Amateur Movie Makers (Dec 1926-Dec 1927)

Why Not Study Your Hobby / AMATEUR MOVIE MAKERS presents for sale: MOTION PICTURE PHOTOGRAPHY FOR THE AMATEUR by Herbert C. McKay $2.50 MOTION PICTURE PHOTOGRAPHY by Carl L. Gregory $6.00 MOTION PICTURE PROJECTION by T. O'Conor Sloane $5.00 SCREEN ACTING by Inez and Helen Klumph . $3 .00 PHOTOPLAY WRITING by William Lord Wright. .. $3.00 MOTION PICTURE DIRECTING by Peter Milne $3.00 Send your order accompanied by the price of the books you desire to AMATEUR MOVIE MAKERS 267 West 17th Street New York City We deliver them to your address postpaid. MEN WANTED To Learn Motion Picture Operating Earn $2,000 to $4,000. Quickly learned. Short hours. Big pay. Best equipped School in Michigan. Projectionists for movie houses and road shows. CLASSES FOR AMATEUR MOVIES Movie Operators School 61 Sproat Street Detroit, Mich. Smugglers Allen Parker Sydney Gould Leonora's motto was "Save the surface and you save all !" Madge had a skin you love to touch because her heart was near the surface. Leila believed the good die young so she aimed to reach a hundred. ' I 'HE following continuity may * be interesting to other amateurs. It shows what can be done with myriad subjects which may have been filmed and can be cut in. Scene — Chaperon of flappers talking with her cousin — older man — about bachelors whom chaperon is to meet. Title — Bachelors? Are they thrilling ? Scene — Same as last. Title — You bet. — Elwood is a reporter. Always jumping off burning roofs or being pulled out of the ocean. Scene — Cut in fire scene taken in Philadelphia last spring. Engines on way to fire — building in flames. Cut in life guards and rescue at Atlantic City taken at Atlantic City on summer vacation. Scene — Chaperon and Cousin talking. Title — Russ is an athlete. Played football at college. Scene — Cut in Yale — West Point football game this fall. Long shot of Inside Yale Bowl. Shot of teams coming on field. Shot of kick off. Shot of one Play. Title) — And Don. He figured in the Evelyn Arden divorce case last winter. Scene — Cut in of extra strips of film from short production taken by same cast last winter in which Evelyn Arden was leading lady. All of the following action is supposed to be on a river in Maine. Scene — Long shot of falls on Naugatuck River at Seymour, Conn, cut out identifying scenery. Scene — Close-up of falls and surface of water above. Scene — Close-up of Elwood (bachelor) and Linda (flapper) in canoe on small pond in Cheshire, Conn, but apparently on surface of river near falls. Scene — Another close-up of falls and rocks below. Scene — Bachelor tries to kiss flapper to settle bet with other bachelors — Canoe upsets — struggle in water. Scene — Close-up crest of falls. Scene — Bachelor and flapper swimming for shore apparently just missing going over falls. Scene — Bachelor building fire and hanging up part of his clothes to dry. Flapper back of bushes throws over shoes and some other articles of clothing for bachelor to hang up. Bachelor steps one side to take off high hunting boots. Stop camera and fill boots with water. Start camera — continue action and dump about gallon of water out of boot. Scene — Close-up of fire — stick over fire has broken — clothes apparently fallen in fire and burning — damp burlap bags substituted to make smoke. Scene — Shot of fire (about 20 feet distant). Bachelor rushes up — dressed in flannel shirt and boots — tries to beat out fire with stick — holds up charred remains — calls to flapper — Flapper appears in silk garments and skirt of pine tree boughs. THEY TELL THE STORY (Continued from page 21) Cal. ; R. A. Gillman of Dallas, Texas ; Thomas Roberts of Eastman Kodak Stores, Inc., New York; Dr. Frederick M. Law, New York; J. C. Van Horn, Philadelphia, Pa.; H. B. Tobias, Stonehurst, Pa. ; Theodore F. Smith, Pittsburgh, Pa. ; Ray M. Hart, Sterling, 111.; Raymond W. Stephens, Los Angeles, Cal.; J. F. Metten of Philadelphia, Pa.; Walter S. Rogers of New Rochelle, N. Y. ; Z. V. Rogers of Pittsburgh, Pa., and P. W. A. Fitzsimmons of Detroit, Mich. Thirty-two