Movie Makers (Jan-Dec 1947)

38 JANUARY 1947 D D THE TELEPHOTOLENS F0R8&16mm.M0V!ECA!V!ERAS PRICE $21.00 C FREE descriptive folders are available. Distributed by CAMERA SPECIALTY CO., Inc. SO WEST 29TH ST. NEW YORK 1. N. Y. D D P for Fun at Home 16mm SOUND FEATURE PROGRAMS Complete with Short $5 Send Today For NEW 1946-47 Catalog Free! RENTAL LIBRARY 288 Main Street Hackensack, N. J. RIGER'S THEY'RE BACK AGAIN! MOVIE MAKERS offers an attractive, black fabrikoid, gold lettered binder for your copies of this magazine. A metal device enables you to insert and remove the magazines easily. Price $1.75 Send your order accompanied by remittance to MOVIE MAKERS 420 Lexington Ave., New York 17, N. Y. STOP "APOLOGIZING" IN '47 FOR YOUR MOVIE TITLES Write today for a FREE A-to-Z Sample Title Teit Kit. Make titles that are different . . . better and tailored to your taste. Try our method . . . FREE. COMPLETE COLOR OR B.&W. OUTFIT $6.50 A-to-Z MOVIE ACCESSORIES 175 Fifth Avenue Dept. M New York 10, N. Y. Handle a Movie Camera Like a Professional Work under professional cameramen successful both in 16mm & 35mm movies. Film studio conditions. Courses in Camera & Lighting, Cutting and Editing, Writing, Acting and Directing. G.l.'s welcome. Write or phsne St. 3-9444-1 to 7 p.m. NEW INSTITUTE 29 Flatbush Avenue, B'klyn 17, N. Y. this veteran unit were installed at the club's annual dinner, held in the Illinois Athletic Club, with the following slate: Arthur C. Kadow, president; Leon F. Urbain, vicepresident; Lydia O'Connor, secretary; Sherman Arpp, treasurer. Serving with them on the board of directors are Norman Hallock, Arthur Josephson, Mrs. Rae Osgood, Mrs. George L. Kirk and Mr. Ludtke. Seen in Milwaukee Beautiful Colorado, running 400 feet of 8mm. Kodachrome and produced by Fred W. Kennert, was featured at a late meeting of the Amateur Movie Society of Milwaukee, ACL. Mr. Kennert also screened some experimental 8mm. Ansco Color footage, reperforated from 16mm. stock and home processed in his own darkroom. Seen at an earlier gathering were Moon Over Sun Valley and Nature's Art Gallery, filmed by Vincent Hunter, ACL, for the Union Pacific Railroad Company, and Cruise on Lake Michigan, picturing a trip on the Milwaukee Clipper Ship. Sound for South Side A discussion and demonstration of sound accompaniment with the double turntable was presented by Stanley Sims as the highlight of a late fall meeting of the South Side Cinema Club, in Chicago. Members' films seen at the same time included submissions by Carl Nelson, Oscar Bergman, Fred Kessler, Bernard Seaman, Edmund Turner and Dr. R. E. Gerstenkorn. South Side's annual contest will conclude on March 1. Winner at St. Louis A screening of While The Earth Remaincth, 1945 Maxim Award winner by Frank E. Gunnell, FACL, distributed from the Amateur Cinema League's Club Film Library, marked a recent meeting of the Amateur Motion Picture Club of St. Louis, ACL. The clinical section of the programs presented Werner Henze, ACL, and Curtis E. Talbot in a discussion and demonstration of interior lighting, illustrated by their own film, Light and Shadows. Hawaii, by Ira Hicks, round, ed out the screen fare. Council in Michigan The fall meeting of the Michigan Council of Amateur Movie Clubs was held late last year, beginning with an outing at Yankee Springs State Park, near Wayland, and ending with dinner and a business meeting in that community's American Legion hall. The clubs present were the Grand Rapids Movie Club, the Kalamazoo Movie Club, ACL, and the Muskegon Movie Club, with Kalamazoo taking first award in inter-club competition for its production, Bootlegger's Luck. Oklahoma active The Movie Makers Club of Oklahoma City, which closed for the duration of the war, has recently been reactivated and is now meeting regularly on third Fridays in the city's Chamber of Commerce quarters. Interested amateurs in the community are invited to visit at a meeting or to get in touch with the club's secretary, Mary Francis, at 312 Fidelity Building. F. L. Glasgow, president, and F. P. Kaspar, vicepresident, comprise the other newly elected officers. Seen on the club's screen at a late November meeting were Midsummer Dream, by Virginia Adams; Vacation, by Marion Record, and The Specialist, by Mr. Glasgow. GuestS at Albany Members of the Amateur Motion Picture Society of Albany, ACL, were hosts to a delegation from the Berkshire Museum Amateur Movie Club, ACL, of Pittsfield, Mass., at a recent gathering in New York's capital. The guest program included Blessed Event, by Fred Bufe, ACL; Berkshire Skaters, by Mabel Bradway, ACL; New York to Paris in Twelve Minutes, by Max Sauter, ACL; Poestenkill Falls, by Bartlett Hendricks, and Charming Lenox in the Berkshires, by Benjamin M. Walker, ACL. Wired for SOUnd A demonstration of the Pierce magnetized wire recorder by Eugene P. Stephens, of the Bell & Howell Company, was the highlight of a recent meeting of the Washington (D.C.) Society of Amateur Cinematographers. Also presented by Mr. Stephens were Secrets of Superiority, How Movies Move and Talk and Golden Mountains, from the Filmosound Library. La Casa rolls onward T h e a p ■ parently inexhaustible supply of films produced by members of La Casa Movie Club, ACL, rolls onward across the club's screen, at third Monday gatherings in the Alhambra (Calif.) Y.M.C.A. Presented at late fall screenings have been Maytime in the Sierra, by R. Kielsmeier; Sail Mobiling by Ralph C. Willhoff; Desert Wildflowers, by George H. Kohler; When Jimmie Comes Marching Home, by John Cook ; A Little Desert, a Little Nebraska, by Dr. D. G. Baird; The Sierra, by F. A. Carnahan, ACL; Mexico, and Apple Blossom Time, by R. A. Battles; Summer Wanderings, by Charles Manahan; Grand Tetons and Yellowstone, by John H. Clay; San Diego Zoo, by Irwin K. Kendall and Central and South America, by C. K. LeFiell.