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

HOME MOVIES & HOME TALKIES 383 one who is not a good " letterer " printers' types are difficult to copy. I enclose a specimen alphabet and title in the hope you will reproduce it for the benefit of those who like to draw their own titles. This was drawn with an ordinary pen lettering set which can be bought for Is. or Is. 6d. from any good stationer's or dealers in artists' materials. They last for years and there is a whole range of nibs from fine (for small lettering)" and wide (for the larger types). The specimen title is quite a simple one and anyone with a little imagination can embellish their designs with pleasing flourishes. Indian ink is the best to use (that is, of course, for black on white titles developed as a negative to show white on black on the screen). Poster water colour black and white can be used but it is necessary to fill tlie nib with a brush in this case. H. P. Dun. 291 Sprowston Road, Norwich. ABCDG£FqHIJKLMT22 YZ 1£54567890"''& abcdcfgKljklmrvopcjrsluvwxvz The Libraries To the Editor of Home Movies AND Home Talkies. Dear Sir, — May I wish you and your excellent journal all best wishes for 1934 and bigger and better circulation— your journal's, of course. Would it be possible to get some articles by Mons. Starewitch on model work (vide "The Mascot" at the Marble Arch Pavilion and " The Song of the Nightingale," late of Pathe's 9.5-mm. library) as he is imdoubtedlv the finest manipulator of dolls for the screen in the work!, and I feel sure many other amateurs would take an interest as great as mine in some article by him on his methods of working ? Re recent correspondence. I should like to see the following films in substandard libraries : Any of Starewitch's animated Puppet films (I own the old ■■ Song of the Nightingale " on 9.5-mm.) ; " Berlin," '• Rain," " Waxworks," "The Man with a Movie Camera," " The Blue Express," " The Phantom of the Opera," Rene Claire's "Invisible Rag," and the old Hollywood short "A Ride on a Rmiaway Express." I also think all libraries should rent films optionally one at a time as well as with books of coupons. I know some do, but all definitely don't, and I for one am not paying down several potmds to get two or three reels I want and some I am not interested in. Re 16-mm. film in shorter lengths. — I consider this an excellent idea provided the manufacturers do not make it an excuse for putting up the i:)rice per foot still more !^ — Yours sincerely, Kenneth F. Miller, 61 Queen's Road, Beckenham, Kent. WHATEVER YOU WANT you can get it from one op other of the firms advertising in this number of HOIVIE MOVIES ^APPY 'l^eiHOR^ ot our holidays at lOaraab I933 Mr. H. P. Dun's Alphabet and Specimen Title SUNDAY REFEREE '' NATIONAL AMATEUR FILM CONTESTS PRIZE WINNING NAMES by J. D. Ridley THE following are the prizewiimers in the Sunday Referee National Amateur Film Contests : — CLASS A (Storv-films Produced by Clubs.) First Award: "Driftwood," produced by Ace Movies, of London. (16 mm.) Second Award: "Hair," produced by the Meteor Film Producing Society, of Glasgow. (35 mm.) Third Award : " All Is Not Gold," produced by the Brondesbury Cine Society, of London. (9^ mm.) Diplomas of Merit were awarded to: "Poor Jemiy is AWeeping," produced by Apex Motion Pictures, of London (9^ mm.); and "Face Value," by the Bolton Amateur Cinematographers' Association (16 mm.). CLASS B.— SECTION 1 (Holiday Films Produced by Clubs or Individuals.) First Award : " All On a Summer's Day," produced by the Meteor Film Producing Society, of Glasgow. (16 mm.) Second Award: "Cruising in the Norwegian Fjords," by W. J. BassettLowke, of Northampton. (16 mm.) Third Award: "The Outer Isles," by W. H. George, of Chesterfield. (16 mm.) Diplomas of Merit were awarded for: "Maritime Moments," by Ian Gray Mcleod, of Glasgow ; and Guernsey, ' ' London. of CLASS B.— SECTION 2 (Interest Films Produced by Clubs or Individuals.) First and Second Awards were equally divided between "In a Valley in the Border Hills," Ijy Arthur G. Greaves (16 mm.), and " Symphony of Nature," by Paul Burnford, of London (16 mm.). Third Award: "Saturday," produced by the Bolton Amateur Cinematographers' Association. A Diploma of Merit was awarded to " Symphonic Pastorale," by F. P. Barnitt, of Tunbridge Wells (9^ mm.) ; and a special diploma was awarded to the Finchley Amateur Cine Society for their film of the Finchley Charter Celebrations. The Sunday Referee Championship Trophy for the best all-round example of amateur work entered was awarded to Ace Movies for "Driftwood." The final judging session was held at Film House, Wardour Street, when the Rt. Hon. Viscount Lee of Fareham presided, and the following judges were present : Sinclair Hill (Chairman of the Panel of Jvidges), Percy W. Harris (Editor of Home Movies and Home Talkies), Anthony Asquith, Basil Emmott, C. A. Walker, Lionel Collier, Adrian Brunei, Donald Calthrop, Angus McPhail, H. E. Alexander, and Dr. D. A. Spencer.