Movie Makers (Jan-Dec 1953)

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286 NOVEMBER 1953 GEO. W. COLBURN LABORATORY /64 NORTH WACKER DRIVE-CHICAGO 6 TELEPHONE STATE 2-7316 8 and 16mm SERVICES Delight family and friends — earn big money as expert movie or still photographer. Famous low-cost NTI HOME STUDY COURSE assures success, trains you quickly, easily in spare time. BIG FREE BOOK gives details. Also resident training. 44th Year. WRITE TODAY! G.I. Approved. New York Institute of Photography Dept. 105, TO W. 33 St., New York 1 , N.Y. HOW TO MAKE MOVIE TITLES IN COLOR! Write today for a FREE A-to-Z Sample Title Teit Kit. Make titles lhat are different . . . better and tailored to your taste. Trv our method . . . FREE. COMPLETE COLOR OR B.&W. OUTFIT $6.50 A-to-Z MOVIE ACCESSORIES 175 Fifth Avenue Dent. M New York 10. N. Y. Dress up your films with an ACL COLOR LEADER 8mm. $1.50 16mm. $2.00 Amateur Cinema League, Inc. 420 Lexington Ave., New York 17, N. Y. PELLEGRINI VARIABLE SHUTTER UNITS FOR BOLEX H-16 The real answer to complete FADFS and LAP DISSOLVES. Faster shutter speeds and many other adva itages. Prices within U. S. $99.60. Cameras with outside frame counter $109.80. Tax extra. One year guarantee and camera transportation back included. Send for free informative booklet. Prices subject to change without notice. TULLIO PELLEGRINI 1545 Lombard St. San Francisco 23, California CloseupS-What filmers are doing It's not official, but LeRoy Segall, ACL, of Milwaukee, thinks that he is the first amateur in that city to give a large-scale public screening of his own movies with magnetic sound on film. In any case, it is clearly on the record that on a sweltering night this last summer Mr. Segall, abetted socially by his wife Stella, lured 263 invited guests into the Venetian Room of the city's Hotel Astor. Served up to these guests — besides cake and ice cream during the intermission — were Mr. S's 1952 cine studies of Denmark, Finland and Norway (part I of the program), followed by an hour's worth of his Helsinki Olympic Games coverage. Editing, and later recording, this mass of footage was of course a big job — as the lapse of time between shooting and showing will indicate. But Mr. Segall was amply aided in this project by John Bakke, jr., to whom he accords grateful credit. Two films which placed among ACL's selection of the Ten Best for 1952 received further honors this summer at the sixth annual Festival International du Film Amateur, in Cannes, France. These were Outsmarted Smarties, by George Valentine, of Glenbrook, Conn., which was awarded a bronze medal attesting its public presentation, and Muntre Streker, by Mathis Kverne, of Oslo, Norway, which took first place in its animated films class and second place in the overall Grand Prix of French Cinematography. Mr. Valentine's production, on 8mm. stock, was accorded one further distinction: via a specially designed 8mm. arc projector, it was shown to a 1600-seat capacity audience on a screen 25 feet wide for a magnification of 2.600,000x. yv ell, it's No. 7 now for Delores and Timothy Lawler, AACL, of Kenosha, Wise, with the birth on September 28 of Eileen Kay, who bowed in at 6 pounds and 14 ounces. What with her sister Bridget (No. 6), Duck Soup, the Lawler's 1952, five-child Maxim Award winner is getting as out of date as old 2-D movies in Hollywood. I here are 650 miles of waterfront in the great deep-water harbor which is the Port of New York — or, more technically, the Port of New York-New Jersey. To and from this foreshore there come annually 10,000 vessels, flying from their mastheads more than 170 bright house flags and carrying in their bottoms 200,000,000 tons of the world's commerce. These and other facts we learned recently at a preview screening of Via Port of New York, a compact, fast mov ing, 27 minute 16mm. sound and color film just released by the Port of New York Authority, ACL. The Princeton Film Center (the credits say) were the producers, and J. Clark McGuire served as supervisor of production for the Authority. But from where we sit the film really stems from a couple of able amateurs. For the script, a beautifully integrated job, was written by Oeveste Granducci, a former 8mm. member of ACL and the Washington Society of Cinematographers, ACL, while the entire production was directed by Henwar Rodakiewicz, also a former ACL'er and the Ten Best producer in 1932 of Portrait of a Young Man. If you want to see what these two ex-amateurs have done with about a thousand feet of Kodachrome, address your booking request (for group screenings only) to Trade Promotion Manager, Port of New York Authority, 111 Eighth Avenue, New York 11, N. Y. There will be no charge for the film other than shipping costs. Across the Threshold: In from six weeks of Europe and en route to his home in Lincoln, Neb., Edmund G. Dittmer, ACL, enriched and enlivened a recent morning for all of us with a visit to headquarters. In the "enlivening" phase he was quite ably abetted by his young, three and one-half year son Richard, who, jaunty in a plumed Tyrolean hat, charmed the hearts of our girls with his blue-eyed chatter — while we discussed more weighty matters with Mr. D. Also recent and welcome visitors were Charles J. Ross, ACL, of Los Angeles, who took lunch with Joseph J. Harley, FACL, the League's president; Lewis J. Hamson, ACL, of Brigham, Utah, on for a visit with his brother in Darien, Conn., and Ralph Luce, of San Francisco. The latter, you may remember, was co-producer with Leonard Tregillus, FACL, of No Credit and Proem, outstanding experimental films of animated clay figures. Mr. L. is now a partner in Pearson & Luce, where they specialize in sound and films for television and industry. Earlier, Betty and Tom Butler, ACL, were in from Cincinnati. For the latter, as is our wont at the drop of a decibel, we ran off some magnetic test recordings on the projector. These the couple regarded with attentive but seemingly unimpressed ears, and then, on departure, left us their business card. On it, in the center space, were the words Butler Custom Recordings. Below, in one corner, the card read: Betty Butler, Radio and TV ; while in the other stood: Tom Butler, Recording Engineer.