Movie Makers (Jan-Dec 1953)

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76 automatic opening device has been added to the Radiant Model KC screen to make the tripod legs snap open simultaneously and instantly. A transparent plastic shield for holding and protecting stereo slides has been developed by Revere Camera Corporation in conjunction with marketing their new Revere 33 stereo camera. Classified advertising 10 Cents a Word Minimum Charge $2 B Words in capitals, except first word and name, 5 cents extra. ■ Cash required with order. The closing date for the receipt of copy is the tenth of the month preceding issue. EQUIPMENT FOR SALE I BASS . . . Chicago. Cinema headquarters for 43 years offers money saving buys in guaranteed used equipment. 16mm. Zoornar complete, "C" mt. and Cine Special with close-up attach. List $1650.00; price $750.00. Pan Cinor 20mm. to 60mm. for Bolex or adaptable to B&H 70DA, list $447.50; price $325.00. Cine Special I, single sprocket, 1" f/1.9, 15mm. j/2.1 W.A., $395.00. B&H 70DA, 1" //1.5 Wollensak, 15mm. f/2.7 E.K. w. a., 3" //4 B&H Telate Comb, case, $247.50. Bolex H-16, 1" f/lA Biotar, 2" //3.5 Cooke, 3" //2.5 Wollensak, $325.00. 8mm. Revere 99 Turret, f/2.8 B&L lens, $52.50. BASS SPECIAL: Brand new Revere Mod. 55, case, list $73.50; net, $52.50. Best buys.. . . Best trades always. BASS CAMERA CO., Dept. CC, 179 W. Madison St., Chicago 2, 111. ■ SHOOT YOUR OWN perfectly centered titles with any movie camera by using Bull's Eye Camera Centering System. Complete kit, $2.95 postpaid. Satisfaction guaranteed. BULL'S EYE PHOTO PRODUCTS, Box 8174 Plaza Station, Kansas City, Missouri. ■ FREE : Up to 10 rolls 8mm. color film or 30x40 screen with every purchase of a new camera or projector valued at $50.00 to $175.00. Best trades in the country. Order now. PHOTO SERVICE, Box 170, Dept. MM, Rock Springs, Wyoming. ■ FOR SALE: Brand new Filmo 70-DL, 1" //l.S Cooke; .7" //2.5 Super Comat; 3" //1.4 Telate. Matching finders, 3 Skylight filters in mounts. $385.00. Please, no bargaining. At ACL. Box 297, c/o MOVIE MAKERS. EQUIPMENT WANTED ■ MOVIE FILMS; MOVIE EQUIPMENT; bought for cash ; sold, or exchanged. Prompt replies. FRANK LANE, 5 Little Bldg., Boston, Mass. (Free lists.) FILMS FOR RENTAL OR SALE ■ NATURAL COLOR SLIDES, Scenic, National Parks; Cities, Animals, Flowers, etc. Sets of eight, $1.95; Sample & list, 25<. SLIDES, Box 206, La Habra, Calif. ■ 1953 ROSE PARADE movies. Kodachxome. Colorful floats. Beautiful girls. 200 ft. 16mm., $34.95. 100 ft. 8mm., $17.50. Calif, add tax. C.O.D.'s accepted. AVALON DAGGETT, 441 No. Orange Dr., Los Angeles 36, Calif. ■ NORM JACOT'S 1953 Rose Parade in color as low as $15 — 8mm.; $30 — 16mm.; 400' x 16mm. color •ound, $80. BOX A572, Manhattan Beach, Calif. MISCELLANEOUS ■ KODACHROME DUPLICATES: 8mm. or 16mm., 11£ per foot. Immediate 6ervice on mail orders. HOLLYWOOD 16MM. INDUSTRIES, Inc., 6060 Hollywood Blvd., Hollywood 28, Calif. ■ SOUND RECORDING at a reasonable cost. High fidelity 16 or 35. Quality guaranteed. Complete studio and laboratory services. Color printing and lacquer coating. ESCAR MOTION PICTURE SERVICE, Inc., 7315 Carnegie Ave., Cleveland 3, Ohio. Phone* Endicott 1-2707. ■ 8mm. HOLLYWOOD TITLE STUDIO 16mm. Complete titling service. Color and black and white. SPECIAL DISCOUNT TO AMATEUR CINEMA LEAGUE MEMBERS. Send 10c1 for Price List and Sample. Address: 1060 North Vista Street, Hollywood 46, Calif. ■ EXPLORE SCANDINAVIA with motion picture expedition, eight countries northern Europe. $1350. each, June 5, forty day*. NEIL