Movie Makers (Jan-Dec 1939)

MOVIE MAKERS 321 How the League can help ALTHOUGH the service the Amateur Cinema League can offer to its members and to amateur movie makers and still photographers who visit the New York World's Fair is largely through the publication of this special number of Movie Makers, the League will be glad to do whatever may be possible to aid individual cameramen with their problems. Advice on specific matters having to do with the continuity and technical phases of films that movie makers are planning must, as heretofore, be limited to League members. Otherwise, other demands would interfere with service to members who are specifically entitled to it. There are, however, many sudden emergencies that visiting cameramen — both movie and still — may meet, and whose solution frequently requires but a telephonic word of advice. This, the Amateur Cinema League is happy to give. If you meet one of these emergencies, do not hesitate to ask the League for help, by telephoning to MOhawk 4-0270, in the Manhattan telephone exchange. We shall not of course, have all the answers, but we can give you a start, at least, toward an answer, if not the answer itself. The League must restrict to its members only a service that will be of real value to Fair visitors. This is the projection in the League's projection room of footage that its members have made at the fair. If you are a member, you are invited to bring your reels to the League and to get the advice and comment of League consultants upon them. The aid to all filmers cannot be made more specific in advance, since individual cases will be so different. But there are some specific things that the League cannot do, either for its members or for other cameramen. It has made no arrangements with the New York World's Fair for any special consideration to be given to those who show League membership cards. To have asked this would have been to request something that would be unfair to those who are not League members. The Fair authorities are obligated to treat all movie makers and photographers alike. So, any effort to get special consideration through League membership cards will be unsuccessful. There is no need for special consideration, anyway, since the Fair management has been magnificently hospitable to cameras and their users. The opening month of May has seen hundreds of thousands of movie and still picture makers at the fair, all of them filming to their heart's content. The Amateur Cinema League cannot undertake to make purchases for, or to effect deliveries of purchases made, either by its members or by the general camera public. The stores of Underwood & Underwood at the fair — the large color chart of the exposition in this number of Movie Makers shows where their main store is located — can supply movie and still cameras and films, of all kinds, so that sudden demands can be satisfied. The photographic stores in New York City that distribute Movie Makers (a list of them is in this number) are ready to meet every requirement of every visitor, who has not made his purchases before he comes to the fair. The League has not made, and will not make, any arrangements for checking To Make Your Fair Movies Permanent Use Du Pont Superior Pan Long after the Fair has closed, you can still enjoy your movies of it made on Du Pont Superior Pan. Everything you take with this versatile l6mm film becomes a permanent record. The reason is simply that Superior Pan is processed by the professional Negative-Positive method. This "two film" system gives you the original negative as well as a positive print for projecting. When the first positive print becomes scratched or worn, you can replace it by having another made from the negative. When the shots you are taking are priceless or can never be replaced use Du Pont Superior Pan. Extra prints of your Fair movies will make most acceptable gifts for your friends. DU PONT FILM MANUFACTURING CORPORATION. INC. 9 ROCKEFELLER PLAZA ' Hi, folks! — How about a nice quiet evening with my World's Fair films?"