Home Movies (1944)

HOME MOVIES FOR DECEMBER PACE 527 SOUND For Your Silent Films! LET us convert your 16mm. picture to a sound film of the highest quality. Skilled technical staff, and finest sound recording equipment and studio facilities to serve industrial amateur, and educational film producers. OUR SERVICE USED BY: p Santa Fe Railroad l> Douglas Aircraft Co. y Boeing Aircraft Co. ^ North American Aviation F Standard Oil Co. of Calif. y U. S. Dept. of Interior y U. S. Army Special Services and many others. Write for Literature HM and Prices TELEFILM INCORPORATED 6039 Hollywood Blvd.. Hollywood 28. Calif. "Life In The Ozarks," by Bruce Barnhill, Los Angeles. "The Book Agent," by Wm. Thornberry, Menlo Park, Calif. "A Busy Day For A Little Busy Body," by Raymond J. Berger, Cheektowaga, New York. "Christmas Well Spent," by Dr. A. J. Thatcher, San Mateo, Calif. "Playtime In Santa Clara Valley," by T. M. Costley, San Jose. "Our Wedding Day," by Earl Brisbin, San Jose, Calif. "Around The Yard," by E. J. Amarantes, San Jose, Calif. "Animal Antics," by Raymond J. Korst, Buffalo, N. Y. "The Thirty-Niners," by Al Morton, Salt Lake City, Utah. Before returning the loaned films, we attached an especially prepared leader to each crediting the film with special exhibition at the Salon. In order to establish ourselves in good standing with our fellow hobbyists, so that we might again call upon them for films next year, we exercised special care with all films entrusted to us. Each was carefully cleaned before and after projection and returned promptly wound upon its original reel. Believe it or not, not a single splice parted during the showing. A model 70 Eastman Kodascope and a Bell & Howell 8mm. projector were used for screening the pic like the day. She tearfully accepts him and they embrace. While the photography and titling of this picture is generally good, it's chief fault is too hurried action on part of olayers which we can check up as i.n error in direction. The player's hearts do not seem to be in their work. The story idea, while an old one, is sound, and would prove more successful if treated as comedy rather than drama. An editorial fault noted was in the several scenes showing the card players. Even though some shots were supposedly set months later, the players were invariably the same and seated in the same chairs around the table. These shots should each have been filmed from f slightly different camera set up and the players moved or even dressed differently. This type of picture calls for more than average acting and direction with plenty of pantomime and emoting employed to keep the story moving. Painstaking rehearsals can do much to smooth out the acting faults of amateur thespians in story films of this type. The good points were just enough to tures. Two amateurs, in submitting their films, made specific requests that they be projected on a certain make projector, and these films were so programmed as to make this possible. As indicated by the program above, professional films were excluded. It was a 100% amateur show with 8mm. Kodachrome and black and white films divided equally on the program. The Salon is now established as an annual event with the San Jose Movie Club, and next year's show will also include 1 6mm. films. This type of club activity is to be recommended to all amateur movie clubs seriously interested in furthering the activity and interest of its members, as well as for acquainting a community with a club's activities and building membership. As a rule, there are enough good films to be found among the members of a club to provide a worthwhile program for public showing. For subsequent showings, outstanding films produced by members of distant clubs or individual movie amateurs will be found readily available. It is well not to underestimate the public's interest in amateur movies, as we did in our first public screening, but to choose an auditorium capable of seating an audience numbering in the hundreds. Just let them know you have home movies to show, and they'll come, and stand in line if necessary, for a choice seat! win for this picture a 3 -Star Merit Leader. Nerves On Edge, 175 feet 8mm. black and white, was filmed by Frank A. Rail, St. Joseph, Mo. It is a dramatic story based upon a logical plot but falls short of effectiveness because it is too long drawn out in the telling. Owning scene shows a young girl dressed as for a party picking up a telephone and starting to talk. It develops that she is calling her boy friend, although she is never shown dialing nor is there any other business that would indicate she was calling him. A title eventually clears things up and we see the boy friend reject her invitation to visit her with a curt "I'm too busy this afternoon." Boy friend then goes for a walk in the park. He encounters a nursemaid on a park bench tending an infant in a perambulator. He strikes up conversation with her. After awhile, nurse asks if he will watch baby while she goes to make a phone call. The nurse remains away for quite READY NOW 24 page illustrated catalogue LISTING MORE THAN 150 REELS OF FILMS 8mm. 16mm. Silent — 16mm. Sound Popular Prices . . . Write for Your Free Copy NU-ART FILMS, Inc. 145 West 45th Street, New York 19. N. Y. Work Harder for Victory Buy Bonds CUT HOME MOVIE COSTS with BLACK and WHITE fine grain Semi-Orthochromatic Reversible Film for finest results — lowest cost. lAmm. Reversible Outdoor Film 100-ft. Roll, only $2.50 Rating Scheiner 18 8mm. Reversible Outdoor Film 25-ft. Dble 8, only $1.25 Write for prices for developing and processing of 8mm. and 16mm. films bought elsewhere. VISUAL INSTRUCTION SUPPLY CORP. Dept. 12. 1757 Broadway, Brooklyn 7. N. Y. FOR CHRISTMAS BUY A-TO-Z COLOR TITLE OUTFIT Just what movie makers need. Thousands have found title making easy, quick, and fun. Only outfit using clear acetate film titles over photographic backgrounds in one to six colors. COMPLETE OUTFIT $6.50. Only sold direct. Order now or send for free sample test kit. A-to-Z MOVIE ACCESSORIES 175 Fifth Ave. Dept. H69. New York City 10. N.Y. WANTED: 1 EUMIG 8mm. camera with electric exposure meter. 1 Ditmar 8mm. camera with Electric exposure meter. Pay very good price for. A. Ehrhart, 476 Berryman Drive, Snyder, N. Y. J^eview* o/ cAmateur 3ilm£ . . . • Continued from Page 498