Home Movies and Home Talkies (Jun 1933-May 1934)

32 IHOME MOVIES & HOME TALKIES INSTITUTE OF AMATEUR CINEMATOGRAPHERS AN INTERNATIONAL NON-PROFIT MAKING INSTITUTION. FREE I'ROM ANY COMMERCIAL CONTROL WHATSOEVER. ^.^-A 7 RED LION SQUARE, W.C.I f">j) Subscription President: Subscription 10/6 per annum His grace the duke of Sutherland, k.t. |o/6 per annum Hon. Secretary : Wm. E. CHADWICK, F.A.C.I. " We do not serve simply by selfish survival, but rather we shall survive by serving." — H.R.H. Prince George. 'T'BE many members who have joined the Institute recently are urged to realise that their Institution is designed and equipped to give them definite and specific services, other than the publication of its Monthly Bulletin and Technical Booklets. The services of the Institute are performing individualised tasks for more and more members each month. This work is greatly improved by the ever ready and sincere words of appreciation that arrive constantly at headquarters from members who have received I.A.C. aid and who are amazed at the detail and special research that is put into each and every request to give them the help they need so much. " / cannot understand why anyone who owns a cine camera should hesitate a moment before rushing to join. It would seem to be necessary to keep people out considering the advantages offered, and the efficient staff work rendered rather than to tempt them to become members." — W. G. This is but one of the very many similar phrases in letters from grateful members. The Institute is constituted and organised for practical help. The Monthly Bulletin is intended primarily to give up-to-date news and information for amateur cinematographers, to suggest new filming enterprises and experiments, and to describe methods of work as far as is possible without im])airing its other functions, but personal advice and assistance cannot be given through its columns. Members are requested to write to Red Lion Square for any help, the need for which they have found after reading the Monthly Bulletin, or at any other time. Members should make full use of their membership ; they will not get full value from the Monthly Bulletin alone. The Council of the Institute adheres to the sound principle that these booklets and help shall only be given upon request, and has not set up any automatic method for sending its services broadcast to the membership. To do so would not be to devote the Institute's funds in the best interests of its members. Therefore, the broad rule for members is : Ask for whatever you want. The Institute is built for service on lines hitherto unknown in the British Empire, it is giving that service to the greater part of its members, and should be giving it to every one of them. Who fails to receive it either fails to ask or is not a member. Are you one of these ? At Council Meeting held at Anderton's Hotel, Fleet Street, on May 16, the following 73 members were nominated for membership :— Desmond Garter ; J. A. Davison ; Stanley C. Churchill; G. P. May; WiUiam F. Gough, Jnr. ; Robert M. Cowell ; F. R. King ; J. R. Jeffress ; H. Harris ; L. E. Jones ; J. C. Blaxland ; C. J. V. Spencer ; J. R. Hawkes ; L. F. Ball ; W. J. Dunstall ; S. E. Ridgewell; W. N. Crawford; Dr. John R. Wortley -Talbot ; Capt. H. L. Assig ; Arthur H. Jacob ; A. D. Frischmann ; Robert P. Armitage ; D. C. Park inson ; Frank L. Houser ; John R. Dales ; John Edwards-Moss ; R. W. McDowell ; David Gilllspie ; A. L. Bawtree ; D. M. Gluckstein ; John Ayling ; Dr. H. M. Bird ; Henry J. Denne ; H. J. Morris ; George E. Mellor ; William G. Bennett ; P. W. Galium ; Dr. F. Ind, M.D. ; C. G. Baron ; Frederick W. Prince ; Kenneth F. Miller ; Christopher Brunei ; Mrs. Sylvia Johnston ; Philip A. Forsyth ; Clifford Chalker, Jnr. ; John Gordon ; W. R. Lawson ; A. MacLeod ; Arthur E. WilLams ; Clifiord J. Strain ; Arthur H. Haggas ; T. E. Emmett ; E. J. Crawford ; Montague Ewing ; A. J. Evans ; L. D. Atkinson ; L. Allen Gerrard ; C. B. Hunt, M.P.S. ; Charles J. Suter ; J. R. Courtney ; C. W. King; C. N. Harris, Henry A. Dobson ; H. F. Dobson ; A. C. Guest ; A. J. Kelynack; R. M. Gray; Sidney E. French ; John Lang ; John Henry ; Earle Jobling ; A. H. Butcher ; R. Howie Burnett, M.B., B.S. ; John N. Parrington. The 104 members nominated at the last Council Meeting were duly elected. ASSOCIATE MEMBERSHIP. The following companies were admitted to Associateship of tl^e Institute : — The Camera & Gramophone Co., London, S.W.I. J. T. Chapman, Ltd., Manchester. The Sheffield Photo Co., Sheffield. Messrs. J. Lizars, Glasgow. HONORARY MEMBERSHIP. The following were elected Honorary Members of the Institute : — A. Jympson Harman, Esq. ; Miss Gertrude Lawrence ; Miss C. A. Lejeune ; the British Photographic Manufacturers' Association, Ltd. ; the Photographic Dealers' Association ; the C.I.D.A.L.C, Paris. AFFILIATED SOCIETIES. The following were elected affiliated to the Institute : Dundee Cine Society. This arresting enamel sign displayed outside the premises of a dealer indicates to I.A.C. members APPOINTED ASSOCIATES OF THE that they are officially appointed by the Institute to represent the I.A.C. In order to ensure efficient working throughout the country of our cine service, appointments of Associate Members are supplemented by the appointment of numerous < — ' r e presentatives who are able and willing to render efficient . assistance and service to I.A.C. members. Members will find it to their own interest to deal with the officially appointed Associates and mention that they did so because oli the appointment. FREE CINE SERVICE TO MEMBERS TH£ UNIQUE SERVICES RENDERED TO I.A.C MEMBERS 1. I.A.C. FREE Monthly Bulletin Covers elementary and general subjects,. Hints, Tips and activities of the Institute. 2. I.A.C. Technical Advisory Service A thoroughly individual advisory service, direct, immediate and personal between the Institute and member. 3. I.A.C. Continuity Service The Ins itute advises in planning specific films by making suggestions for treatment. 4. I.A.C. Review of Films The Institute reviews members' films and makes sugges ions for future work. 5. I.A C. FREE Technical Booklets These arc supp'i.d to Institute members only and are not available elsewhere. 6. I.A.C. Blue Book Permit Members may use cine cameras in certain places of interest. 7. I.A.C. Affiliated Club Service The combined cxperic-nce of the Institute is available to all affiliated amateur cine societies. 8. I.A.C. All-Cover Insurance This unic|ue Insurance scheme, available to Institute members only, enables all cine and still photographic apparatus to be insured at the remarkably low rate of 10s. per cent. 9. I.A.C. Itinerary and Guide This contains p'aces of interest in this and other countries. Customs Duties and Regulations, b.auty spots, celebrations, fetes, etc. 10. I.A.C. Equipment Service The Institute is fully acquainted with all sources of supply. If a member is thinking of new equipment, the Institute's unbiassed opinion will help hiin. 1 1 . I.A.C. Associates' Service 10 per cent, reduction on library films on production of membership card, and free overhauling and oiling service. 12. I.A.C. Film Exchange The Institute has an interchange system by which members exchange films easily and rapidly with absolute safety. ] 3. I.A.C. FREE Animated Leader This is a double exposed film certificate of membership, just the thing to splice in at ;he beginning or end of your best films. 14. I.A.C. Movie-making Contests Four Challenge Trophies and over £200 in Equipment Prizes are offered. Entry forms on application. WHATEVER YOU WANT you can get it from one or other of the firms advertising in this number of HOME MOVIES JOIN THE l-A-C-MAKE THE PICTURE TELL THE STORY