Movie Makers (Jan-Dec 1939)

MOVIE MAKERS 247 CloseUDS — What filmers are doing Charles w. Herbert, who counsels you in this number to shoot the moon, is a cameraman worth listening to. As one of the ace cinematographers working for Louis de Rochemont, when that talented director was weaving together the beauty which comprised the Magic Carpet series, Mr. Herbert proved himself a movie maker with imagination. He brings a sample of it to you in this unusual discussion. Two members, one new and one old to the League's ranks, have written us of their interest in getting in touch with certain of their fellow filmers. Lee Walp, ACL, who hails from Marietta College, Marietta, Ohio, will be glad to hear from others engaged, as he is, in taking movies through a microscope. Ward H. Butcher, ACL, on the staff of The Western Star, in Coldwater, Kansas, will welcome contacts with other ACL's in central or western sections of his State. Write to them direct. From Alexandria, in Egypt, comes the stimulating news that His Majesty, King Farouk, of Egypt, is deeply interested in substandard movie making, as are many other members of his court. B. Askanaz, ACL, serves His Majesty in this interest as his private 16mm. cameraman. Fred Robalin, ACL, who reports that he values his association with the League so highly that he frames his several cards of membership, is interested in hearing from all movie makers in the Fred Robalin, ACL, displays his League membership cards vicinity of San Antonio, Texas, who wish to join with him in the formation of an amateur movie club. He may be addressed directly, at 225 Cadwallader Street, in San Antonio. Last summer, just a week before the schooner Bowdoin sailed out of Maine's Boothbay Harbor, Robert W. Nutter, ACL, who was going on the cruise, received from his father a 16mm. movie camera. It was the Bowdoin s seven Enlargement of portion of a frame of "On Ice", a skating film by T. J. Courtney, ACL teenth cruise to Greenland under the famous explorer, Commander Donald MacMillan. It was to be Mr. Nutter's first contact with amateur movies. Kendall Greenwood, ACL, a friend in his home town of Sanford, advised trying the League for some much needed guidance, and, with a rush job, we managed to put Making Better Movies on board the Bowdoin before she sailed. In the ten weeks which followed, Mr. Nutter exposed 1200 feet of 16mm. color, to bring back as capable a record of the cruise as anybody would care to see. Strikingly titled 78° N., the film is a major compliment to Mr. Nutter's latent abilities as a movie maker. O N a recent cruise to Puerto Rico, Dr. William F. Small, ACL, and Mrs. Small, of Newburgh. N. Y., had the good fortune to find themselves shipmates with the Honorable Blanton Winship, Governor of Puerto Rico. Not only did Governor Winship pose willingly and with photographic intelligence for scenes on shipboard, but he invited Dr. Small and his entire party to visit him at La Fortaleza in San Juan. The fine sequences obtained there highlight an able cruise record, entitled At Home Abroad, which now is paying a courtesy call on the Governor, in Puerto Rico. Frank Seaman, ACL, founder and president of Frank Seaman, Inc., New York advertising firm, died late in March at his home in Napanoch, N. Y. He was eighty one years old. Joining the League as a life member in September, 1926, Mr. Seaman held membership card No. 7. He was a friend of the late George Eastman and handled Eastman Kodak Company advertising until his retirement from business in 1927. A • • • • • I LAACK F:1.3 ULTRA SPEED LENS You can laugh at poor light conditions with this super speed objective. Speed up the camera for slow motion and get perfect pictures. In micrometer focusing mounts. 8mm. Vz in. 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