Movie Makers (Jan-Dec 1938)

MOVIE MAKERS 253 been removed and all wires have been placed underground, while various appurtenances of the Eighteenth Century have been reinstalled. Here is a cine paradise! Here are beauty, color, atmosphere and symmetry of design, with broad avenues and public greens that give open views to everything. But we have one word of caution. The majority of the homes in the restored area are occupied by tenants. These houses and their gardens are not open to the public. A number of exhibition buildings and gardens are open for public inspection, however, and the considerate amateur will find out in advance, at the official information office, which these are. Obviously, permission to film interiors of buildings cannot be granted. Following the historical motif, the next movie stage will be embattled Yorktown. This surrender ground of the Revolution is a scant fourteen miles from Williamsburg, partly over the new scenic Parkway, which ultimately will link this entire area into one unit. Here, from the ramparts of the same fortified positions once occupied by the Continental, French and British forces, the movie maker may film the opposing redoubts and artillery, silenced a century and a half. Here, a drama of great consequence was enacted, and the vestiges have been preserved and restored substantially to their original form. Standing, too, is York Hall, home of Thomas Nelson, jr., Revolutionary Governor of Virginia. It was here that Cornwallis had his headquarters during the siege of Yorktown. Still imbedded in its brick walls are cannon balls fired, tradition has it, by Nelson, himself, at the enemy who had taken his home. Within the American lines, beyond the range of battle, we find the old Moore House, whose walls witnessed the surrender negotiations. Finally, you can film the old Hampton road, down which the British column moved out of Yorktown, between lines of bedraggled American soldiers and resplendent French troops, to Surrender Field, where the vanquished redcoats laid down their arms. There are other beautiful places to film in Virginia, and you will want sequences representative of the old south after the colonial period. So take your movie camera in your car when you travel to Virginia. How a poem was filmed [Continued from page 243] They roistered to such good effect that the whole morning and part of the afternoon were spent on this sequence; indeed, the acting was so convincing that we wrote in two extra parts, a village idiot and a serving wench, to provide a little light relief. The village idiot, who MOVIE CAMERA HEADQUARTERS IIO WEST 52nd ST. N.Y Wjm 111 * If You Value Your Films — You Will Like This MODERN 16MM MOVIE MAKER'S LIBRARY FILM CHEST — Grows as Your Films Increase — The Most Practical and Beautiful Filing and Storing Cabinet Ever Offered Why should those fine films of yours, representing weeks and months of work, be stored in anything less beautiful or practical than this modern Library Film Chest? It files and stores your films and keeps the data as well. Regardless of whether or not you project your films regularly, this new style Film Library houses your films intelligently and is a fine show-piece by itself. However, you will not realize its true value from the point of convenience until you have examined the many practical features not found in any of the ^.50 storing devices offered heretofore ' per unit Including 10 attractive reel containers to hold ten 16MM. 400 ft. Humidors. SALE of USED EQUIPMENT 70A Bell & Howell Filmo 16mm Camera with //3.5 Cooke Lens & Case 42.50 Model B 16mm Cine-Kodak with //3.5 Lens & Carrying Case 21.50 Stewart-Warner 16mm Movie Camera with //3.5 Lens & Carrying Case 22.50 Mounts only, to fit Stewart-Warner 16mm Camera for use with Standard Telephoto Lenses 3.00 Wollensak 3% in. //3.3 Telephoto Lenses for use on Filmo or Victor 30.00 Bell & Howell 57 Model Projectors with 200 Watt Bulb & Case 35.00 Ampro Model K.S. Projector with 750 Watt Bulb & Case. Regular 165.00 Special 99.50 16mm Craig Splicer & Rewind Combination. Regular 19.50 Special 11.00 Thalharnmer Jr. Movie Tripod. Regular 27.50 Special 14.50