Movie Makers (Jan-Dec 1953)

MOVIE MAKERS 105 CloseupS— What filmers are doing Time was, when the 8mm. filming system first started, that every movie maker in this new medium went around with a defiant look on his face and a chip of inferiority-complex on his shoulder. Brother turned against brother, movie clubs split down the middle on the 8-16 line, and the pleasant community of interest in our chosen hobby was almost rent asunder. Today that foolish and unfounded feeling seems largely to have vanished. But if wisps of it still linger in the "breasts of a few filming brothers, we invite them to consider the case of Herbert D. Shumway — an 8mm. ACL worker of Greenfield, Mass. His name first came to our attention in the 1951 Ten Best contest, when Nature Campers, a pleasant (but overfooted) film by Mr. S., won an Honorable Mention. No laurel-rester he, Shummy bounced back in 1952 with a shorter (and better) nature film called Backyard Birding, to knock off an indisputable Ten Best. Furthermore, between those two accomplishments he had written (with clarity) and photoillustrated (with skill) two bipartite articles — Let's Make a Nature Movie, which appeared last year in March and April, and Do Your Oivn Developing, which followed in October and November. All of which is by way of giving you some idea of the man's verve and versatility. And, if these arguments are not enough, we can cite further evidence in this issue. On page 94 you will find his Bird Filming for Beginners (again with his own illustrations) , while on this page you will find him represented by Winter on the Farm. This comely composition won Mr. Shumway second place in a nation-wide contest for color transparencies, the satisfying sum of $250 in cash, with another two-fifty going to his Franklin County Camera Club, ACL. Not a bad haul for an hour's work on a winter afternoon — even though (says Shummy) the windlashed air was subzero in temperature. The contest, to wrap this up, was con WINTER ON THE FARM, a pleasing picture even in black and white, won Herbert Shumway, ACL, of Greenfield, Mass., a $250 award in color slide contest run by a calendar maker. ducted by The Osborne Company, of Clifton, N.J., producers (among other things) of calendars and such. Mr. S's 4 by 5 Kodachrome entry won out over more than 3000 others in the competition's first year. Our sympathies are heartfelt for the judges in the years ahead. Some guys have all the luck! As if he didn't have enough fun last summer filming the fifth annual Rochester Race (a Great Lakes point-to-pointer) on the winning yawl Escapade, Walter Chappelle, ACL, is even now cruising the west coast of South America in a fourboat flotilla for a duration of three months. And the most galling part of it all is that he was practically ordered to do so! Mr. Chappelle, when not wasting his (and the company's) time on such frivolous expeditions, is an executive instructor in the sales-training courses run by Eastman Kodak at Rochester. How he maneuvered his way from that post into this plushy assignment might well be a matter for a McCarthy investigation; but the fact remains that he has been burdened down with 11,000 feet of 16mm. Kodachrome — 'and officially charged with shooting it! To put the best possible face on this affair, the junket is known as the South American Scientific Expedition, it is sponsored by Yale University, and its members allegedly seek information about the Humboldt Current and such other nonsense as "the cover content of the (sea) water and chlorophyll of plants." But as you— and Mr. C. — well know, Humboldt waters are famed primarily as one of the world's finest sites for big game fishing . . . Ah, well, good shooting, Walter! And now here's another fella who's combining his filming and fun. Charles H. 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