Movie Makers (Jan-Dec 1949)

MOVIE MAKERS 129 CloseupS— What filmers are doing EVEN light Part Three of the fourth annual Tops In Photography show, held last month at New York's Hotel Statler, was a screening of motion pictures by members of the Metropolitan Motion Picture Club, ACL. Seen on the program were Autumn, by Martin E. Drayson ; Little Intruder, by Joseph J. Harley, FACL, and The Mountains, by Frank E. Gunnell, FACL, president of the club. Mr. Gunnell was in general charge of the film program, assisted by John R. Hefele, ACL, Raymond Moss, ACL, and Mr. Harley. The Tops show is a feature of the Metropolitan Camera Club Council, an association of 100 still camera clubs in the New York metropolitan area. If you go to Germany this summer and find them using American business methods, it will be the responsibility largely of Anthony L. Cope, ACL, an instructor in same at John Hay High School, in Cleveland, Ohio. Mr. Cope was the producer of Business Champions, an 1100 foot 16mm. sound on Kodachrome picture which won Honorable Mention in our 1948 selection of the Ten Best. The film, he now reports, is being used by American civilian education officers in the U. S. Zone of occupied Germany. There probably could not be two more different films on the same general subject than a pair we reviewed recently (and separately, of course) here at headquarters. Their subjects were homes for needy or orphaned children. Their locales were war-torn Chungking. China, and the svelte suburbia of Radburn, N. J. Mrs. J. R. Saunders, ACL, was the producer of the Chinese picture, as a part of her work as a missionary for the Methodist Board of Foreign Missions. Entitled Destination Chungking, it portrays in 400 feet of 16mm. silent Kodachrome the welfare activities of Chiang Memorial Children's Village. It will be used in fund raising efforts, a function at which it has met with success in the Far East. Dear Mom is the title of the contrasting picture, running 800 feet of 16mm. sound Kodachrome. Produced by Robert F. Gowen, ACL, of Ossining, N. Y., it records the rehabilitation of boys from broken homes at Bonnie Brae School, amid the rolling meadows of south Jersey. These boys are, perhaps, as spiritually unhappy as the Chinese kids. But they certainly are not as undernourished nor as underprivileged. From their halftimbered English cottages to their tiled outdoor swimming pool, they never (as the GI's used to say) had it so good. Breaking in last season with a lecture and screening of his Yucatan Adventure on the Wednesday evening programs of the Milwaukee Public Museum, LeRoy Segall, ACL, has had a return booking this winter with his most recent travel study, Guatemala. Mr. Segall, who is also active in the Milwaukee County Association for Disabled, is staging a series of screenings for the association in support of its annual sale of Easter seals. Bringing you Earl Clark, author of Exposure is an Estimate in this issue, is in a way a tenth anniversary. For it was in 1939 that he soared out of the Canadian blue with Then Came The King, as stimulating a Ten Best award winner as you'd want to see. Mr. Clark was a dairy salesman in those days, and he had edited his film entirely by guess and by goodness, not then having the benefit of either a viewer or projector. Today he is a director and producer of Associated Screen News, of Canada, a job in which he has produced over thirty films in the last seven years. He now has a projector, all right, and an editing viewer and a wife and three kids. The eldest, Warren, is planning on being a cameraman. . . . Over my dead body, says Clark. for em all? EARL CLARK, author of Exposure is an Estimate, on location in Canada for A.S.N. Try G-E reflector PHOTOSPOTS RSP-2 1.20 EACH plus tax Because G-E Reflector Photospots pack a punch that gives you the same light and coverage as the RFL-2 . . . at 3 times the distance. That means more even light when your picture "field of action" is as deep as in this shot. Used closer, their narrow beam is grand for "spot" effects. Get a pair and try 'em in Triangle Lighting for better movies. Remember . . . for any photographic purpose G-E LAMPS GENERAL® ELECTRIC