Movie Makers (Jan-Dec 1931)

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MOVIE MAKERS 85 Reel Golf from the League Club Film Library were screened at a recent program meeting which was well attended. Japan From Masao H. Kawamoto comes a report of the progress of the Film Amateur Society in Tokyo, Japan. This active organization has constructed a research laboratory for members' use, publishes a monthly periodical in Japanese on movie making technique as well as pamphlets on specific problems, holds regular monthly programs and an annual competition, supplies news of amateur cine activities to all general news publications in Japan and conducts a regular amateur movie department in Kinema Jumpo, Japan's oldest motion picture trade paper. YonkerS ■ The Cinema Amateurs of Westchester, N. Y., are planning the production of Dunsany's A Night At An Inn. A scenario of the play has already been written by H. L. Dietrich and D. C. McGiehan. This amateur unit is well equipped to undertake a production of this kind having already made many excellent film stories requiring unusual technique and particular handling of interior lighting equipment. Chicago ■ Recent programs of the Chicago Cinema Club have included a talk and motion picture program by John A. Maloney of the motion picture section of the Museum of Natural Science and Industry in Chicago, a demonstration by Bell & Howell of the new Filmophone, together with a talk on amateur sound technique, and a lighting demonstration and discussion given jointly by the Cinema Club, the Chicago Camera Club and the Chicago Lighting Institute. A cooperative club newsreel has been started. Each member has been asked to film all interesting events he can catch and to submit the scenes to a committee every two weeks. The composite work of all members, edited and titled by the committee, is then screened at the monthly meetings. It is intended that this material will later be reedited and compiled to make an annual film history of Chicago and the suburbs. This is decidedly a worthwhile idea and one that offers interesting possibilities for other clubs. jersey City ■ A recent meeting of the Hudson County Cine Club in Jersey City, N. J., opened with a club dinner after which members' films and reels depicting the work of the State in fish conservation were screened. Arthur L. Gale presented the congratulations of the Amateur Cinema League on the close of the club's very successful first year. Officers and directors of the past year, headed by Dr. Clarence W. Winchell, were all unanimously reelected. Club members have been holding a series of screenings for the entertainment of children in Saint Joseph's Home and other charitable institutions. Argentina ■ The first amateur photoplay to be made in the Argentine of which we have any record is Sombras, a 16 mm. drama recently produced in Buenos Aires under the leadership of Carlos Connio. The film, directed by Luis Saslavsky and photographed by Mr. Connio, presents a tragic story of an ambitious mother who wrecks her daughter's life by destroying the correspondence from her sweetheart who is abroad. The story does not finish with the usual happy ending but is completed in the way such incidents are actually likely to end. In the cast were Mrs. Isabel Villamil, Jorge Weil, Susanna Villamil, Mrs. Quelita Iturralde, Vazquez Masilla, Ernesto Vergara and Pancho Murillo. The story by Mr. Saslavsky was adapted from a play t hat was produced in Buenos Aires by an amateur dramatic group. [Cont. on page 112] Striking stills from "Lot", new film by producers of "Usher" Dr. J. S. Watson-Melville Webber