Movie Makers (Jan-Dec 1930)

796 DECEMBER 1930 The finishing touch to a perfect program... A BURTON HOLMES TRAVEL PICTURE BENT OR PURCHASE PROM YOUR DEALER Illustrated catalog on request BURTON HOLMES LECTURES, INC. 7510 N. Ashland Avenue, Chicago, 111. Holiday greetings to all my movie maker friends. May the new year bring you, among other good things, many feet of fino film. ALFRED S. GITHENS Title Expert 623 N. Columbus Ave. Mt. Vernon, N. Y. 16mm. Film Library 5-6 REEL 400 ft. FEATURE FILMS, FOR RENT Very Reasonable BELL & HOWELL CAMERAS & PROJECTORS PHOTO SUPPLIES J. F. BLATZHEIM 4-6 RIVERDALE AVE. Tel. 9717 Yonkers, N. Y. Write or Phone jor Injormation • Stationery, Cards, Bookplates, ► advertising, greeting cards etc. Easy rules furnished. Complete Outfits $8.85 up. Job Presses *U up. Print for Others, Big Profits, bold direct from factory only. Write tor catalog and all details. The Kelsey Company. W-48, Meriden, Conn. Eejie an Airlsmd 800 ft., 16mm., $60, The Junk Woman finds Eejie in an ash barrel. Bobby the Junk Boy builds a plane out of old junk and they sail away to a new fairyland on top of the moon. The Dixie Gsimg 800 ft., 16mm., $60. A slice of life in Hooligan Alley. "Ten little niggers and a long tailed monkey" show Shorty and Hi — sailor and doughboy — a good time. H. & H. Productions 1123 Lillian Way, Hollywood, Cal. WE MAKE YOUR SILENT PROJECTOR TALK 9.5 or 16mm. f $75 We take your silent projector and completely equip it for talking pictures, so that you may run both talking and silent films. No need to buy expensive equipment. In certain special cases this price may be slightly higher. Send make and model of projector for particulars. AVENDISH FILMS, Inc. 56 W. 45th Street. New York City GloseupS — ^What amateurs are doing JAMES W. MOORE BJWith the S. S. Tahiti sinking slowly in the South Seas and the nearest professional cameraman thousands of miles from the scene, an amateur again scooped the newsreels by recording the great disaster and thrilling rescue. Enlarged to 35 mm., the amateur record was flashed on American screens barely two weeks after the catastrophe. Complete in every detail, this outstanding newsreel clip shows the bobbing lifeboats struggling to safety with the Ventura, the last one making her side just as the crippled Tahiti slipped from sight. It was with a particular thrill, therefore, that League head [ . -~ ' quarters found the accompanying letter lying unobtrusively in a morning's mail, mute evidence of this disaster which was brought to the eyes of the world by a fellow amateur cameraman. i I b TLL£ AM ll9s:>rs. Amateur CiiiCi..u Lea.c-ue Inc. 1C5 Y/est ITortaietu Lt, tCev;. York, :^T. TJJITsXi STA2H-pi:P.lC.-. ^ tat,. i>e«^ ■ To Lieut. Tom . ■..■ — ■' Mub-oy, U. S. N. R., goes the palm for what is possibly the outstanding feat in amateur filming to date, for it was his privilege, through the cooperation of the Tidewater Oil Co., to make an amateur film record of the Byrd Antarctic Expedition. With never a clip of film to his credit before this job, Lieut. Mulroy, who is pictured below, carried 2100 feet of 16 mm. through tropical storms, heat and humidity, through polar ice and sub zero cold, kept it nearly two years in Little America and then brought every foot of it back to the laboratories in perfect processible condition. When the expedition barque, City of New York, on the way home from New Zealand to Panama, ran deep into a smashing South Pacific typhoon, he managed some filming even in this emergency, for, in over one hundred feet of the last reel, Lieut. Mulroy has brought back the blind and terrific fury of the sea in as stunning shots as one could hope to view. As the professional photographers were already speeding north on a liner with their thousands of feet of film, this sequence of the final battle of the gallant barque is exclusive to this unusual amateur record. I Dr. Fred S. O'Hara, movie maker of Springfield, 111., sends in heartening information regarding filming possibilities in old Mexico Since Movie Makers has more than once carried stories of another import, we are particularly happy to report that, during his entire stay in Mexico, Dr. O'Hara met with only the most courteous cooperation in his filming. He attributes this directly to a decent respect for their few and altogether simple regulations: (1) no filming of soldiery or military establishments; (2) no filming within public buildings such as museums, churches, etc. (checkrooms are provided for cameras) ; (3) no filming of railways or railroad stations (on account of the beggars infesting them). I Neil P. Home compels us by his persistence and continued success to write once more of his unusual reels of film autographs. Since early summer Mr. Home's additions to his family of the famous read like a list of who's who in the public prints: Sir Harry Lauder, Sir Thomas Lipton, Philip K. Wrigley, Julius Rosenwald, Major Kingsford-Smith, General Pershing, Admiral Sims, Arthur Brisbane, Robert "Believe It or Not" Ripley, and, of particular interest to movie makers, George Eastman. Mr. Home's films will some day form a valuable record.