Movie Makers (Jan-Dec 1942)

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it 500 and ALL EXPENSE TOURS See below COME to CANADA HERE'S A MOVIE CONTEST THAT'S A WONDERFUL VACATION! Accept this invitation from out friends and allies to visit their glorious vacationlands, rich in filming possibilities. Enter a movie contest with prizes worth shooting for! These Provinces Offer Attractive Choices BRITISH COLUMBIA. Beautiful British Columbia offers, as a prize to the amateur whose film is adjudged the best on that spectacular Province, an all-expense tour in 1943 for two persons, to the total value of $500. The winner will have the choice of several enthralling tours. QUEBEC. This old French Province offers, for the best film, an all-expense tour of three weeks for two persons in 1943. The tour will be arranged to cover the highlights of the Province, with sojourns in the cities of Montreal and Quebec. NEW BRUNSWICK. Amateurs competing for the 16mm. color prize in this Province will have incentives in the form of one or two possible 1943 prize tours of three weeks for two persons in this scenic Province. One of these will embrace general scenic and other attractions, while the other will offer a canoe camping trip on one of New Brunswick's great salmon angling streams. PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND. This attractive island Province offers a prize for the best film in the form of an all-expense tour for four weeks during the summer of 1943, for the prize winner and husband or wife. Salt water bathing and delightful trips through the scenic countryside. CONTEST RULESREAD CAREFULLY HHBHH BRITISH COLUMBIA QUEBEC NEW BRUNSWICK PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND 1. The contest will be open to all amateur movie makers residing in the United States. It is not open to amateur movie makers residing in the territories and possessions of the United States, nor to American citizens residing in Canada. It is not open to anybody engaged in the theatrical production of motion pictures. 2. The contest will extend from March 1st to 5 P. M. (Chicago war time), November 15th, 1942. 3. Entries may be made on 16mm. silent film only, but the film may be either black and white or color. 4. Entries must be at least 400 feet in length, and at least two thirds of the completed picture must consist of scenes taken during 1942 within the borders of one of the four cooperating Provinces of Canada (British Columbia, Quebec, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island) or of titles referring to these scenes. The remaining footage may consist of any appropriate material, such as scenes of travel to or from Canada or scenes of other Canadian Provinces. Thus, to compete in this contest, an amateur movie maker must select one of the four cooperating Canadian Provinces as his principal subject matter and to this Province he must devote two thirds of the footage of the finished picture. The remaining film footage may be such as best suits the particular continuity or film idea that the contestant has chosen. 5. Competitors may choose for the subject of their films any scenic, geographical, industrial, or community topic, or any recreation or sport, so long as the subject matter relates to the competitor's own travels within the borders of the one of the four Provinces that he has selected. 6. Entries will be judged upon the basis of good movie technique, film continuity, and interest of subject matter. 7. The cinematography of each film must be the work of the contestant who enters that picture, except that titles may be the work of professional or commercial studios. 8. Contestants may enter films of more than one Province, providing that each film meets all the requirements of the contest rules. 9. Entries must be shipped, prepaid and preferably insured, to: National Film Board of Can ada Contest, care Canadian Trade Commissioner, Tribune Tower Building, 435 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois. U.S.A., and must be in the offices of that company by 5:00 P. M. (Chicago war time) November 15, 1942. 10. The board of judges, whose decisions shall be final, will be composed of the following: John Grierson, Canadian Government Film Commissioner; Alfred Hitchcock, well known Hollywood director; Arthur L. Gale, editor of Movie Makers. 11. All entries will remain the property of the contestants, but the National Film Board reserves the right to make copies of all prize winning films and to arrange for the use and distribution of such copies, in any manner that it sees fit. 12. Entries will be returned prepaid and insured by the National Film Board, either by express or parcel post, as soon as possible following the judging of the contest, and the prize winning films and their makers will be announced publicly on December 31. 1942. 13. Phonograph records for musical accompaniment cannot be received. Narrations or written commentaries cannot be read in connection with the screenings for the judges and therefore will not be considered. Sound on film pictures are not eligible, but any entry may be taken at a camera speed of twentyfour frames a second for post synchronization after the contest. 14. The five awards will consist of one first prize of $500.00 and four all expense tours within Canada during the year 1943. One prize will be granted by each of the four co-operating Provinces for the best film about that Province, the prize consisting of a free tour for two persons within that Province. There will be. in addition, a cash prize of $500.00, given by the National Film Board, to the film considered by the judges to be the best of the four films winning the free tours offered by the Provinces concerned. In all 'Cases, the prize tour starts within each particular Province. Neither the Provinces of Canada nor the National Film Board can undertake to pay the expenses of the prize winner and his companion from the United States to the point of departure nor from the point of departure to the United States on the return trip. DECIDE NOW! WRITE FOR DESCRIPTIVE BROCHURE TO NATIONAL FILM BOARD OF CANADA OTTAWA CANADA