Movie Makers (Jan-Dec 1943)

415 AMATEUR CLUBS What organized groups are doing everywhere Comedy in Cleveland Seven members of the Cleveland Amateur Cinematographers, meeting monthly in each other's homes, have recently completed production of a comedy which was planned, bit by bit, by each one of them. The picture is titled No Escape, or Phil's Bills, and it was produced in two 16mm. monochrome versions, by Willard DeWitt and Jake Worz. and in one 8mm. Kodachrome version by Phil Danzinger, ACL. Mr. Danzinger played the only part in an episodic story which told a farcical tale of a man driven to attempt suicide by the pressure of his mounting indebtedness. Planning each new suicide effort (and the sequence portraying it) was the responsibility each month of the member in whose home the filming was to be done. Other members of the CAC engaged in this remarkably successful project were Harry Guenther, ACL. Gordon Smith, Thorens Melkerson and John Knuth. Syracuse elects New officers for the coming club season have been announced by the Syracuse (N. Y. ) Movie Makers Association, as follows: Nedford Olney, president; Robert Kimber, ACL, vicepresident; Seymour Ratter, treasurer; Walter Kellogg, recording secretary; Lisle Conway, corresponding secretary; Roy Pannemburg, sound technician; Archibald Rodgers, Earl Abbott and Maurice Schwartzburg, members of the board of advisers. The program for the club's annual Garden Party meeting, held at the home of Arthur Tucker. ACL. included New Hampshire on Parade and In the Beginning, 1942 Ten Best award winner, by Fred C. Ells, FACL; Amateuriana, by the Indianapolis Amateur Movie Club; The Hollow Idol, by the Syracuse club; Our Baby by Mr. Abbott, and The River, by Mr. Tucker. Syracuse club meetings have been changed to the first and third Tuesdays of each month, at 336 West Onondaga Street, group headquarters. jM In Indianapolis Members of the Indianapolis Amateur Movie Club gathered recently in the Cellar Cinema of Roger T. Sneden, ACL, for a smoothly presented program accompanied throughout by music and sound effects on disc. Seen on the Sneden screen were Our Southern Neighbors, a Castle Films release reedited by Mr. Sneden for the occasion; Filter Facts, a technical short feature, by Mr. Sneden; Back to the Soil, by George Mesaros, ACL, and The Voorlezer's House, by Frank E. Gunnell, FACL, both 1942 Ten Best award winners from the League's Club Library; Our News of 1942, Part Two, by Mr. Sneden. Attractive programs, press printed by Mr. Sneden for the JAMES W. MOORE, ACL occasion, rounded out the event. joint meeting in S. F. Initiating what promises to be an annual occasion, members of the Westwood Movie Club and of the Cinema Club of San Francisco held a highly successful joint meeting recently, gathering in the quarters of the latter group at the Women's City Club. Following a cafeteria dinner, the film program presented Visiting Nurse, by Dr. J. Allyn Thatcher, ACL (San Francisco), assisted by Jesse W. Richardson (Westwood) ; My Garden, by Ed Franke (Westwood) ; Fantastic Formations, by Rudy Arfsten, ACL (San Francisco) ; The Artist and The Model, by Ed Sargeant. ACL (San Francisco I ; Apartment Victory Garden, by Clyde Wortman (Westwood) ; San Francisco, The Story Book City, by Lieutenant Russell Hanlon (San Francisco); Kodachrome slides, by Leon Gagne, Henry Swanson and Erik Unmack, ACL (Westwood). Tri-City cllOOSeS Georgia T. First. ACL. of Rock Island, 111., has been announced as president for the coming club season by the Tri-City Cinema Club, serving Rock Island and the communities of Moline, 111., and Davenport. Iowa. Other officers are Willis F. Lathrop, ACL, of Davenport, first vicepresident; Tom Severs, of Moline, second vicepresident; Dr. James Dunn, ACL, of Davenport, secretary treasurer. Serving with [Continued on page 430] • Shots in No Escape, or Phil's Bills, comedy produced by Cleveland Amateur Cinematographers in which Phil tries to escape his bills by committing suicide. 8mm. scenes by Phil Danzingrer, ACL