Movie Makers (Jan-Dec 1953)

136 MAY 1953 TTB in April Last month The Top of the T en Best, ACL's record-breaking program featuring the 1952 Maxim Award winner and five other selections from the Ten Best competition of 1952, saw quite a bit of traveling across our country, from New York and Massachusetts to Texas and California. Among the clubs which screened the program to capacity audiences were the Franklin County (Mass.) Camera Club, ACL; the Greater Denver Cinema League, ACL, and the Amateur Motion Picture Society of Denver, ACL; the Los Angeles 8mm. Club, ACL (Southern California premiere) , and the Omaha Movie Club, ACL. The shorter version of the package feature, The Junior Top of the Ten Best, was shown by the Southwest Movie Makers Guild, ACL, of Houston, Texas; the Dayton (Ohio) Amateur Movie Makers Club, ACL ; the Brooklyn Amateur Cine Club, ACL, and the Tulsa (Okla.) Amateur Movie Club, ACL— besides several private screenings by individual League members. To see where these programs will be playing in your immediate area, consult the booking timetable found elsewhere in this department. Kenosha contest Grand Award winner in the recent contest conducted by the Kenosha (Wise.) Movie and Slide Club, ACL, was Of Mice and Little Boys, by Charles Found. Other winners in the 16mm. division were My Kids, by Gene Arneson, ACL, second, and Box Camera Shutterbug, by Louis Troestler, ACL, third. In the 8mm. division the winners were You Can't Win, by Shirley and Larry Jornt, first; The Big Horns, by Eldon Voelz, second, and Kenosha's Parks, by Dr. J. P. Graves, ACL, third. Awards were made and the films screened at the club's annual show on April 8. Kansas City Winners of the recent 8mm. contest held by the 8-16 Home Movie Makers, ACL, of Kansas City, Mo., were October Holiday, by Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Emslie; Amateur Hobby, by Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Perrine, and A Freight Train Wreck, by P. E. Werrell, in that order. Congratulations to all the winners! Highlighting the club's annual banquet on March 23 was a screening of The Top of the Ten Best, ACL's new feature program. One of the season's outstanding social events, the banquet was attended by well over a hundred persons, all of whom, it was reported, enjoyed a superb evening of entertainment and good cheer. Bergen County interior filming was the subject of the April 6 meeting of the. Amateur Movie Society of Bergen County, ACL, in New Jersey. Among the films shown to illustrate the results of good and careful lighting were Serenade to a Maid, a club production; Hands Around the Clock, by William Messner, ACL, a Ten Best film of 1950, and Maxine's Big Moment, a 1948 Ten Best winner, also by Mr. Messner. L. A. EiqhtS Winners of the annual shortie contest conducted by the Los Angeles 8mm. Club, ACL, were Two Thin Dimes, by Merle Williams, first; March of TV, by Charles Coleman, ACL, second, and You See, It Happened Like This, by Frances Field, third. Judges for this eagerly awaited yearly event were John Shoemaker, from the Burbank Movie Makers, and Jack Lloyd, ACL, and Wendell Weethee, of the Long Beach Cinema Club. Omaha Oscars The Omaha Movie C 1 u b , A C L , awarded its 1952 Oscars to Carroll Swindler, ACL, for Cypress Gardens (16mm.) and to Mrs. Ralph Bremer, ACL, for Benedictine Monastery (8mm.). Runners-up in the 16mm. class were Navahopi Land, by John J. Kretschmar, second ; Minneapolis Aquatennial, by Myron Jacoby, ACL, third, and Under Three Crowns, by Erma Niedermeyer. ACL WTMJ-TV, Milwaukee's television station, interviews Harold Sonneman in support of April gala by Amateur Movie Society of Milwaukee. Lyle McBride, ACL, fourth. And in the 8mm. class there were A Birthday Party, by Richard Orr, second; Two Bums on a Bike, by Ralph Peterson, ACL, third, and Girl Scouts, by Lulu Finch, fourth. Hamilton Officers for 1953 for the Hamilton (Ontario) Amateur Movie Makers, ACL, will be M. Mill, president; G. Robinson, ACL, vicepresident and program chairman; R. Trouten, ACL, secretary; R. Tilbury, ACL, assistant secretary; Mrs. R. Britton, treasurer; W. J. Hill, ACL, contest chairman; W. Mason, membership, and H. Yates, ACL, publicity. Richmond ^he Richmond (Calif.) Movie Camera Club, ACL, recently elected Don Hitchcox, ACL, as their president for the new season. Serving with Mr. Hitchcox will be John Geiger, vicepresident; Mary Sisler and Edna Hunting, ACL, secretaries, and Robert Buckett, ACL,' treasurer. Additions to the club's board of directors were James Viramontes, Arthur Smith, and Richard Sisler. Following the installation of the officers, which was arranged by Eric Unmack of the Westwood Movie Club in San Francisco, members were treated to a program of films by Donovan Smith, ACL, of the Bay Empire 8mm. Movie Club, ACL, also in San Fran Dallas award The Dallas 8mm Club, ACL, presented its Marlow Trophy to Orin Switzer, whose two entries placed first and second in the club's 1952 contest. Presentation was made by Joe Galloway, who has won the award for the past two years. Argentina The Cine Club Argentino, ACL, headquartered in Buenos Aires, held its 10th amateur film contest recently with the following results. In the story classification, Muchos Dias . . . y Muchos Noches, by the Beccaglia brothers, was awarded second prize, no first or third awards being made. Evocation, by Enrique J. Bouchard, won third place in the fantasy class, with no first or second awards. The documentary division had no first award, but Estempas Ibericas, by Cavaldo C. Vacca, won second place, with Ciudad de la Paz, by Eduardo Douglas Di Fiore, ACL, third. This last