Movie Makers (Jan-Dec 1932)

Photo study from "The Last Entry" by J. F. Bell, j r., ACL Hartford meets ■ The Amateur Cinema Club of Hartford, starting the new year with this slightly revised name, held recently its first meeting of the season at the Hartford Golf Club. Seven 400 foot reels, made by members during the summer, were projected, with a description of the problems of each film given by its maker before the screening and a general discussion of them following. First Day at School, by W. C. Goeben, ACL, was well received because of its many closeups and carefully developed continuity; North Africa, by B. H. Blood, ACL, was distinguished by its thorough editing which left not a single frame of unworthy photography; Holland and the Rhine to Switzerland, by Thomas W. Russell, ACL, showed unusually pleasant lighting and compositions in its travel record. Other members' films projected included a Kodacolor scenic of Switzerland, by Clement Scott, ACL; an eclipse film, by Arthur A. Hebert, jr., ACL; a travelog of Mexico, by Miss Williams; an auto trip to Ontario, by Dr. Lane. The Hartford club is anxious to exchange members' films with other amateur groups on an informal, non contest loan basis, a splendid program activity with which the Amateur Clubs department is eager to cooperate. Other groups wishing to get in touch with the Hartford club may address it in care of the Amateur Cinema League. Reorganization ■ Reorganizing to secure a more closely knit group, the Cinema Club of San Francisco has discarded, at a late meeting of the directors, the sectional organization orginally followed. All meetings will now be general meetings. They will be planned to interest each of the members at some point, and should guard against the disintegration of unitary club strength sometimes threatened by the diverging interests of several sections. In the reorganization, G. A. Young, vicepresident of Camera Craft Publishing Company, has been chosen as secretary of the club and Herbert Luhn as treasurer. Results of the club's recent contest, for which there was offered a silver plaque by Mr. Dohrmann, ACL, will be announced later. Parisian election ■ ^n Paris> officers and directors of the Club des Amateurs Cineastes en France for the coming year have been elected as follows: Paul Lemare, president; Samuel T. Shaw, jr., ACL, vice president; Pierre Bonvoisin, secretary and treasurer; Georges Gronostayski, technical consultant; Jacques Lemare, studio manager; Pierre Boyer, Jacques Valdes, ACL, and Jacques de Tourtier, consultant officers. An active season is already under way in which technical addresses and the screening of members' films will be featured. Humming birds ■ A film study of humming birds, showing them in unusual closeups as they build their nest and rear their brood of young, was screened by Guy Harris at the opening meeting of the Sunkist Movie Makers, in Covina, Calif. Dr. and Mrs. W. Jarvis Barlow completed a successful program with the presentation of three reels from their travelog of British East Africa in the region of Uganda and the White Nile. At a later meeting, held in Hollywood, The Fall of the House of Usher, from the League Club Library, was screened and a new color process was demonstrated, according to the report of club president Rudolph R. Hartman, ACL, recently chosen as the guiding officer for the present season. Friendly ■ A friendly club cosmopolitanism is apparent in the list of judges who served in the recently completed contest held by the Greater Oakland Motion Picture Club, in California. There were among them Dr. Frederick H. Burton, ACL, secretary of the Berkeley Amateur Movie Club; G. A. Young, secretary of the Cinema Club of San Francisco; J. Dunning, member of the Richmond Camera Club; as well as Alfred Hargreave and 0. J. Smith. The decisions of this board of judges, which were heartily seconded by members of the Oakland club, gave first award to Waterways, by Elton Fox; second award to Rylock, by E. G. Thompson; third award to Ahwahnee, by Edwin C. Rosenberg, ACL. In Camera-Action, the club news letter, the entire competition was reported as a great success, with an unusually high quality to be noted in all entries. Officers for this year have recently been elected with William G. Latimer, ACL, president; Mr. Thompson, [Continued on page 575] news of Latest group activities and photoplays IAMES W. MOORE, ACL Amateur clubs