Movie Makers (Jan-Dec 1953)

MOVIE MAKERS 107 AWARD WINNERS in the annual contest of the San Jose (Calif.) Movie Club, ACL, are (I. to r.) Earl Brisbin, third; Betty Stefenel, ACL, second, and Robert Cicconetti, first. Ralph E. Lawrence, ACL, and J. Donald Sutherland, ACL. These three films comprise the shorter version of The Top of the Ten Best, ACL's new feature program. Also to be screened are Nature's Realm, the 1952 Fox Museum Award film, by George Angel, ACL, and A Philadelphia Story, by Samuel Fass, ACL. Tickets are priced at $1.00 and may be obtained from Eugene Adams. Room 1508A, 55 West 42nd Street, New York 36, N. Y., or at the door on the evening of the show. Kenosha banquet Tne Kenosha (Wise.) Movie and Slide Club, ACL, held its annual banquet on February 11 at the Grace Lutheran Church in Kenosha. On the entertainment side of the evening were screenings of Life Along the Waterways, by Roy C. Wilcox, ACL, winner of first prize at both the Venice and Cannes Film Festivals last year, and Chicago Railroad Fair, by Don Barber, ACL, of the Metro Movie Club of River Park, ACL, in Chicago. Arrangements for the banquet were handled by Timothy Lawler, jr., ACL. Schenectady The Schenectady (N.Y.) Photographic Society, ACL, was host last month to the Albany Motion Picture Society. ACL, whose members put on a special show. Among the films shown were Only an Irishman's Dream, by Madeline Lemperle, ACL; West Indian Odyssey, by Rose and Mary Robilatto, ACL; Journey into Spring and A Letter from Bermuda, both by Helen C. Welsh, ACL; Dutch Interlude, by Esther Cooke, ACL, and Vacation Days, by Mrs. John Flanigan, ACL. Later this month the Schenectady club will take a special program of their films to Albany in a form of reciprocal trade agreement. Miami The Miami Movie Makers Club, ACL, opened the new year very gadget-minded, with demonstrations by George Merz, ACL, of a new tripod head he had designed and sundry other gadgets thought up in odd moments of necessity. On the film side of the evening, held under the direction of George Mesaros, FACL, were The Boss Comes to Dinner, by Ryne Zimmerman, a 1944 Ten Bester, and Magic Mush, by Eric Unmack, winner of an ACL Honorable Mention in 1941. Oklahoma Winners of the 1952 club film contest of the Movie Makers Club, ACL, of Oklahoma City, were Eskimo Life, by Major Harry Reynolds, first in the 16mm. class; Leopard City, by Mrs. Thelma Glomset, ACL, second, and Kay, by R. C. Hardcastle, ACL, third. Dear Cousin, by Mrs. Lucille Kiester, ACL. placed first among the 8mm. films, with Southwestern Scenes, by Clifton Gall, second. Bird fil ming [Continued from page 95] bushes. For a bird with a bill full of insects is one that has tiny mouths hidden away somewhere waiting to be fed. 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