Home Movies (1943)

HOME MOVIES FOR NOVEMBER PAGE 379 (MMk FOLDING FRAMES makers might successfully follow in "polishing" up last year's vacation picture. The continuity idea developed by Mr. and Mrs. Kieth Walker of Salt Lake City is unique as it is timely. The picture is in 8mm. Kodachrome, 150 feet in length. The story begins with Mrs. Walker seated in her living room figuring out how she and husband can take a vacation on 4 gallons of gas. Her husband enters scene and she shows him slip of paper, announcing at same time she's worked out problem. Mr. Walker checks her figures, finds she's in error by 4/ioths of a gallon. She suggets they can get by coasting part way home. Cutting of this sequence is well done and the picture gets off to a good start. The Walkers pick up another couple on the way and are soon off to the mountains, after buying 4 gallons of gas. Arriving at a mountain cabin, luggage is unpacked. The men go fishing while the wives prepare dinner. Later they go horseback riding. There follows several sequences of scenic shots of the country-side, flowers, etc. The vacation over, luggage is repacked and the two couples start for home. A closeup of a spinning car wheel gradually slowing suggests already the vacationers are having trouble. A subtitle "Oh! Oh! Out of gas. We forgot to coast!" confirms this. Cutting at this point is a little bad as the title is merely inserted between two irrelative shots. It should have been intercut into a closeup of one of the party speaking. The vacationers, after some difficulty, obtain the assistance of another motorist who pushes them back to town. Picture ends on this scene without a fade or an end title — a marring note in an otherwise well titled and edited picture. Photography rates fair, with several underexposed and out of focus scenes affecting the overall average. In awarding this picture 3 stars, consideration was given the original and very effective continuity idea and the editing treatment. (Bond* (Buy a Somber . . . • Continued from Page 353 fore gatherings of the Junior Chamber of Commerce, Lions Club, 20-30 Club, civilian defense groups, and others. Augmenting these talks was a program of films which were screened immediately afterward. All the films were productions of members of the Inglewood Movie Club. A highlight of the screen program was an appropriate reel picturing activities of the U. S. Army air force which included scenes of a Mitchell Bomber, the type of ship Inglewood citizens were being urged to buy. This film was made by a former member of the club, now in the Air Force, and was shown by special permission of the Army. With this film, as with all others shown at the various meetings, sound was added by means of disc recordings. Most of the films screened were 8mm. Another major activity of the club was the designing and production of posters announcing the drive. Much midnight oil was burned by club members in painting and lettering the posters which were displayed prominently all over the city. The club boasts a sign painter, a showcard letterer and a printer among its membership, so production of the poster publicity was no problem at all. The Inglewood Movie Club's bond drive opened officially on August 1st and on September nth, just five weeks later, they staged a "Bomber High Jinks" — a giant screen and stage show to thank Inglewood citizens and to an nounce that the $175,000 goal had been reached. By this time, the Government's third war loan drive was getting under way. Because of their tremendous success in raising $175,000 in a short space of five weeks, the Inglewood Movie Club was asked to join the Inglewood third war loan drive committee. The city's quota was now $300,000 with $175,000 already subscribed — the club's bond sales having been credited to the overall city quota set by the third war loan committee. The "Bomber High-Jinks" staged in the Inglewood high school auditorium set the ball rolling on the city's third war loan drive. By this time members of the Inglewood Movie Club were veterans at selling war bonds. The bond auction staged during the highjinks sent the community's bond receipts soaring. Merchandise contributed by local merchants was sold to the highest bidder, the bidding, of course, consisting of offers to buy war bonds corresponding to the price bid for an article. At the close of the drive, the city's quota of $300,000 was considerably oversubscribed. "Our club not only did a good patriotic turn in staging this bond drive," said club Prexy R. F. 'Bus' Van Vliete, "but we did more to knit our membership closer together than with any other activity previously staged by our club. The members' enthusiasm was tremendous. Fellows who normally would try to get away from a club meeting KEEP THEIR PICTURES SAFE Made to last a lifetime. 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