Movie Makers (Jan-Dec 1936)

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CHICAGO, ILL r R OSCO Products FILM SPLICER I6MM. 35MM. EMULSION REMOVER Wets and scrapes off the emulsion FILM CEMENT FLEXORINE Film Humidifying Fluid FILMRITE Super film cleaner ROSCO LABOR A TORIES 367 Hudson Ave. Brooklyn, N. Y. ed in demonstration of his several points a number of selected sequences from both his personal and his professional work. The meeting was concluded with a screening of Hooked, 8mm. Ten Best winner of 1934, by the Grand Rapids Movie Makers, and Dummy Walks Out, 1935 Ten Best winner by M. P. Gamber, ACL, and Walter Mills, ACL, both of the Grand Rapids club. These films were sent on loan exchange by the Michigan group for representative reels from the Los Angeles membership. Kodak club officers! In Rochester, N. Y., officers for the coming year of club activity have been elected and announced by the Kodak Camera Club, ACL, as follows: Dr. Walter Clark, president; E. R. Taylor, vicepresident ; Mildred Hall, secretary; Monica Powers, assistant secretary: Herbert Shaw, treasurer. These officers were installed at the last meeting of the club, which was favored by a discussion and demonstration of Kodachrome by Leo Godowsky, one of the two young Rochester musicians who invented this new color process. Approximately 450 members and guests attended the meeting. Players present ■ The recent premiere of Ten Easy Lessons, first production of the Cinema Players of Chicago, was a great success, according to the report of George W. Colburn, ACL, director of this new group. On the program with this comedy there were presented a California scenic, by Mr. Colburn; Traffic Tangle, a theatrical sound reduction; Consequence, by S. F. Warner, ACL, of the Chicago Cinema Club, and Valiant Dust, by the Boston Cinamateur Club, from the League's Club Library. Fourteen members are looking forward to immediate activity on a second film, under the leadership of Charles H. Byrne, president, Gladys Gates, secretary treasurer and Mr. Colburn. Titles tell ■ -^ contest judged solely on the excellence of the titles has recently been concluded by the Cinema Club of San Francisco and results will be announced soon, according to the report of J. Oliver Tucker, ACL, president. Screenings at late meetings have included Lake Shawnigan, a color scenic, by Spencer W. Symons ; Yosemite, by E. G. Petherick, ACL; Ethiopia, China and Japan, by Theodore Rothman. Dr. D. H. Miller demonstrated a mirror device for simple dissolves. New member ■ Rudy Vallee, ACL, active cinematographer and Movie Makers author, is now a life member of the Toronto Amateur Movie Club, according to the latest issue of Shots and Angles, club newsletter. Mr. Vallee was introduced to the club by Cliff Shorney and inducted into membership by council chairman S. F. D. Sampson, ACL. Several reels of his complete Kodacolor record of his summer home in Maine were screened by Mr. Vallee following the formalities. Other items on Toronto programs have been a demonstration of 8mm. trick work by Thomas Mace, ACL, a presentation of experimental films in Kodachrome by Narcisse Pellettier and Harry Winter, ACL, and a showing of sound films by Mr. Sampson. S. W. Stock, of the Canadian General Electric Company, has addressed the club recently on the subject, Incandescent Lighting. Outdoor Setting ■ M e m b e r s of Lens and Tripod, a production group working in Salem, Mass., under the leadership of William J. Koen, ACL, recently journeyed to nearby Grafton to witness theatrical production methods as carried on there in filming Ah, Wilderness by a unit of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Clarence Brown was the director and Clyde De Vinna was in charge of photography. Grafton is the quiet New England village which, after wide research, was selected as offering a perfect outdoor setting for the nostalgic O'Neill drama of yesteryear. Adapting animation [Continued from page 14] lengthening the stride of the character. Figures 3 and 4 on page 12 give an idea of the proper construction of your backgrounds. The spot where the character works must, at all times, be kept very much lighter in tone or color so that it will not conflict with the action and so that none of the action will be lost by blending into the background. A simple pencil background, such as Figure 5 on page 13, can be made easily by anybody with artistic ability. This can be lengthened into a four field panorama if desired. A water color wash background (Figure 6 on page 14) is a bit more difficult to make. However, any artist can make backgrounds such as this at a reasonable cost, and it will add a lot to the appearance of the animation. Enlargements of regular photographic negatives can also be used as backgrounds. Novel "gags" can be produced by enlarging frames from regular motion picture film and using these as backgrounds for animated characters. Cut the animated sequence back into the picture and the characters will appear to be photographed with the rest of the reel. Extra "cells" or "X cells" are great labor savers in making animated cartoons. The illustration (Figures 7, 8 and 9 on page 14) of "Elmer The Great Dane," taken from the Walter Lantz