Movie Makers (Jan-Dec 1953)

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320 'Because of You" by Lucille Lloyd "Candy Capers" by Roy M. Fulmer jr., ACL "Dark Interlude" by William Messner, AACL "Fabulous Florida" by Haven Trecker, AACL "Festival Michigan" * by Cornelius Vanden Broek "Firenze, Queen of the Arts" by Oscar H. Horovitz, FACL "Green River" by Louise M. Fetzner, ACL which the Los Angeles 8mm. Club has fashioned an outstanding club film. Competent in all phases of movie production, from the smart opening titles to the corny romantics at the end, A Switch in Time is a hilarious cine satire of the foibles of big-time advertising. Seldom does a film of this type demonstrate so capably — in story, photography, direction, acting, editing and sound — the combined abilities of a group of enthusiastic movie makers. Caineville In Caineville, Glen H. Turner has now turned his camera on a Western ghost town, and with moments of sheer movie magic, he has brought it to life again. The slow turning by the wind of the leaves of an abandoned school book, and the slow pan to initials carved on a schoolhouse desk, evoke as if he were alive the youngster who carved them. In another scene, done with consummate smoothness, Mr. Turner shows an abandoned street on which a schoolboy, with books over his shoulder, slowly materializes into solid form — and then dissolves again into thin air. Surrounding Caineville always are the brooding mountains and the ever-encroaching river which implacably seeks to destroy the last vestiges of the crumbling village. Caineville is a triumph of imaginative creation over static material. Canadian High Adventure With the recent scaling of Mt. Everest, it is appropriate that a mountain-climbing film should be entered — and should win — in this year's Ten Best contest. Jerry More's Canadian High Adventure is such a picture. Obviously, Mr. More is a competent climber himself, as well as being a good movie maker, for the film presents an amazing variety of camera angles which make one question where the cameraman must have been to take them. For example, some scenes show the climbers crossing a crevasse from underneath, leaving you with the single assumption that [Continued on page 332] "Monarchs of the Mountain Tops" by Ralph O. Lund, ACL "The Deserted Mill" by Irwin Lapointe, ACL 'Where the Sirens Sang' by Helen C. Welsh, AACL