Amateur Movie Makers (Dec 1926-Dec 1927)

reached, virtually every passenger was a confirmed home movie enthusiast. The venture was so successful from the standpoint of service to the amateur that similar service may be established on important cruise ships in the not far-distant future. "To See Ourselves . . ." THE amateur motion picture camera and projector are being used by summer resort hotels, and from all reports, are extremely successful. Mr. E. S. Burtis, a dealer in photographic supplies of Stamford, New York, writes to the League and says that the management of the Grand Hotel makes pictures of its guests disporting themselves in their various vacation activities, and then at night, much to their great delight, they see themselves on the screen. The pictures never fail to arouse great interest, and the idea is one that will, no doubt, be adopted by many other hotels in the near future. Surely, on rainy days, when time hangs heavily on one's hands, the motion picture projector will be welcomed by many who do not indulge in the usual "rainy day" sports. In addition to the films made by the hotels, there are the many libraries which can be drawn upon for material, a great variety of subjects being obtainable. In Canada, the palatial hotels of the Canadian National Railway are equipped with cine outfits and the evening shows are well attended. A few years from now, there will probably be but few hotels without motion picture equipment. Pathex Film Wanted MR. ARNOLD OLSON, Clay Center, Kans., R. R. 5, would like to hear from users of Pathex equipment for the purpose of exchanging films with them. production for the theatre screen, ruled inevitably by the great common denominator of mass tastes, it is likely to grow into an empowerment of intelligent minorities. And it is only when such commercial development shall liberate the motion picture from the present necessity of trying to please all of the people all of the time with every product, that we can hope for consistent, self-supporting, films addressed to the mind rather than the emotions. "The theatre obviously must appeal to the millions and please a thousand or two at a time. But the Cinegraph, like a magazine or a book of limited appeal, can serve its audience in units of the individual. "To me the Cinegraph idea is almost as strikingly important as though we had just discovered that the printing press need not restrict its output to tabloid newspapers and dime novels." Photograph By Pathex, Inc. WILLIAM HODGE SHOWS MOVIES FROM HOME IN HIS DRESSING ROOM Tribute THE Eastman Kodak Company's recently instituted cinegraph film subjects received the praise of Terry Ramsaye, author of the History of the Motion Picture, in a recent letter to George Eastman. Mr. Ramsaye wrote : "I am much interested in the significant possibilities that may grow out of your newly announced Kodak Cinegraph service. "While it necessarily tends to borrow now from existing and current Swaps Miscellaneous: "Wedding." 1 reel — 400 feet — 16 mm. "Scenes at Hotchkiss." 1 reel 400 feet— 16 mm. "Home and Family Scenes." 1 reel -400 feet— 16 mm. Name: Lars Hedstrom Address: "4 Winds Farm," Williamsville, N. Y. "Lindberg's New York Reception." 1 reel — 100 feet — 16 mm. "Miscellaneous. Mostly Practice Shots." 1 reel— 380 feet— 16 mm. Name: W. Melvin Crook Address: 505 Grove St., Upper Montclair, N. J. Photograph by International J^cws Reel Thirty-one