Movie Makers (Jan-Dec 1953)

MOVIE MAKERS L47 CloseiipS— What filmers are doing Two out of Three: Another welcome visitor to League Hq. has been William S. Bixler, ACL, of Lancaster, Pa. Mr. B. was just back — and brought with him the footage to prove it — from a five-port West Indies cruise on the Ocean Monarch, a Furness Line vessel on which he also traveled only two years ago. One more trip, he figures, and he ought to own at least his favorite cabin. Dicky Roth, ACL, who pours out her heart with her customary fervor in Notes From Magnetic Notebooks: 3, is a person of many moods. However, among the more rare emotions in her portfolio of passion is that of humility: Mrs. R., as you will soon sense from her article, is rarely stumped and simply never stopped. Her indomitable drive even translates itself, as the saying goes, into the Scandinavian, causing an Oslo, Norway, newspaper to declare recently: "She is an atom bomb of energy. What nobody else can do, she does!" Thus, it was with a warm, rewarding sense of the improbable that we found leading off her original manuscript a metrical confession of frustration. Not feeling that Movie Makers article pages were quite the place for "poetry," we bring her verse to you in these more informal columns. This piece is writ for fools like me, Bewildered by terminology. Your supersonics, electronics, Your AM, FM, wows, atomics; Your bloops and flutters, drags and sputters, Equalize, sync, high fidelity! Such words are baffling mystery To simple critters such as me. Eduardo Douglas di Fiore, ACL, who from his home in Buenos Aires, Argentina, was up here last year for an extended tour of North America, is now giving his native South America the same full treatment. With more than 200 kilograms of equipment (that's about 450 pounds), he will travel by ship, train, plane and car over 15,000 kilometers (9,375 miles) in three months as he covers eleven different countries in the Southern Hemi ■■\3b5mb C/'^ 'jS;*-' li^5 EDUARDO DI FIORE, ACL, on the roof of his specially equipped station wagon, trains his Filmo 70-DL's telephoto on a far Andean peak. sphere. Apex of this odyssey will be a crossing of the Andes Mountains, from Santiago de Chile, on the Pacific side, via Mendoza (which nestles breathlessly at 23,000 feet) and Cordoba back to his home in Buenos Aires. Vaya con Dios, amigo mio! Another peripatetic photographer has been Fiorz A. Sarkar, ACL, of Bombay, India, who recently journeyed (via the Pacific) all the way to Los Angeles to enroll in some movie making courses at a Southern California university which, for reasons you will immediately understand, had better remain nameless. Trouble was that when Mr. Sarkar arrived in L.A. he got into discussions with a number of Hollywood cameramen and directors. They soon advised him, with a candor reputedly rare in the cinema city, that he already seemed to know more about movie making than was taught in the courses. So-o-o, there seemed nothing left for Mr. S. to do but keep right on bearing eastward until, in due course, he arrived back in India. Which, with a stopover at ACL headquarters, is exactly what he is doing. However, he says, while on the West Coast he had fine, friendly visits with (among others) A. Theo Roth, ACL, of the Golden Gate Cinematographers, ACL, in San Francisco, and with Fred Evans, FACL, and Barry W. Dance, ACL, of the Los Angeles 8mm. Club, ACL. Pretty nearly worth the trip, he thinks, to experience this heart-warming fraternity of ACL membership. Across the Threshold: Then, in from Australia, where he is a member of the Queensland Amateur Cine Society, in Brisbane, there has come Eric W. Noad, ACL, on a trip (eastbound) through the United States. Homeward-bound, he will journey westward across Canada, down to San Francisco, and back to the Antipodes. Footloose Filmers: Frank E. Gunnell, FACL, who gave you It's Maine for Movies in July MM, postcards us from Southwest Harbor in that state: "Stormy weather (not mentioned in the article) is slowing down our picture taking!" Haven Trecker, AACL, is back in Kankakee, 111., after a four-week car and camera tour of the State of Florida. "My next vacation will be without cameras," he declares. A fine attitude for a brand-new Associate of ACL! Fred C. Ells, FACL, and Mrs. Ells are back at trailering, from their home base in Pacific Palisades, Calif., and when last heard from were in Yosemite National Park. Safeguard your Film. Ship in FIBERBILT CASES. 400' lo 2000' 16mm. FIBERBILT CASE CO. 40 WEST 17th ST. NEW YORK CITY KODACHROME DUPLICATES Emm. or 16mm. 11' per foot Mail Orders accepted HOLLYWOOD 16mm INDUSTRIES, INC. 1453 N. 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