Movie Makers (Jan-Dec 1947)

Record Details:

Title:
Movie Makers
Date:
Jan-Dec 1947
Publisher:
Amateur Cinema League, inc.
Volume:
Movie Makers (Jan-Dec 1947)
Leaf #:
00068
Language:
English
Collection:
Non-Theatrical Film
Format:
Periodicals
Contributor:
Library of Congress, MBRS, Moving Image Section
Sponsor:
Library of Congress, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Movie Makers, the official publication of the Amateur Cinema League, documented and championed home movies and production by local film clubs. During 27 years of publication, Movie Makers provided extensive coverage of the growth of 16mm, the availability of Hollywood films to the home, filmmaking style, amateur production, and color cinematography. -- David Pierce, 2013
Date Added:
September 21, 2023
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64 AMATEUR CLUBS What organized groups are doing everywhere JAMES W. MOORE, ACL * The presentation of the Hiram Percy Maxim Award, 1946, to Ralph E. Gray, FACL, by Percy Maxim Lee, FACL, donor, at the screening at the Hartford Cinema Club. Seen in Chicago Members' and guest films have been mingled on late fall and winter programs of the Metro Movie Club of River Park, in Chicago. Among the pictures presented were first films by Don Barber, Jesse Rupany, Charles Henry, ACL, A. E. Matson and George Held. ACL; The Athabaska Country, by Norman Hallock ; Glimpses of Our National Parks, by W. R. Homan. of the Edison Camera Club; Weekend Vacations and Winter Sports, by Fred Hieber. and American Legion Convention in San Francisco, by Max Levy. Nora Wilson, with color slides of the dunes, and Fred Kessler, with his film. Out East, were featured performers in a guest program given by the Movie and Slide Club of Palmer Park. Winners in Los Angeles Four hundred and seventy five members and guests of the Los Angeles Cinema Club gathered recently for a dinner marking that veteran unit's annual contest and election of officers. Returned unanimously, by viva voce vote, were Alice Claire Hoffman, president; Lorenzo del Riccio, vicepresident, and Jack Shandler, secretary treasurer. City Judge William J. Palmer headed the nominating committee which named this slate. Thirteen films in all were honored in the contest, with only the first three pictures being screened at the dinner gathering. These were Rambling Through British Columbia, by Carl H. Thomsen; Trapper, by Charles J. Ross. ACL. and Rural Vermont, by Mildred Zimmerman, ACL. Other place winners in order were Canadian Wonderland, by William Easley; My Diary, by Wesley Strause; Glacier Park, by Ray McMillan; Hollywood, by Leo Caloia; Ballet on Ice, by Victor Jessen: West Coast, by Robert Ernst; Yosemite, by Jack Staikey; Arizona Welcomes You, by Mrs. E. B. Kellam; Lakes in the High Sierras, by Arthur Sanger, and Old Havana, by Andrew O'Rear, ACL. A distinguished board of judges included Ted Phillips, producer for Burton Holmes Travelogs; Edwin Schallert, drama critic of the Los Angeles Times; Herbert E. Farmer, of the Cinema Workshop, University of Southern California; Karl Freund, cinematographer for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer; Mr. del Riccio. chairman of the club's educational committee, and James H. Mitchell, chairman of the contest committee. Christmas for MM PC There was scarcely room for Santa Claus — and he was authentically bulky, as played by Joseph Samel, ACL — at the recent annual Christmas party of the Metropolitan Motion Picture Club, ACL. gathered in New York City's Pennsylvania Hotel. Kaleidoscopio, 1946 Ten Best winner by Dr. Roberto Machado, of Havana, Cuba, and A Christmas Greeting and Squeaky's Kittens, both by Walter Bergmann, ACL, and the latter a 1946 Ten Best winner, comprised the screen program. George A. Ward, ACL, presented The Christmas Story, a recitation, with special lighting effects by Henry Goebel, ACL. Dine in Omaha There were seventy five members and guests at the recent annual dinner of the Omaha Movie Club, gathered [Continued on page 80] aphs by Frank E. Gunnell, FACL • At Club the left, ACL; at , refreshn the right, lents a Joseph re served to the members and guests attending the annual Christmas party of the Metropolitan Motion Picture Samel, ACL, not padded, carries out the traditional duties of Santa Claus.