Movie Makers (Jan-Dec 1952)

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90 MARCH 1952 MMPC Gala Tne annual Gala Night, sponsored by the Metropolitan Motion Picture Club, ACL, of New York City, at the Hunter College Auditorium on March 1. fea tured the following program: North woods Adventure, by Frank E. Gunnell FACL; Around Lot 34, by Henry J Auger, ACL; Bedtime Story and Ber mudiana, by Helen C. Welsh. ACL; Two Paper Cups, by the Grand Rapids Amateur Movie Club. ACL; Movie News Scoops, by George Merz. ACL, and the 1951 Maxim Award winner. In Fancy Free, by Glen H. Turner. ACL. All films were Ten Best or Honorable Mention winners except Bedtime Story, which won first prize in the club's 1951 short film contest. Schenectady Members of the Movie Group of the Schenectady Photographic Society, ACL, enjoyed recently their traditional annual visit from members of the Amateur Motion Picture Society of Albany, ACL. The program screened by the Albany visitors included Oaxaca, by Esther Cooke, ACL; Spooney's Specialty, by Francis M. Spoonogle. ACL; Lourdes, by Madeline Lemperle, ACL; Bedtime Story and Bermudiana, by Helen C. Welsh, ACL. In April the Schenectady group will visit Albany. Lonq Beach The two March sessions of the Long Beach (Calif.) Cinema Club feature projection of 8mm. and 16mm. films and a talk by George Cushman on Titling, Right From the Beginning. The films being screened are All Washed Up, by club secretary Vida Lowenstein; America the Beautiful, by Nellie Lloyd, and Mesa Verde National Park, by Jack Bill Langhorst Lloyd, all 8mm. The 16mm. films are Hi Country, by Forrest Kellogg, ACL; Ghost Towns, by Mr. Cushman. and Death Valley, by Joe Stoklasa. Cape Town Recent programs for the Cinematographic Section of The Cape Town Photographic Society, ACL, of South Africa, have included a lecture demonstration on new sound techniques being developed for amateurs: screening of travel films by member H. H. Herman; study of the group's production. Captain of None, led by the director. B. Fisher, and a screening of African films on Ansco Color by Mr. Brook, with commentary by H. A. G. French. Los Angeles Highlight of the March meeting of the Los Angeles Cinema Club. ACL. was the talk, What Makes Color Tick, by Carroll H. Dunning, president of Dunningcolor Corporation. A showing and evaluation of 2 by 2 inch slides, presided over by William H. Palmer, followed. Puerto Penasco, by Charles Peters, based on a story concerning the Roosevelt hideaway in Mexico, concluded the program. The club has inaugurated a shut-in program, with members lending time and films for showings to inmates of hospitals, orphanages and similar institutions, a worthy addition to any club's activities. Ottawa program The February meeting of the Ottawa Cine Club, of Canada, featured a demonstration of new 8mm. cameras for the instruction of members. A showing of slides and 8mm. films by club members followed, the films being Cal TOLEDO AMATEUR MOVIE MAKERS, ACL, parade their officers (I. to r.) as follows: C van Roosmalen, treasurer; George Canning, past president; Henry Auger, ACL, president; Freeman Enbody, ACL, secretary; Donald A. Snyder, past president, and George Brand, ACL, vicepresident. JOHN SHERARD, retiring president of the 8-16 Home Movie Makers of Kansas City, ACL, presents year's awards to Alice Burton, Joseph N. Glover and H. L. Perrine. gary Stampede, by the Calgary Movie Club; Hugh Robertson Paints a Watercolor and Speckled Dynamite, by Watson Balharrie. ACL. Chicago features Three feature films by club members have been offered at recent sessions of the Chicago Cinema Club, ACL. The first was A Journey of Human Interest, by Noah Van Cleef, ACL. This was followed by From the Prairie, to the Mountains, to the Ocean, by Felix S. Pollak. and Beaverland Adventure, a nature film on the industrious little dam engineers, by Herb Bennett, ACL. Tropical Holiday, by Charles Lonk. and Jerry Gets a Haircut, filmer not given, brought the club through February. Visitors are always welcome at the club's screenings, which are held at the Civic Opera House, 20 North Wacker Drive. Chicago, on the first and third Thursdays of each month. Vailsburq Members of the Vailsburg (N. J.) Cine Club, ACL, had the opportunity recently to study the manufacture of magnetic sound tape when they screened a film produced for and by Audio Devices, 444 Madison Avenue, New York City. The film is a documentary record of the manufacturing process; clubs interested in seeing it should write the above address for a booking. Ernst Wildi, ACL, of Paillard Products, was guest speaker at a subsequent meeting of the club, at which he showed a film and gave a talk on lenses. Denver Members of the Camera Click Club, ACL. of Denver, produced a short film in the course of a recent meeting. This was a comedy skit based on unexpected guests invading a family's rare at-home evenings. All the stops were pulled and everybody got into the act. with such trick effects