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AUG -5 1340
\DVISORY EDITORS
>RGE BURNWOOD
The 8-16 Movie Club, Phila., Pa.
AMES BIALSON
Amateur Motion Picture Club of St. Louis
AUL SNYDER
Norfolk Amateur Movie Club
Minneapolis Cine Club
CISSE A. PELLETIER
Toronto Amateur Movie Club
NESTELL
Cinemon Club
MJDE W. A. CADARETTE
Los Angeles 8mm Club
:RED F. KAUFMAN
Indianapolis Am. Movie Club
RIL DVORAK
Suburban Amateur Movie Club
O. ROUNTREE
Bay Empire 8mm Movie Club
ERT B. GRIFFITH
THUR E. GIBBS
Y A. HOOK
Sunkist Movie Cljub
Portland Cine Club
Seattle 8mm Club
EMERSON CLYMA
Detroit Society of Cinematographers
F. SISSEL
Austin Movie Club
THEO. ROTH
Sherman Clay Movie Club
D E. SNYDER
Des Moines Y. M. C. A. Movie Club
\c. ENION SMITH
( Metro Movie. Club of Chicago
]dOSS BROWN
$ Dallas Cinema Club
^4r BEZEK
Chicago Cinema Club
ISSELL A. DIXON
Pittsburgh Amateur Cinema Club
cred as Second-Class Matter, May t, 1938, at Pottoffice at Los Angeles, California, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
scription rates— U. S., $2.00 a year. Canada, l a year. Foreign, $3.00 a year. Single copies, ) Foreign single copies, 35c. Copyright, 1940, Ver Halen Publications. Advertising Rates on Application.
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MOVIE!
Copyright 1940 by Ver Halen Publications. No part of magazine may be reprinted without specific permission.
CONTENTS FOR AUGUST, 1940
RAY MERVILLE IN MEMORIAM 362
THE READER SPEAKS 364
WITH THE pro-16’s 366
PERSPECTIVE AND BALANCE CHIEF FACTORS IN GOOD COMPOSITION
By Count II. C. A. Von Schoenfeldt, A.R.P.S. 369 club’s CINEMATOGRAPHY COLIRSE IMPROVES members’
technique By Dr. A. K. Baumgardner 370
CHICAGO CINEFAN’s HOME THEATRE TOPS THEM ALL !
By IV. F. Scranton 372
RUNNING GAGS AND TIE-IN SHOTS MAKE VACATION FILMS
complete By Ray Fernstrom 374
VARY CAMERA SPEED FOR TRICKS, SMOOTHER ACTION
By Stanley E. Andrews 376 title composition SIMPLE AS A, B, c !. . . .By George W. Cushman 377
TITLE CENTERING GUIDES FOR FILMOS 378
HOMEMADE GADGETS FOR FILMING LINDER WATER
By S. J . Williams 379
let’s GET ACQUAINTED WITH OUR CAMERA LENS !
By R. S. MacCollister 380
PLANS AND DATA FOR BUILDING THE “GLORIFIED 16”
By A rthur H. H art 38 1
SKI PICTURE MOVIE OF THE MONTH By J . H . Schoen 382
TELL ME — HOW can I improve my film?. .Reviews by the Editors 383 EXPERIMENTAL CINE WORKSHOP 384
it’s new to me ! 386
EXPOSURE METER GUIDE 391
TITLE BACKGROUNDS 399
★ Shot of the Month — A nice study in composition by Walter P. Downs, Montreal, Canada.
CHAS. J. Ver HALEN
PUBLISHER
C. J. Ver HALEN, JR.
ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER
ARTHUR E. GAVIN
EDITOR
OFFICE OF PUBLICATION 6060 Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles, Calif. Phone GRanite 5149
NEW YORK OFFICE Everett Gellert, 62 West 45th Street Vanderbilt 6-5254
CHICAGO OFFICE C. N. Burris, 712 Wrigley Building Whitehall 7784
Shot of the Month . .
AUGUST
NUMBER 8 VOLUME VII
4H
RAY FERNSTROM
Technical Editor
GEORGE W. CUSHMAN
J. H. SCHOEN
Associate Editors
COUNT H. von SCHOENFELDT
Photographic Editor
C. E. BELL
Associate Photo Editor
L. C. BUSCHER
Art Director
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