Movie Makers (Jan-Dec 1953)

332 DECEMBER 1953 Rose, ASC, and a standard reference manual on all phases of movie making, is now in its eighth edition. $5 at your dealer's, or direct from American Cinematographer Handbook, 458 South Doheny Drive, Beverly Hills, Calif. Catalogs T. J. Valentino. Inc., 120 West 46th Street, New York 36, announces his 1954 catalog of Major sound effect and mood music records . . . Audio-Master Corporation. 17 East 45th Street, New York 17, has a new catalog of their electronic equipment ... A catalog of the BG library of mood and bridge music may be had from the same company. Bo I ex B-8 Halfway between the one-lens L-8 and the three-lens H-8 cameras is the Bolex B-8, soon to be on the market with a two-lens turret. Other featuers of this small-sized, 8mm. roll film camera are an audible end-of-film click indicator, seven speeds from 8 to 64 frames per second, and a multi-focal viewfmder. The B-8, which will be widely available in 1954, will range in price from $140 to $200, depending on the lenses it carries. E.K. items The 4X Kodaslide Table Viewer and its carrying case have been reduced in prices from $49.50 to $37.50. $15.50 to $9.75, respectively . . . Kodachrome prints in a new 3 by 3% inch size may now be ordered from 23 by 24 or 24 by 24mm. stereo transparencies ... An 8 page booklet, Popular Home Movie Stories, Birthdays, Holidays and Weddings, is yours for the asking from the Sales Service Division. Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester 4, N. Y. AnsCO Wants pix Ansco is interested in buying black and white photographs and color transparencies for use in its advertising. Pictures featuring people, especially young people, are most desirable, and as a guide to photographers the company suggests that the pictures have action, human interest and strong poster value. Such subjects as children with animals, a parent with a baby, teen-age capers, sports and the like are best suited for the company's type of advertisements. Negative size for the b/w shots should be 2X,4 by 2% inches or larger; color transparencies should be no smaller than the 214 size. All pictures must be made on Ansco film and should be sent to the Advertising Department, Ansco, Binghamton, N. Y. Exakta Annual Exakta, the magazine for Exakta photographers, has announced the preparation of an Exakta Annual, to be published first next year and annually BOLEX B-8, new 8mm. spool camera from Paillard Products, will mount two lenses and be ready for distribution early in the new year. thereafter. For reproduction in this volume, the publishers seek to buy black and white or color photographs taken with any model of this camera. They also are interested in articles and illustrations on how the Exakta has been used in varied fields of photography. All submissions should be addressed to George Berkowitz, editor, 25 Jones Street, New York 14, N. Y. New EK mike A new Kodak microphone, Model PA-4, has been announced by the Eastman Kodak Company for use with its 15 watt Kodascope Pageant sound projector models AV-151, AV-151-E, AV-151S and AV-151-SE. The mike, which can be used with other AC-only sound projectors, is styled in a satin-chrome, rectangular cast-metal case. It comes complete with a shielded 7^2 foot cable terminated in an Amphenol 75-MCIF connector. The PA-4, which is generally directional, will be priced at $10.15. Artist Renoir, a new 23 minute, 16mm. color film which traces the artistic growth of the French Impressionist Pierre-Auguste Renoir, has been acquired for exclusive distribution by Contemporary Films, Inc., 13 East 37th Street, New York 16, N. Y. The picture uses fifty of the painter's finest canvasses in analyzing his stylistic developments. The narration, delivered by George Ives and written by Otto Radl, the producer, Justin Hine and Jerry Winters, complements the camera's studies. Renior is offered on rental at $20 from Contemporary Films. News from Castle The fifteenth consecutive news round-up by Castle Films is now on your dealer's shelves following its November release. Events slated for inclusion in Castle's coverage for 1953 are such lead stories as the truce in Korea, revolt in Iran, food riots in East Berlin, the death of Stalin, the coronation of Elizabeth II and the earthquake in Greece. The Ten Best [Continued from page 320] the cameraman climbed down into the crevasse to shoot them. Excellent photography, competent editing and a friendly, well-written narrative all combine to make Canadian High Adventure an outstanding mountain-climbing study. Concerto Concerto, by Warren Doremus, is a sensitive and touching story of young love, following a couple from the joy of their graduation and marriage to the anguish and pain of the man's recall to war service in Korea. The telling of this simple tale has been done with such warmth that the observer cannot help being caught up in the current of emotions which fill the film. The performances of Sallie Dunn and George Harrison as the young couple convey the right mood for each scene with complete sincerity and heart, while Mr. Doremus's direction is forceful and yet restrained. Accompanied by and an interpretation of the Warsaw Concerto of Richard Addinsell, Concerto, the film, may truly be styled a cine tone poem. March of TV We had thought satire, especially in films, was a lamented art of the past. Thus it is a pleasure to report that it is back again with a vengeance in March of TV. Following both the visual and narrative patterns originated by the now-familiar March of Time series, Charles E. Coleman has created an uproarious satire on television and the inroads it has made into the American home. Both subtle and devastating by turns, the film leaves no aspect of this electronic marvel unscathed. On the technical side, all departments have been capably handled, with the crisp direction and portentous narration being, perhaps, the most notable. The acting is assured and natural, remaining always within the farcical framework of the satire. Whether you like, dislike or simply ignore the subject which this shortie so sparklingly derides, March of TV is unreservedly guaranteed to keep you in stitches. Rochester Race Lovers of boats and devotees of movie making alike will probably never see enough of Rochester Race, produced by Walter F. Chappelle jr. in the summer of 1952. For this picture is one of the most complete and authentic records of big-league yacht racing that has been produced to date. For big league indeed was the 72 foot yawl Escapade, owned by Wendell Anderson of the Detroit Yacht Club and sailing as scratch boat in the