Movie Makers (Jan-Dec 1952)

MOVIE MAKERS 249 CloseupS— What filmers are doing Precision Engineered Movie Camera by Europe's Finest Camera Craftsmen I Seems that Oscar H. Horovitz, FACL, gathered an additional honor recently without either he or we lifting a finger. The first we knew about it was when the U.S. State Department phoned us to ask for his address so that they could deliver a trophy from Italy. The trophy was awarded by some gathering called the 8th International Festival of Sports Cinematography, held at Cortina d'Ampezzo, and the film (so help us!) was Mr. H's 1947 Honorable Mention award winner Ice Follies — obviously a sporting event. We had, it seems, sent the film to Milano on a routine booking from ACL's Club Library. How it got into a Festival of Sports Cinematography is a problem we have decided to forget. ACL'ers showed up in New York City in force the middle of last month to lend their time and talents to the cine section programs of the PSA convention held here. Among those present (not necessarily in order of their appearance) were ACL's president, Joseph J. Harley, FACL, who screened his 1944 Maxim Award winner, In. His Oivn Judgement ; Glen H. Turner, ACL, on from Springville, Utah, with his first (the 8mm.) Maxim winner, One Summer Day; Emma Seely, FACL, APSA, of Cleveland, with A Mourning Dove Family, and Avalon Daggett, ACL, of Los Angeles, who screened Villages in the Sky. Esther Cooke, ACL, came down from Albany, N. Y., with her 8mm. Mexican study Oaxaca; Margaret Conneely, ACL, was in from Chicago with Circus Capers ; Charles Carbonaro, FACL, sent his Voice of the Key, 1950 Honorable Mention winner, down from Boston, while William Messner, ACL, tripped over from Teaneck, N. J., with Maxine's Career. J. Don Sutherland, ACL, and Ralph E. Lawrence, ACL, both from Washington, D. C, and both bird filmers, brought Adventures in Birding and Nature's Free Show. Also present (but possibly not on the EDUARDO Dl FIORE, ACL, of Buenos Aires, who began movie making at seven with a C-K Eight. programs) were Harris B. Tuttle, FACL, FPSA, from Rochester, N. Y.; Arthur H. Elliott, ACL, a League director from Chicago; Louis and Paul Buehler, ACL, from Allentown, Pa.; the Reverend William Coley Roeger, ACL, of Chalfonte, Pa. ; Josephine Scott, ACL, of Columbus, Ohio; Mrs. Marville L. Kent, ACL, from Midland, Mich., and Edmund Shively, ACL. from Mifninburg, Pa. Matter of fact, even the planning and execution of the movie programs were in the hands of two local ACL'ers: Ernst Wildi and Ray Moss. . . . Hm-m-m. Across the Threshold: Among other visitors to ACL headquarters in recent weeks was J. C. Soucie, ACL, of Indianapolis, an 8mm. fan with both an Ampro and an Eastman camera. A member of the National Travel Club and of the National Parks Association, Mr. Soucie specializes in American travel studies. He was headed last month for Gallup, N. M., to record the annual festival of Indian dances. We have long since accustomed ourselves to meeting some exceptional personalities in the amateur film world. But we must confess to having been considerably awed the other day by an effervescent young Argentinian, Eduardo Douglas di Fiore, ACL, by name, of Buenos Aires. Now 24, he has been filming for seventeen years, having been given a Cine-Kodak 8 at the tender age of seven. Our accompanying illustration should indicate that his equipment since then has grown commensurately with his age. Son of an Argentine theatre owner, Eduardo devotes his time (about equally, we imagine), to helping Father manage his movie houses, to the Cine Club Argentino (housed in one of Papa's picture palaces), to his own productions (which are legion and legendary), to playing host to visiting film luminaries and to writing for Correo Fotografico, Argentine photographic magazine. 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