Movie Makers (Jan-Dec 1953)

MOVIE MAKERS Harold C. Ramsey Studios 249 GEORGE BROTHERTON, right, president, Cinema 16 Club, ACL, in Omaha, gives Ronald Pierce top contest award, as Valfrid Walters, ACL, center, and Carroll Swindler, ACL, watch. during the coming summer months. Among the films sent were In Fancy Free, the 1951 Maxim Award winner, by Glen H. Turner, AACL; The Gannets, the 1950 Maxim Award winner, by Warren A. Levett, ACL; Menemsha, Ten Best 1949, by Jose Pavon ; Kaleidoscopio, Ten Best 1946, by Roberto Machado; Baie St. Paul, Ten Best 1944, by Frank E. Gunnell, FACL; and Riches from the Sea, Ten Best 1938, by the late T. J. Courtney. Following the New Zealand screenings, the program will journey southward where the Federation of Australian Amateur Cine Clubs will distribute the package to its member clubs. New dubs Recent additions to the growing roster of ACL clubs throughout the world are the Packard Camera Club, ACL, formed by and for members of the Packard-General Motors staff at Warren, Ohio, and the Amateurfilmklub Solothurn, in Solothurn, Switzerland. Welcome, one and all! New L.A. club ^he newest club to be organized in the busy Los Angeles area is the Crenshaw Amateur Movie Makers. Officers for the current year are Edwin Fairchild, president; Larn R. Crosthwaite, ACL, first vicepresident ; Ernest A. Lippmann, second vicepresident; Frances Field, secretary, and William H. ERIC UNMACK, president of the Westwood Movie Club, in San Francisco, congratulates Bernice Jackson as top winner in club's 1953 contest. Woolston, ACL, treasurer. Leslie M. Williams. ACL, was appointed as the club representative to the Southern California Association of Amateur Movie Clubs, of which the Crenshaw group is a member. Meetings are held on the second Friday of each month, with a dinner meeting every other month. Further information may be had from Mr. Fairchild, at 4937 Angeles Vista Boulevard, Lo< Angeles 43, Calif. San Jose Salon The tenth annual salon of the San Jose (Calif.) Movie Club, ACL, will be held this year on September 11 and 12 in the auditorium of the new San Jose State College Engineering building. For details, write to the salon chairman, Leslie R. Olsen, ACL, 15950 Alum Rock Avenue, San Jose, Calif. L.A. Eights During August, members of the Los Angeles 8mm. Club, ACL, gathered their families together and headed for a delightful picnic supper at Fern Dell in Griffith Park. Besides a staggering quantity of good food, good drink and good cheer, family movies were the order of the day. October 12 is the date set for the club's Big Party, with the main event being the annual interclub contest with the Southwest 8mm. Club, ACL. Results of this competition, now in its third year, will be published here as soon as they are known. Chile New officers for the Foto Cine Club de Chile, which has its headquarters in Santiago, are Antonio Marti, president; Carlos Feuereisen, vicepresident; Raul Illanes, secretary; Edmundo Munoz, treasurer, and Jaime Camiruaga, Humberto Correa, Raul Espina, Miguel Gutierrez, Juan Enrique Lira, Luis Lopez, Marjan Suchestow and Fernando Wilson, directors. Staging the big show [Continued from page 237] winner, to which we have been building. Also important is the picture screened just before intermission, because the audience will have time to sit around and discuss it. And so we try to have a light comedy, or a picture which packs a real punch, in that position. With our key films set correctly, we assign the remaining pictures to places in the program dictated by their running time and subject matter — and these considerations are different in each year's decisions. TWO OF EVERYTHING Meanwhile, members of our projection and sound committees are busy working out the myriad problems in HURRY, HURRY, HURRY! For those clubs for ACL members) who have not yet screened The Top of the Ten Rest, the League's all-magnetic feature film program, single booking dates are available in each of the weeks listed herewith: DECEMBER 14 DECEMBER 28 JANUARY 4 FEBRUARY 1 FEBRUARY 8 FEBRUARY 22 These dates are for the senior TTB, running 90 minutes and presenting six pictures. Bookings for the junior TTB— running 45 minutes and featuring the Maxim Award winner — are generally open. Remember, ACL can aid you in securing on loan a Bell & Howell 202 magnetic projector, if you need it. Classified adve rt isi n g 10 Cents a Word Minimum Charge $2 ■ Words in capitals, except first word and name, 5 cents extra. ■ Cash required with order. The closing date for the receipt of copy is the tenth of the month preceding issue. EQUIPMENT FOR SALE ■ BASS . . Chicago. 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