Movie Makers (Jun-Dec 1928)

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The Filmo 75 will make for you the sharpest . . . most brilliant motion pictures you ever saw on 16mm. film. Surprisingly efficient. Bass will take your old still or movie in trade. 66 page Catalog free . . . Write. Bass Camera Company 179 W. MADISON STREET CHICAGO, ILL. "Filmo Headquarters for Tourists" 820 club and the advertiser is charged whenever the film is projected. The Rochester group reports that production costs can be kept very low and that by charging five dollars for a screening the club can make a good profit. The merchants have found that the use of film is of real value to them. Eugene Curtis, vice president of the club, will direct the new production, and Frank J. Buehlman will act as cameraman. Other officers of the club chosen at a recent business meeting are: R. Clemons, supervisor; Mrs. F. J. Buehlman, treasurer; Lee White, secretary; W. Cushing, business manager; J. Appleton, publicity, and E. Streb, cameraman. Plan Novelties T 'HE Cinetrix Club, made up of a ■*• small group of amateur cameramen interested in amateur photoplay production, has been formed in New York City during the last month. Moving cameras, split screens, multiple exposures and dissolves will be introduced in their first production, a fantasy, the title of which has not yet been released. The film will run approximately one thousand feet 35mm. and is to be reduced to 16mm. The club's primary purpose is to experiment with motion picture technique and to work out new cinematic devices. Dr. A. L. Walsh is president of the new group. Stewart Hufford, treasurer, and Don Bennett, director. Noted Guest MR. WILLIAM L. FINLEY, author and photographer of wild animal life, addressed the last meeting of the Portland Cine Club in Portland, Oregon, illustrating his talk with film. The projection of "Princeton" completed the program. Psychological DR. H. A. HEISE of Uniontown, Pa., is planning the production of a film study of hysteria. The story will be developed about a girl afflicted with hysteria and the camera will depict her life as she sees it, and at the same time a comparison of the girl's imagined world and the world of actuality will be made. The finished film document will demonstrate one of the most fertile possibilities of the motion picture — its use in representing an emotional process not through mimicry but by presenting it through suggestion and cinematic symbolism. The scenario will be written by Eugenia R. Heise and the finished picture will run approximately four hundred feet 16 mm. "The Soul Thief," Dr. Heise's first production which runs four hundred feet 16 mm., will be available through the Club Film Library. This picture tells an exciting yarn of a mad doctor who by a complicated operation removes the soul of one of his patients with disastrous results. Dr. Heise plays the mad doctor and Minnie Bacher, Ellsworth Caton, Eugenia Heise and Jean MacDowell are in the cast. Stamford Premiere SLIM DOOLITTLE, the Lighthouse Keeper," production of the Cinematograph Committee of the Comedy Club of Stamford, Conn., was presented at a late meeting of the Comedy Club. John Ten Eyck, III, reports that the Cinematograph Committee is making preparations for a second production, an all interior story for which a studio is being equipped. R. C. Montgomery will act as cameraman for the forthcoming film. Fast Work DURING the last month the Southern Movie Makers Triangle has been formed in Summerville, South Carolina, under the leadership of Joseph E. Braid. The new club has already finished its first production, "Dawn of a Sailor's Day," a romantic farce running 400 ft. 16 mm. Some excellent scenes of U. S. Navy Cruisers in action, obtained at Charleston, S. C, were included giving the film an authentic background. Interiors were made on an outdoor stage. The production was directed by Joseph Braid and filmed by George Lanneau, Jr. The cast includes C. H. Smith and Whaley Mackey. Unique Settings THE Amateur Movie Club of Riverside, Calif., is completing carefully laid plans for the club's first production, a comedy drama that will have the scenery in and near Riverside as its background. A wedding scene will be shot in the well known St. Cecilia Chapel of the Mission Inn of Riverside. The production committee has selected director and cameramen who will be named at a later date. The scenario is being written by P. S. Castleman and the production committee has selected M. L. Castleman to direct the production. E. N. Fairchilds is assistant director and L. B. Caldwell is publicity secretary. Several club members will shoot the scenes. "Narrow Paths," production of Markard Pictures, was screened on a recent program of this lively organization. Palisades Producing THE Amateur Motion Picture Club of Palisades has been formed in Grantwood, N. J., with a large and m 1926