Movie Makers (Jan-Dec 1931)

396 The Individual Touch ♦ . ♦ . ♦ Home Movies constitute a personal field. Stereotyped titling and editing impart a strange feeling to something which ought to be delightfully individual. Each problem of lettering, the style to be used, its application to the subject, should be carefully thought out. Therein lies the advantage of Eno Service. Editing means more than a mere series of mechanical operations. Learn, like many others, what this difference really means. Send $2.00 and copy for two short titles and receive your hand-lettered tryotit ready to splice into your films. Please do not ask for free samples. Kindly use the tryout FREE: A beautiful hand-lettered "The End" with each order. DISTINCTIVE K0DAG0L0R TITLES (Hand-Lettered or Printed) 48 HOUR SERVICE RALPH R. ENO 1425 Broadway, New York METROPOLITAN OPERA HOUSE STUDIOS Phone: Penn. 6 2634 Ralph R. Eno is a Charter Member, Amateur Cinema League, and America's Pioneer (16mm. J Art Title Builder and Film Editor. bothering to mix a highball and they went to bed. In the morning, after David had gone to town without touching his second egg, Helen discovered that Scotty, during the night, had dragged landscapes from the wing chair and the architectural from the tea stand and mixed them up in the fireplace and that he had taken offence at Mrs. Peebles (not being a profane dog) and had badly chewed her. So Helen got an empty A & P carton and dumped all the film in it, helter skelter, put it on the top shelf of the hall closet, wept a little, and went to town and bought a new hat. Two months later, David discovered what she had done and in an awful huff bought some more cement, got out the splicer and, without a word to Helen except to tell her that nothing would ruin film more quickly than being all left unwound in a dry closet, he spliced it all together just as it came out of the box, wound it up, put it away moist, washed his hands and went down to the community club and bowled five of the worst scores he had ever made in his life. And a month after that, when Grandma came on from the West, they got out the projector and showed the honeymoon pictures but they told her, together, that she mustn't mind if it seemed an awful hodgepodge, that one of these days they were going to edit it and that they already had a splicer which would do wonders. "It's really marvelous," said Helen, "the dramatic effects you can get, with careful editing." Amateur clubs [Continued from page 378] a recent meeting of the club, amateur talkie equipment was demonstrated and this was followed by a projection of members' latest films. A scenario committee is working on a script for production this summer and the club's secretary has been keeping in touch with other amateur movie clubs in California. Perhaps a state wide amateur movie contest will result from this interclub correspondence. Larchmont ■ The Cinema Club of Larchmont, N. Y., intends to go into production with a story to feature Larchmont's waterfront, it is announced. The production committee consists of Harry Rich Mooney, Paul H. Terry and Peter F. Lindemann, who have chosen B. A. Lundy as director of the club's first effort. The club's schedule of instructive programs is being continued and the subject being covered at present is titling. Instead of lectures or formal talks, the members exchange information on the JULY 193T subject of the evening and then proceed, after the meeting, to experimental demonstrations. Special Contest ■ A special con test was featured at a recent meeting of the Chicago Cinema Club. A roll of panchromatic film was offered as an award for the members' film displaying the best photography screened at the meeting. The program was devoted to the projection of members' reels and recent additions to the club's library. Through Europe With A Movie Camera, a talk and projection of films by G. C. Lowell, and Titles And Title Making, a report from a club study committee, were features of later meetings. Stanford ■ Production of Markheim, joint effort of the English Club of Stanford University and the cameramen of Stanford Studios, is progressing. The story features but two characters, Markheim, being played by A. Grove Day, and the dealer, being played by James Lyons. Victor Ricketts is general manager of the production unit and William A. Palmer is in charge of cinematography. Fine feathers ■ In Youngstown, Ohio, Clyde Hammond is preparing for the production of a photoplay to run approximately 600 ft., 16mm. The script is based on the thwarted desire of a country girl for beautiful clothing. The idea is developed in two or three incidents, each to be handled with detailed camera study. All scenes will be exteriors. Chicago 9.5 The 9.5 Amateur Cinema Club of Chicago is conducting a membership drive. To the club member who brings in the largest number of new members will be awarded two rolls of film and a library subject. Club members are now working on their film study of Chicago. Work of each member of the club is to be represented in the finished film. At a recent meeting, The Fall Of The House Of Usher was screened, followed by a discussion of the technique used. Prisms and other means of cine illusion were shown. Door prize ■ A surprise program was presented at the latest meeting of the Portland Cine Club. In addition to the program a contest was held with an award for the best photographed film of two hundred feet or less. The basis of judgment was photographic quality alone. A hundred foot roll of film was offered as the prize. A "door prize," consisting of another roll of film, was also awarded. This prize was drawn by lot as the members entered the door of the meeting place.