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•4 f ©Cl B 449232 ISORY EDITORS T B. GRIFFITH Sunkist Movie Club UR E GIBBS Portland Cine Club J S. DVORAK Suburban Amateur Movie Club TIN P. WALSH St. Louis Amateur Movie Club lA. HOOK Seattle 8mm Club In w. mullison I Amateur Cinema Club of Norristown MERSON CLYMA IDetroit Society of Cinematographers SISSEL Austin Movie Club I HEO. ROTH Sherman Clay Movie Club =| E. SNYDER Des Moines Y. M. C. A. Movie Club ENION SMITH Metro Movie Club of Chicago JTUART BUSSEY Super-Art Movie Club l-IKLIN SKEELE Los Angeles Cinema Club {RGE DURAND 3H Camera Club (Movie Division) M-EMON Boise Camera Club IARD D. ELLIOTT Tacoma Movie Club OSS BROWN Dallas Cinema Club fR BEZEK Chicago Cinema Club GRANZOW Greater Oakland Cinema Club PH H. GAWLER Washington 8mm Movie Club ✓IN SWANSICK Bay Empire 8mm Club |ES GENDERS Indianapolis Movie Club SELL A. DIXON Pittsburgh Amateur Cinema Club jd as Second-Class Matter, May 4, 1938, at pstoffice at Los Angeles, California, under _ the Act of March 3, 1879. liption rates — U. S. $2.00 a year. Canada i year. Foreign $2.50 a year. Single copies l-oreign single copies 35c. Copyright, 1940, Halen Publications. Advertising Rates on Application. Copyright 1940 by Ver Halen Publications. No part of magazine may be reprinted without specific permission. CONTENTS FOR MARCH, 1940 l’VE GOT A PROBLEM 105 THE READER SPEAKS 108 CINE QUIZ 108 BACKYARD MOVIES 110 TITLE troubles By George W. Cushman 112 WATCH YOUR FRAMING FOR BETTER COMPOSITION By Melvin Swansick and Dr. C. E. Smith 115 amateur’s local newsreel makes good By Curtis Randall 116 try these trick shots with your camera. .By E. M. Liebscher 118 table-top movies with hand-made cast of characters By G. P. Krcutzer 120 confessions of a cinebug’s wife By LaNclle Fosholdt 122 “oomph” lighting for small croups. ....... By R. E. Worstel 124 you filmed it — now record it! By Jack Irwin 125 negative-positive developing kit easily built By Walter W. Light 126 SIMPLE METHODS for CENTERING titles. . .By Geo. W. Cushman 127 MOVIE OF THE MONTH J. H. Schoen 128 tell me — how can i improve my film? By The Editors 129 experimental cine workshop 130-131 it’s new to me 132 exposure meter guide 146 DIRECTORY OF AMATEUR CINE CLUBS 150 TITLE BACKGROUNDS .By Edmund Turner 153 MARCH NUMBER 3 VOLUME VII is Shot of the Month — Reproduced from Milton L. Dean's 16mm Kodachrome film, "Alaska." Selected for its excellent composition. OFFICE OF PUBLICATION 6060 Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles, Calif. Phone GRanite 6414 NEW YORK OFFICE Everett Gellert, 62 West 45th Street Vanderbilt 6-5254 CHICAGO OFFICE C. N. Burris, 362 Wrigley Building Whitehall 7784 CHAS. J. Ver HALEN PUBLISHER C. J. Ver HALEN, JR. ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER ARTHUR E. GAVIN EDITOR RAY FERNSTROM TECHNICAL EDITOR GEORGE W. CUSHMAN R. E. MERVILLE J. H. SCHOEN ASSOCIATE EDITORS COUNT H. C. A. von SCHOENFELDT PHOTOGRAPHIC EDITOR C. E. BELL ASSOCIATE PHOTO EDITOR L. C. BUSCHER ART DIRECTOR HOLLYWOOD'S MAGAZINE FOR THE AMATEUR