Movie Makers (Jan-Dec 1953)

Record Details:

Title:
Movie Makers
Date:
Jan-Dec 1953
Publisher:
Amateur Cinema League, inc.
Volume:
Movie Makers (Jan-Dec 1953)
Leaf #:
000110
Language:
English
Collection:
Non-Theatrical Film
Format:
Periodicals
Contributor:
Library of Congress, MBRS, Moving Image Section
Sponsor:
Library of Congress, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Movie Makers, the official publication of the Amateur Cinema League, documented and championed home movies and production by local film clubs. During 27 years of publication, Movie Makers provided extensive coverage of the growth of 16mm, the availability of Hollywood films to the home, filmmaking style, amateur production, and color cinematography. -- David Pierce, 2013
Date Added:
December 02, 2023
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106 APRIL 1953 Chicago show For the first time in its long history, the Chicago Cinema Club, ACL, will sponsor this year a cine show open to the public by paid admission. Present plans call for a two-night presentation — on April 30 and again on May 9 — of a program featuring Drums of the Congo, by Carl Buck, ACL, and The Valley of Forgotten People, a study of the Navajo Indians by Clarence Koch, ACL. The show will be staged at the club's theatre in the Civic Opera Building, 20 North Wacker Drive, in downtown Chicago. Further information and tickets, which are priced at $1.00, may be obtained on application to Mr. Koch, at 1218 North Kedzie, Chicago, 111. N. Y. Eights The New York City 8mm. Motion Picture Club's annual gala night, which will be held on April 10 at the Hotel Statler, will feature Backyard Birding, a 1952 Ten Best film by Herbert Shumway, ACL, and Mountain Playground, a 1952 Honorable Mention film by L. G. Darby. Also on the program will be The Boy Next Door, by Beverly Seibert; Magic Medicine, by the Los Angeles 8mm. Club, ACL; Pierre and Priscilla, by Mr. and Mrs. Silas J. Lawler, and Living Dust, by George A. Valentine. Tickets are $1.50 and may be purchased at the door. Be sure to attend this outstanding film evening! Milwaukee gala The Amateur Movie Society of Milwaukee, ACL, will present its annual Gala Program on April 17 at the Shorewood auditorium in that city. Tickets are priced at $.60, including tax, and may be purchased at the box office on the evening of the show. Among the outstanding films that will be shown are Duck Soup, by Delores and Timothy Lawler, ACL, the Maxim Award winner for 1952; A Photographic Spree, by Erma Niedermeyer, ACL, first prize winner in the club's own 1952 contest; Ice Revue 1952, by Ervin Lorence, ACL, second prize winner; Bermuda Cruise, by Dr. Arthur Hankwitz, ACL, third prize, and In Fancy Free, the 1951 Maxim Award film, by Glen H. Turner, ACL. N. California The six top films in the Filming for Fun contest sponsored by the Northern California Council of Amateur Movie Clubs, ACL, were Just Foolin' Around, by Gordon Robertson; Sierra Summer, by Othel Goff, ACL; Yellowstone, by Milton Daley, ACL; A Problem in Division, by Donovan M. Smith, ACL; Really No Time, by I. J. Honeychurch, and Worlds Apart, also by Mr. Smith. Honorable mentions were awarded to Picnic Daze, by Robert Cicconnetti; Chronicle Balloon Parade, by Jesse W. Haddock, and Dissolves, by Betty Stefenel, ACL. The six top films will be viewed by the individual clubs which make up the Council and voting by each club will determine the grand prize winner of the six. Good luck to all! TTB in Midwest The Midwest premiere of ACL's new Top of the Ten Best program will be presented in Chicago on Sunday evening, May 3, at a joint screening sponsored by the League and the city's Associated Amateur Cinema Clubs. There will be no charge for this out standing film presentation, which is open to the movie-making public. The screening, which will be the climax of a day-long convention of the AACC member groups and their members, will take place at the Hamilton Park Fieldhouse, 72nd Street and Normal Boulevard. James W. Moore, ACL, the League's managing director, will be present in person to introduce The Top of the Ten Best program to this large Midwestern audience. Brooklyn gala Tne fourteenth annual 16mm. gala show of the Brooklyn Amateur Cine Club, ACL, will be held on April 17 at the St. Felix Street Theatre in downtown Brooklyn. Among the films scheduled to be shown are Duck Soup, the Maxim Award winner for 1952 by Delores and Timothy Lawler, ACL; Muntre Streker, by Mathis Kverne, selected as one of the Ten Best films of 1952, and Birds of Washington, by Where to see THE TOP OF THE TEN BEST Date Sponsor Tickets and Information April 17 Los Angeles 8mm. Club Kenneth W. Ayers 5750 West 74th Street Los Angeles 45, Calif. May 3 Associated Amateur Cinema Clubs, Chicago, III. Peter Bezek 122 West Kinzie Street Chicago 10, III. May 9 Big Lake (Texas) Cine Club Dr. John L. Wright, jr. Box 278 Big Lake, Texas May 15 Golden Gate Cinematographers, San Francisco, Calif. A. Theo Roth 140 Paraiso Place San Francisco 16, Calif. May 22 Indianapolis Amateur Movie Club Walter R. St. Clair 3542 Guilford Avenue Indianapolis 5, Ind. May 27 Kenosha Movie and Slide Club Timothy Lawler 7420— 25th Avenue Kenosha, Wise. Where to see the JUNIOR TOP OF THE TEN BEST Date Sponsor Tickets and Information ■ April 14 Dayton Amateur Movie Makers Club Kenneth J. Snelling R.F.D. 5, Box 5-B Dayton 4, Ohio April 17 Brooklyn Amateur Cine Club Eugene Adams Room 1508A 55 West 42nd Street New York 36, N. Y. April 22 Tulsa Amateur Movie Club Lt. Col. William Hornsey 221 East Jasper Tulsa, Okla.