Movie Makers (Jan-Dec 1930)

MO'm'HE I»I^m.B4.EIC9 IN CONFERENCE Production Staff Of The Orleans Cinema Club, New Orleans, La., Working On Campus Love AMATEUR CLUBS News Of Group Filmmg By Arthur L. Gale What Is Art? AT the last meeting of the Amateur Motion Picture Club in L Hartford, Conn.. Colonel Roy W. Winton, managing director of the Amateur Cinema League, addressed the club on the motion picture as an art medium, accompanying his talk with a screening of outstanding amateur films. The purpose of the program, as arranged by the Hartford club, was to discover the artistic trend of the amateur motion picture and to consider the scope and limitations of the motion picture as a medium of expression. Members of the Hartford club, seeking new fields to conquer, wished to profit from the experiences of other amateurs by arranging outstanding reels so that they represented an orderly line of progress. As fine examples of the more conventional motion picture technique. Just Fishing, filmed by B. V. Covert, and Many Times A Day, by W. Theodore Whitaker, were screened. Incident, produced by the Undergraduate Motion Pictures of Princeton, was presented as a specimen photoplay showing a modernistic trend. H2O followed, representing the abstract film, and The Fall of the House of Usher was offered as the amateur film making the most advanced use of all forms of cinematic technique. About one hundred club members attended the meeting which was concluded with a screening of Sea Gulls, a beautiful study in slow motion, filmed by Mrs. Alexander Victor. Plenty of Lights WITH the organization of the Photoplay and Cine Club of Durban, South Africa, the second amateur movie club has been formed on that continent. The new club, with a membership of forty-two, has already produced its first photoplay, The Hero, 400 ft., 16 mm. A local theatre, made available for interior work, will afford magnificent lighting and setting facilities for use in the next production. E. Bruce Fairbrass is the club's secretarv. Arts Compared TO compare the modern motion picture with modern architecture and design, Stephen F. Voorhees, vice-president of the Amateur Cinema League, recently screened H2O and The Fall of the House of Usher for the members of the Architectural League in New York City. The screening was followed by a free discussion among the two hundred architects present, in which it was established that the same elements of heterogeneous theme, restlessness and presentation of Nature's diversities are to be found in modernistic architectural design as in modernistic filming. Ralph T. Walker, the architect, and Scott Williams, the artist, figured prominently in the discussion. City Film N Plainfield, N. J., the Cinema Club is planning a Plainfield City Film to be jointly filmed by a committee of amateur cameramen from the club's membership. In addition, a monthly newsreel, featuring all interesting local events and developments captured by the members' cameras, is under wav. I Talk Technique LATE meetings of the Chicago Cinema Club featured a talk. Titles and How to Make Them, by N. J. Phelps; Lighting Equipment for Home Movies, a discussion and demonstration by Leonard Westphalen: Color Filters and How to Use Them, an address by Joseph Dubray of the Bell & Howell Co., and How to Secure the Best Results From Your Cine Film, an illustrated talk by H. A. Hart of the Eastman Kodak Company. The last meeting in February was devoted to the screening and discussion of members' films. (Continued on page 183) ORIENTAL AMATEURS When The Nippon Amateur Cinema League Meets In Old Japan 153