Movie Makers (Jan-Dec 1949)

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Y. -wwMiiVa FILMS Thrilling Home Movies of all types. Send only One Dollar for Super Short Subject "EXCITING STARS". Order NOT from Dept. MM. EXCITING FILMS ^1071 El Centro, Hollywood, Calif } Check Size: 8mm □ 16mm D Sound □ mmmtmmtmmmmmtmmm Movie makers contemplating a visit to the British Isles this summer will be interested in a report we have from Esther Cooke, ACL, of Albany, N. Y., who passed a good part of last summer in England and Scotland. It is Mrs. Cooke's recommendation that visiting filmers plan on taking out membership in the Institute of Amateur Cinematographers, ACL, a service organization somewhat similar to the ACL but with headquarters in England. Annual dues are ten shillings, sixpence, or about $2.20 at the British exchange rate. For this you will receive the Institute's quarterly publication, individual advice on movie matters and, of prime importance to the tourist, the IAC's Blue Book membership card. This latter, reports Mrs. Cooke, considerably aids a visitor in taking pictures of subjects normally difficult of approach. Complete data on IAC membership may be obtained on application to Leslie M. Froude, secretary, Institute of Amateur Cinematographers, 8 West Street, Epsom, Surrey, England. Melvin W. Swansick, ACL, who gave you Hot Shot and High Iron in our June, 1948, Movie Makers, has not been idle since then in pursuing his favorite film fare — which, you may remember, was railroading. Mr. Swansick now has two new huff-and-puff pictures to his credit — Sheep Train and Railroading on the Midland Terminal. The first film is a study of one of the West's vanishing narrow gauge hauls, while the second is a documentary record of the historic Midland Terminal Railroad, a line which banked its last firebox only last month. Mr. Swansick, who works in 8mm., will welcome hearing from other rail filming fans. He may be reached at '3116 Quitman Street, Denver, Colo. Norma W. Brackett, ACL, is another 8mm. filmer who admits to a fondness for the choo-choos. But with her the subject is on a scale even smaller than Mr. Swansick's narrow gaugers. The scale is, in fact, 1 to 87, and her movie is a strangely fascinating study of live-steam locomotives done in model. Entitled New England Live Steamers, Inc., it portrays the intent and eager activities of a railroad model club, as the members guide their galloping treasures over the tiny roadbed. Just to show you that all railroad film fans do not hail from the historic West, Mrs. Brackett pursues her pets in South Braintree, Mass. This note may not sell you on the advisability of getting a tripod, but it certainly adds a new reason to an old argument. Anyway, it was a bright Saturday afternoon on the island of Honshu, and Colonel W. K. Payne, ACL, of our Jap occupation forces, was out on a filming foray to nearby Mount Agato. A fine hundred feet of color film were already in the bag when suddenly it happened. The Colonel stepped down from a temple porch, set his right foot on a rolling stone — and broke two bones in his ankle. The jeep was three miles away, at the mountain's base. It was then that the Colonel's tripod saved the day — and possibly his foot. Removing his camera from the flat surface of the pan head, he simply used the tripod as an improvised and quite successful crutch. Lewis J. Rasmussen of Kenosha, Wise, stopped by the office recently, replete with a rucksack bulging with sealskin, knee-high boots, a white fox scarf, a carved ivory statuette of a polar bear and other oddments. These are, more or less, properties with Mr. Rasmussen in his new profession of travel filmer and lecturer, a calling in which he is enthusiastically assisted by his wife, Betty Rasmussen. No. 1 attraction in their burgeoning program is the 1600 foot 16mm. Kodachrome, Arctic Holiday, a fact film of life among the little known Caribou Eskimo. Tucked away from everywhere on the northwest shores of Hudson's Bay, the tribe is named for the animal which is their sole source of meat, skin clothing and footwear. Movie Makers announces with fraternal sympathy the death in January of Charles B. Phelps, jr., president of the Photographic Society of America. He had held that office since 1945 and would have retired from it at the Society's coming annual meeting in October.