Movie Makers (Jan-Dec 1952)

MOVIE MAKERS WANT TO JOIN A MOVIE CLUB? Write to the ACL for the address of the club nearest you. If there is no club active in your community, we'll send you free a detailed bulletin on how to get one going. Address: Clubs, Amateur Cinema League, 420 Lexington Avenue, New York 17, N. Y. Islands, by Joseph F. Hollywood, FACL, David Grows Up, by Fred Furman; The Fresh Milk Line, by Roy Fulmer, ACL; The Carabi Incident, by Harry Atwood, ACL, and Outsmarted Sniarties, by George Valentine. Kansas City Tlie September program of the Kansas City (Mo.) Amateur Movie Makers, ACL, was personal film night, members bringing in family and other personal footage for screening and open discussion. Who's Ajriad? by Mr. and Mrs. E. M. White, an 8mm. Kodachrome film, was also presented. St. Louis The first meeting of the fall season of the Amateur Motion Picture Club of St. Louis, ACL, was held last month at the Roosevelt Hotel. Guest speaker was Gerald Swinnerton, who gave a talk on the manufacture and proper usage of lenses. A Game of Chance, by Ruth A. Clifton, and Smoky Mountains, by Sterling Swor, both on 8mm., and a 16mm. film on salmon fishing in the Pacific, by Dr. L. R. Allen, ACL, made up the initial film program. A suitcase editor [Continued from page 269] and tapped with suitably placed holes to accept the rewinds. And now a word of caution. It is important that the outer hole on each long arm — the one which will hold the pivoting screw for the short arm — be countersunk on the under side! Otherwise the heads of the pivot screws will protrude from the arms and will rip the covering of the baseboard when the arms are folded away. The screws used here were plated i/4 inch flatheads % of an inch long. To attach the long arms to the baseboard, I drilled two x/4 inch holes exactly 2 inches in from each edge at the rear. Plated carriage bolts, ^4 inch in diameter and 1 inch long, were then hammered in from the under side. Also on the bottom of the baseboard I attached four rubber feet available at any dime store. These prevent the unit from slipping when in use and also protect the surface of your furniture. The actual installation takes but a few minutes. The two arms are put together first: the flathead screw is inserted in the countersunk hole, a flat washer is placed on the upper surface of the long arm, the short arm is added, and then comes another washer topped off by a plated wing nut. To mount these double-jointed arms on the baseboard, washers are slipped over the two carriage bolts, the arms are positioned and then a second set of washers and wing nuts complete the assembly. The action viewer, centered between the rewind arms, and the splicer, positioned well out in front of the viewer, are simply screwed down to the baseboard via the holes usually provided for their mounting. To pin down the cement bottle, I purchased a set of mirror clips in the dime store and fastened them to the baseboard with small screws so that the bottle fits snugly in the center. A couple of windings of Scotch tape around this assembly is a good added safeguard. You will need three clips for a round bottle, four to handle bottles of the Kodak type. Incidentally, a fixed cement bottle makes it possible to work with one hand when you are opening and closing it in the splicing operation. Besides the compactness and portability of this unit, the design has other advantages perhaps even more important. These are found in the doublejointed action of the rewind arms. Because of it your feed and takeup reels can be aligned at will with the action viewer for inspection, the splicer for splicing or halfway between them for rewinding or cleaning. In this way there is no danger of the moving film being scratched as it rubs against the top of the viewer unit. Staff Change [ovie Makers announces with sincere regret the resignation of Don C. Charbonneau. ACL, from the staff of the Amateur Cinema League. Mr. Charbonneau joined the ACL staff in May. 1948. as assistant to William Howe, then head of the League's consulting department. With the latter's resignation in September of that year, Mr. Charbonneau was given full charge of all the League's consulting and club activities — duties which he has discharged since then with ability, devotion and a warm friendliness. Already added to the League's staff as you read this will be Peter D. Dibble, a Bachelor of Arts graduate from Harvard University in 1950 — where he majored in English. Since his graduation and until very recently Mr. Dibble has been employed by the United States Corps of Eneineers engaged in building air bases in French Morocco. Safeguard your Film. Ship in FIBERBILT CASES. 400' to 2000' 16mm. FIBERBILT CASE CO. 40 WEST 17th ST. 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