Movie Makers (Jan-Dec 1944)

330 AUGUST 1944 Amateur clubs [Continued from page 328] eighth year of activity. Werner Von Bergen. ACL, is the current president, assisted by Walter P. Koechel, ACL, vicepresident, and J. Rodney Adams, secretary treasurer. Films seen on late Passaic programs include From Seed to Shelves, a four reel, 8mm. color record of Victory gardening, by George Merz, ACL, of Allwood, and Eighteenth Century Life in Colonial W illiamsburg, a 16mm. sound Kodachrome production of the Eastman Kodak Company. Kansas City Sees Members' and guest films featured on late programs of the Kansas City (Mo.) Amateur Movie Makers include Down Where The North Begins, 16mm. sound Kodachrome from the Coordinator of InterAmerican Affairs; Missouri in the Fall, by Lyle Cooke, ACL; Six Songs in Color, by Dr. Herbert Rinkel, ACL ; A Rationed Holiday and Land of Enchantment, by Clarence Simpson, ACL, of the city's Nelson Art Gallery; Around The World, a feature length pre war travel record, by Earl H. Ebert. Gale H. Curtright. ACL, former Movie Makers correspondent for the club, has resigned to accept a lieutenant's commission in the United States Naval Reserve. His duties are being taken over by Mrs. Ben Barnhart. Seventh for Long Beach A sala social meeting, featuring a mammoth birthday cake and a selected screen program, marked the recent seventh anniversary of the Long Beach Cinema Club, in Southern California. Among the films presented were Horseback Holiday, bv Warren Nash; Vacation Wonderland, by Forrest Kellogg, ACL; Unexpected Escort, by Clarence N. Aldrich, ACL. Tri-City screens Trees> by Dr A1 bert N. Mueller, ACL, and Virginia, by Tom Griberg, ACL. winners in a late contest conducted by the Tri-City Cinema Club, were the features of a recent meeting held in Rock Island, 111. Pictures presented at other gatherings include Gulls, by C. B. Paul; Back To The Soil, Ten Best award winner by George Mesaros. ACL, from the League's Club KEEP FLAG CLEAR In footage of the Flag, which is designed to make the Flag the center of interest, be careful not to have objects between it and the camera, which would obscure any portion of the national emblem. In shots of parades, of course, the flags will be incidents; when the Flag itself is the scene's subject, it should be shown clear of obstructions. Library; Brookfield Zoo, Shaw's Gardens and The Chrysanthemum Show, by A. R. Brun; Yosemite Picture Book, by Roger Spitznas; Air Show, by Mr. Griberg; Gasparilla Parade in Florida, by Georgia First, ACL. Movies for Metro Happy Go Lucky Mexico, a feature length travel study by Julian Gromer, was presented by Mrs. Gromer at a late meeting of the Metro Movie Club of River Park, in Chicago. Other films seen on the club screen include Florida and the East Coast, by Charles Fowler; Yank Invasion of Decatur, by L. M. Jacobsen. Max Levy, mentioned erroneously by this department in May as a member of the city's South Side Cinema Club, has been identified for us by M. J. Wright, secretary, as a member of the Metro Club. Analysis for Edison A well rounded program of film analysis was staged at a late meeting of the Edison Camera Club, ACL, in Chicago. Members' films offered for screening were reviewed by L. C. Hammack (covering 8mm work) and Isidore Vise, ACL (covering 16mm.) from the neighboring Chicago Cinema Club, followed with a reading by Carl J. Radin, cine chairman, of The Unlucky Thirteen, a service sheet on film faults issued by the Amateur Cinema League. A screening of Western Wildlife, by Frank E. Gunnell, FACL. as an example of good amateur film making, rounded out the evenina. Guest films seen by the Edison unit have included Sunday Afternoon Safari and Land of the Habitant, by Arthur H. Elliott, ACL, of the Metro Movie Club of River Park, and Big Game Haunts in the Canadian Rockies, by Raymond Matz, president of the Woodlawn Chapter of the Izaak Walton League. Thirteenth for S. F. A thirteenth birthday party, held in the Women's City Club, and an annual outing to the San Francisco Zoo, with headquarters at Monkey Island, have been the most recent activities of the veteran Cinema Club of San Francisco. David Redfield was in charge of the birthday celebration, while Laurence Duggan. ACL, was responsible for the monkeyshines of the picnic. Skis To The Skyland, a production by two members, Richard Leonard and David Bauer, of the Sierra Cinema Club, was a featured screening at a late regular San Francisco meeting, followed by State Capitol, by Leon Gagne. S. R. 0. in Albany The largest au dience of the current Sundays for Soldiers and Civilians crowded the auditorium of the Albany (N. Y.) Institute of History and Art for a recent screening of 18th Century Life in Colonial Williamsburg, presented by the Amateur Motion Picture Society of Albany, ACL. Running 1600 feet of 16mm. sound Kodachrome, the film was produced by the Eastman Kodak Company in collaboration with Colonial Williamsburg, Inc. At an earlier regular meeting of the AMPS, the members heard from Laurin Murray, Arthur Tucker, ACL. and Leo Schaab, guest speakers from the neighboring Cine Group, Schenectady Photographic Society, ACL. Their presentation illustrated the advanced uses of double turntable sound and music accompaniment. Two in Schenectady Family films and travel shooting have been the subjects of a pair of recent meetings of the Cine Group, Schenectady Photographic Society, ACL, in northern New York. Harlan Webber was in charge of the domestic demonstration, assisted by films drawn from his own club and from the neighboring Amateur Motion Picture Society of Albany, ACL. These were A Garden Wedding, by Dr. C. W. Woodall; Lemonade, Inc., by Arthur A. Merrill, ACL; Good Old Summertime, by Arthur O'Keefe; and unnamed footage by Lawrence Gifford and Arthur Kemnitzer. Harry M. Jacobs presided over the travel symposium, using in demonstration Mayan Indian Life in Guatemala, by Hoyland Bettinger: Daytona Beach, by J. Stanford Smith; Points West, by E. H. MacMullen, ACL. For New York 8's Fine films from everywhere continue to be the program fare served to members of the New York 8mm. Motion Picture Club, meeting monthly in New York City's Hotel Pennsylvania. Holiday With The Heavers, a 1943 Honorable Mention award winner by Dr. W. Lynwood Heaver, ACL, of White Plains. N. Y., topped a recent program, which also presented How Time Flies, a child film by Fred Evans, of Los Angeles. At a later gathering, the members saw V For Vacation, by C. William Wade. jr.. ACL, of North Hollywood. Calif.: Bohemian Baloney, by Werner Henze. of St. Louis, Mo.; In Our Garden, Cat Tales and Happy Landing, by Mildred Caldwell, ACL, of Long Beach, Calif. COLOR LANDSCAPES The beautiful green landscape that promises to be so delightful a shot in Kodachrome will turn out as a confused green mass on the screen, unless there are definite color contrasts in it, provided by other strong colors, or unless there are prominent forms — such as trees, fences or buildings — to break up the monotonous overall green that in nature is so lovely.