Home Movies and Home Talkies (Jun 1932-May 1933)

158 HOME MOVIES & HOME TALKIES From Egypt The Editor "Home Movies." Dbae Sir, — On page 8 of your ■first issue, I notice witli interest your article on slow motion pictures, and I shall feel much obliged if you will kindlj put me in touch with the manufacturers of the respective camera with a view of purchasing one if found suitable. Sincere congratulations to your new paper. I find it excellent indeed and far-reaching to the benefit not only of amateur cmematographers but professional as well. A subscription order has already been placed with our local booksellers. With anticipated thanks for your kind attention to the above enquiry and successful long life to "Home Movies," Yours, etc., STUDIO ALVISE, (Signed) Secretary. 2 Mahd. Pasha El Falaki Street, ALEXANDRIA, Egypt. WE'RE GETTING AROUND ! From New Zealand The Editor, "Home Mo^•IEs." Dear Mr. Editor, — I wish to congratulate you on the Home Movie Publication. It has filled a long-felt want and its success is assured. The " Home • Movies " will be a source of information to all amateurs — especially so to amateurs in New Zealand — as we do not possess the intensive film libraries, etc., of those in England. Amateurs \vill realise they now possess an exclusive publication, and in my small experience I have gathered some information with regard to "stops," "light," and "exposure," which you would be welcome to use, if you care to have same. Yours, etc., (Signed) W. G. BURN 109, Hataitai Road HaTAITAI, \^'ELLrNGTON, N.Z. From Vancouver "Home Movies." Dear Sms, — Congratulations on your new magazine, which I thoroughly enjoyed reading, and which I am looking forward to receiving in the future. . . . Yours, etc., E. SCHEEL. 301, Blenheim Court 1209, Jervis Street Vancouver, B.C., Canada. From Montreal Editor, "Home Movies." Dear Sir,— A friend of mine handed me a copy of your first issue of " Home Movies " about a week ago. I have since asked him to send you my subscription for a year. I write you now to congratulate you on this your first issue of " Home Movies." . . . A FEW SELECTIONS FROM OUR MAIL BAG I note your final word on page eight, and think you are off on a very good start. My only surprise is that you were not in the field years ago. Lord Dunedin is a keen 9^-mm. user. Here he is seen filming the Ahoyne Highland games. Notice the camera support and the Hugo Meyer telephoto lens Might say in passing, that we have noticed in Montreal that more films of English production are shown in our larger theatres, and I consider the photography of the English productions— particularlj' of the interiors — far superior to those of Hollj^vood, and the acting is not to be compared. As an Enghshman, I wish them every success. Yours, of course, is the amateur field. I am not a young man, being born in 1869, and have had my Movie " Filmo " and Projector for only four years, but I get a great deal of pleasure out of it. I may say that I have about thirty-six 4'oO-ft. reels edited and titled, and with the excej^tion of four or five reels these are all my own photography. I t'nnk you must have made consideiable progress in England within the last four years as I had great difficulty in boriowing a projector to show my friends wiiat Home Jlovies really mean. I was there in the smnmer of '28. For instance, in Hull I could not rent a projector ; the same thing in Bradford, tho nearest place being INIanchester ; so few of tho homes were equipped with electric light that in Yorkshire I had to give up in despair and did not show any pictui'es there — in fact, the only place I could was in London. You are probably wondering by now what all this has to do with your paper. I simply want to wish you every kind of success, and will look for your publication monthly. Yours sincerely, (Signed) DENT HARRISON. Harrison Brothers, Ltd., Montreal. " Pathkin " Answered. The Editor, "Home Movies and Home Talkies." Dear Sm, — In reply to the superbly original (?) letter of your disgruntled correspondent "Pathkin," I, too, have had many disappointments in the course of my cinematic enthusiasm, and most of them have originated from znentahties of the same type as that of your correspondent. His letter shows him to be devoid of the ordinary psychological susceptibilities that are box office draws and, ipso facto, must have a large appeal. If he had seen any number of amateur films he would have found that a niunber of them are very original and not in any way worthy of his destructive criticisms. Perhaps "Pathkin" would like to start a new national organisation to uphold his ideas, in a manner similar to a number of other fustianed amateurs (?) in their search for publicity ! It is this unfortunate bickering that is gnawing the vitals of the amateur cin6 movement throughout the country. AVhy don't amateurs say sometliing constructive mstead of merely pOing up the destructive debris of their minds on the garbage heap of bickeriHi"?" Let " Pathkin " and others of liis ilk bring forward the new idea whose absence they moan and possibljr all will be well. Lest it should be thought I was seeking some of the publicity I condemn, I sign myself. Crystal, Bournemouth.