DOUGLAS, Lecturer, Box 664, Meriden, Conn. MARCH 1953 CloseupS— What filmers are doing Across The Threshold: Bringing greetings from the entire membership of the Cine Club Piemonte, in Turin, Italy, Antonio Bozzoni, ACL, was an animated and enjoyable visitor last month at League headquarters. A new Filmo 70-DL was high on his list of "musts" in America. Also in from overseas were Peter von Rysinge and Jerry Roelofs, both of the Netherlands, who arrived in the friendly tow of Bert Seckendorf, ACL, of the Brooklyn Amateur Cine Club, ACL. Peter, we learned, is a member of the Hague Amateur Film Club and a brother of Karl von Rysinge, ACL, a League member of years' standing. If and when there is any competition for the oldest film footage to be served by a 25 mil magnetic sound track on double perforated stock, our money will be on a certain 2000 feet of black and white pictures shot by Walter Kerst on a European trip during 1924 and 1925. This makes them, according to our arithmetic, all of 28 years old — and we do not invite any arguments from calendric casuists among our readers! We always lose. Anyway, Mr. Kerst — who, in 1927, was the League's first consultant, and who is now general manager of Bell & Howell's New York office — plans the addition of a quarter-stripe on this venerable record of his youthful wanderjahr. . . . We will welcome any data purporting to push this record into second spot. Our illustrations this month should persuade you that A. C. Hugh, whom we hailed last year as the "Popcorn Prince" of the British Isles, is not one to give up easily on a filming problem. Needing, for a certain sequence of The Popcorn Story, a chemist's labo A. C. HUGH, of Chigwell, England, lines up his motor-driven Filmo 70-DL for filming a closeup on the "chemist's laboratory 1900" set, below, which he established in an empty corner of his huge popcorn plant. ratory of the 1900's, Mr. Hugh simply set it up in 1000 square feet of empty plant space — with the results as seen. Other sets called for by his definitive documentary are "Government House, Paraguay, 1792" and "Pilgrim Fathers at a banquet in 1630." Movie Makers records with sincere regret the death last month of Thomas J. Courtney, director of the Nova Scotia Bureau of Information, at Halifax. He was fifty three. Probably only to earlier members of the League — to which group Tom Courtney belonged from 1937 through 1948 — will the name be familiar. And yet he was, in our experience, one of the most sensitive and creative filmers with whom we worked as ACL consultant. Tom's first film — sent in, probably, about 1937 for a routine review — was a monochrome, moody and almost motionless study of the Nova Scotian seacoast. In reviewing it, we stressed as eloquently as we were able the importance of human interest; we cited a few simple examples, and even sent him a film of that type for study. The rewards were immediate and amazing. Mr. Courtney came back in 1938 with another monochrome record of that rocky foreshore he loved so well — but this one was alive with human interest. It was called Riches from the Sea; it told a simple and moving tale of two rugged youngsters wresting their meager spending money from the ocean by selling lobsters — and it was named by ACL among the Ten Best films of that year. To prove that this picture was no fluke, Courtney switched to color and backed it up the following year with Royal Visit — Halifax 1939 — another Ten Bester. Here, with a newsreel technique which out-covered and out-created the professionals, T. J. recorded in ob