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DECEMBER 1953
HANDS ACROSS THE SEAS
NOW in its seventeenth year, the Hiram Percy Maxim Memorial Award goes this year for the first time to a movie maker outside of the North American continent.
This is, of course, pure happenstance. The Award, established in 1937 by the children of the League's Founder President, went in only its second year to an American amateur — Ralph E. Gray, FACL — then resident in the Republic of Mexico. In 1939 it traveled northward to Ottawa, where a Canadian husband-and-wife filming team — F. Radford and Judith Crawley — won it with an engaging genre study of French-Canadian life. And then in 1946 it went once again to Mr. Gray, still resident in Mexico. Now, for the year 195 3, the Maxim Memorial Award journeys far overseas to an Australian movie maker, Keith F. Hall, a resident of Brisbane in the State of Queensland.
Here at headquarters we are pleased and proud at the truly international character of this occurrence. Throughout its twenty-four year history, the League's
Ten Best competition — as is forthrightly stated in our official rules — has been "open to amateur filmers everywhere in the world." Nor has it been limited, as Mr. Hall's honor so eloquently testifies, to members of the Amateur Cinema League.
This is as it should be, in a world where far too many other human activities are unduly cribbed and cabined. It is also, we feel sure, as Hiram Percy Maxim would have had it be. For in his initial editorial, published on these pages in December, 1926, Mr. Maxim wrote in part:
"Instead of amateur cinematography being merely a means of individual amusement, we have in it a new means of communication — visual communication — with all of our fellow beings, be where they may upon the earth's surface."
Thus spoke the man in whose memory the Maxim Award trophy now journeys halfway around that earth's surface. We here profoundly believe that this truly international Memorial brings together the hands and hearts of men of good will the world around.
The AMATEUR CINEMA LEAGUE, Inc.
Founded in 1926 by Hiram Percy Maxim
DIRECTORS Joseph J. Harley, President Frank E. Gunnell, Vicepresident
Walter Bergmann, Treasurer Arthur H. Elliott Fred Evans Harry Groedel
James W. Moore, Managing Director John V. Hansen Harrison F. Houghton Roy C. Wilcox
AMATEUR CINEMA LEAGUE. INC..
The Amateur Cinema League, Inc., sole owner and publisher of MOVIE MAKERS, is an international organization of filmers. The League offers its members help in planning and making movies. It aids movie clubs and maintains for them a film exchange. It ha* various special services and publications for members. Your membership is invited. Eight dollars a year.
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