject? A trip to the Northwest (from her home in Oklahoma City) covering Salt Lake City, the Columbia River Highway, Mount Ranier, Victoria, B.C., and Yellowstone National Park. Joining, in 1947, the Movie Makers Club, ACL, of Oklahoma City, Mrs. Turney won third place in the 8mm. division of the club's first contest, held the following year. The film was Autumn and ran only 50 feet of 8mm. color. In 1949 she jumped into first place with The Seasons (150 feet) and repeated this win in 1950 with Just For Fun! — again only 150 feet in length . . . You can draw your own moral from these facts about film length! Mrs. Turney has served the MMC as secretary-treasurer since 1948. Says her most interesting other hobby is collecting antique glass. Ralph E. Gray, FACL, on his preholiday visit to the nation's capital, was made an honorary member of the Washington Society of Cinematographers. An audience of over 560 persons attended Mr. Gray's showing of his prize winning films at the Natural History Museum, reportedly a record crowd for a photographic event at this institution. Twenty one, married to a lovely young lady, and a student at Miami University — there in a capsule is the pleasant prospect to which Frederick R. Klosterman, ACL, awakes each morning in his home at Coral Gables, Fla. Don't blame us if this makes you discontented! Yet when you read Fred's letters, you sense that (for the present, at least) movie making means more to him than Sette Klosterman FRED KLOSTERMAN, ACL, of Coral Gables, Fla., whose title frames illustrate and whose captions illuminate Titles Aren't Tough!, page 41. VERNA TURNEY, ACL, of Oklahoma City, shot 700 feet, won nothing; shot 50, won first. all these happy circumstances of his living. "This filming fascination has really taken me within its tow," he wrote us recently. "I have changed my major at MU to Radio, TV and Motion Pictures, and this next semester I will be taking Motion Picture Workshop and Press Photography. Also there is the prospect of filming university news events for TV presentation." If you take a look at Fred's title frames on page 41, you can tell in advance the kind of marks he'll knock off in these courses. IF the classic beauty of ante-bellum Southern Colonial architecture says anything to you, the annual Natchez Pilgrimage may be just the subject your movie making needs. The six tours through thirty magnificent homes will be staged this year from March 1 through March 30, and it will take you three days to go the route. The pilgrimage is sponsored jointly by the Natchez Garden Club and the Pilgrimage Garden Club, in Mississippi. Either group of ladies will be pleased to send you more information. Ernesto Fink, ACL, of Mexico City, is visiting New York City for a few weeks and from here plans to go to Denver and then on to San Francisco, hoping to have time to call on clubs in both places. An 8mm. filmer mainly interested in travel shooting, Mr. Fink, formerly of Vienna, Austria, delights in filming the little known and out of the way places in Mexico. Russell T. Wing, ACL, of Minneapolis, Minn., stopped by to see us before the holidays, and we had a very pleasant chat about nature filming, which is Mr. Wing's chief interest. He has a Cine Special, converted for a 4-lens turret and two Bell & Howell cameras. His son has a Bolex H-16. This makes the Wing family one of the best equipped, cinematographically speaking, of any we know. When there's a birthday in the family — or any other occasion— light up and shoot! It's so easy . . . with the new Medium Beam G-E Reflector Photofloods. General Electric really planned them for movie work. They put more usable light on subjects, use less current, and permit up to 4 lamps on one home circuit. Tops for color. And to follow action, just put the new PH-375s in camera bracket lights. (Ask your photo dealer about handy complete package — lamps and light bracket). Get the New MEDIUM BEAM GE REFLECTOR PHOTOFLOODS GENERAL ELECTRIC