Movie Makers (Jan-Dec 1953)

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TOLEDO CiNE ENGINEERING 1309 Milburn Ave. Toledo 6, Ohio RECORDS MUSIC Background SOUND Last Word in Sound Effects— > Send For Free Catalogue THOMAS J. VALENTINO, Inc. Oept. MM 150 West 46th Street, New York 36, N. Y. KODACHROME DUPLICATES 8mm. or 16mm. 11^ per foo. Mail Orders accepted HOLLYWOOD 16mm INDUSTRIES, INC 1453 N. Vine Street Hollywood 28, Call. mm SHIPPING I CASE Safeguard your Film. Ship in FIBERBILT CASES. 400' to 2000' 16mm. FIBERBILT CASE CO, 40 WEST 17th ST. NEW YORK CITY Old timers' night: It was intermission time, and we were sitting there quietly in a rear row of a routine meeting of the Metropolitan Motion Picture Club, ACL, here in New York City, when we felt the tap on our shoulder. Looking up, we saw before us Charles J. Carbonaro, FACL, not a whit changed since the time fifteen years ago when he won his first ACL Ten Best with Little Sherlock and was an active member of the MMPC. Well ... we had scarcely gotten over greeting Charlie when we were both greeted by a third party — fellow by the name of Kenneth F. Space. Ken took his first Ten Best way back in 1934 with Not One Word (still one of the best-liked films in ACL's Club Library), later joined the League's staff as Technical Consultant and then moved on during the war to make training films for International Business Machines, at Binghamton, N. Y. Still there, too. WHICH reminds us to tell you that Charlie Carbonaro, since his New York days, has been movie making for the United States Coast & Geodetic Survey, working out of such diverse bases as Cambridge, Mass., Washington, D.C., and Norfolk, Va. Only recently, after two years of production time and 15,000 miles of travel, he completed almost single-handed a documentary study of that service. And the production is a triumph. For packed into its 700 feet of 16mm. sound on Kodachrome is a concise but eminently complete picture of the entire USCGS. Might be a good study for those amateur producers who tend to over-foot their films. Matter of fact, the picture — called simply U. S. Coast & Geodetic Survey — is available on free loan at your nearest CGS area office. Also more or less out of the past comes a communique from Dr. James E. Bliss, ACL, announcing that he is again deserting his dental profession and setting up in the picture business. Time was — oh, say, ten or fifteen years ago — when Dr. B., then an instructor in dentistry at Western Reserve University, organized from scratch that college's highly successful Cinema Lab A. T. BARTLETT, AACL, and Mrs. Bartlett pose proudly in their home at Brisbane, Australia, alongside trophies which he has won in ama teur film competition. ACL's certificate of 1952 Ten Best award for Give Us This Day is in the frame at left of table. oratory. There came then the war, and after it Dr. Bliss found himself in Fillmore, Calif., again with a dentist's drill in his hand. As of right now, however, he finds his Pathe Super 16 camera more attractive to the touch — and he plans to build his movie business around it. Not to dwell too much in the past, we can now reveal that seven days were set aside here recently as Alf Bartlett Week. They were in tribute to Alfred T. Bartlett, AACL, one of the League's newly named Associates and now a perapetic ambassador of good will from Australia's amateur movie makers. They were, frankly, seven days which shook the New York cine world. For Mr. B., both personally and pictorially, is a genuine major leaguer (there's that World Series influence still cropping up!). Screened at a special meeting of the Metropolitan Motion Picture Club, his Enchanted Isles on the one hand, and his Give Us This Day on the other, both won enthusiastic and argumentative supporters; but all here did manage to agree that Australia is a movie maker's mecca. By now on his leisurely business-withpleasure trip around the world, this sort of enthusiasm may be getting just a bit old hat to Mr. Bartlett — though, knowing him, we doubt it. For already he has behind him triumphant cine visits at the Cannes (France) Amateur Film Festival, the UNICA Congress at Brussels, Belgium, and at countless distinguished gatherings in London and thereabouts. Matter of fact, if both he and Queen Elizabeth II had not been so busy at one and the same time, his films might well have enjoyed a command screening at Balmoral Castle. Both Philip and Elizabeth are fellow hobbyists, you know. Across the threshhold: In no significant order, it gives us pleasure to report visits at ACL headquarters from Simon Perle, ACL, who, at his home in Haifa, is the League's only member in all of Israel; from Fulvio Borghetty, ACL, of Turin, Italy, who brought us warm greetings from the Cine-Club Piemonte, ACL. of that city. Camera-Craft, Brisbane