Movie Makers (Jan-Dec 1949)

MOVIE MAKERS Victorian winners Awards for the 1948 Five Best Films have just been announced by the Victorian Amateur Cine Society, ACL, of Australia. Dr. F. A. Bellingham took top honors with a fine fishing film, Some That Did Not Get Away. Reg Smith captured second and third places with The Three Trees and Going Places and Doing Things. Fourth position was filled by Ken C. Rankine with Beyond the Blue Horizon, and fifth position by 0. H. Jones with Albury Beautiful. All were 16mm. color. New in New York The ManBrook Amature Photoplay Club, made up of residents in both Manhattan and Brooklyn, was organized recently in the New York metropolitan area. Aim of the new organization is to produce 16mm. photoplays, both in the dramatic and documentary fields. Leo M. Reffi is president, with Thomas Gannon as secretary. Joseph Gannon and Mary and Ruth Mundy are active in planning the club's future productions. The club is anxious to have others join who are interested in the club's program, especially cameramen and technicians. Mr. Gannon may be reached at 94 Doscher Street. Brooklyn, for further details. San Francisco session A discussion and demonstration of projectors was presented members of the Cinema Club of San Francisco recently by Ralph V. Butterworth. He pointed out essential factors to look for in purchasing such a machine for home use. Larry Duggan, ACL, screened his European Kaleidoscope, a 16mm. color film of a trip made last year. Headlining the program was Silver City, a rousing Western on 16mm. color sound film by Ray Dakker, who also outlined plans for his next epic of the wide open spaces, Dark Timber. Hamilton ballots The Hamilton Amateur Movie Makers, of Ontario, Canada, have chosen their new officers for the current year. Gerald F. Robinson, ACL, became president, Harry Beube, vicepresident, and Mrs. R. Britton, secretary-treasurer. W. J. Hill was named program chairman and E. C. Cope the membership chairman. Brooklyn contest Results of the annual contest among members of the Brooklyn Amateur Cine Club, ACL, have recently been announced, as follows: in the 16mm. class, Bert Seckendorf was awarded first prize for Sands of Time. Second prize went to Arthur Gross. ACL, for Under the Florida Sun, with *&«* 155 C* BINE1 SL«> ALL STEEL FIREPROOF INDEXED PRACTICAL EFFICIENT O File Drawer for individual slide holders . . . Model SF-5. FOR ALL 2" x 2 SLIDES • File Drawer tor "Blocked" unit slides . . . Model SF-S-S. FILMSTRIP CABINET MF-6 Similar to Slide Files . . . has 6 drawers, adjustable dividers. Holds over 300 regular Vh" 35 mm filmstrip cans . . . overall size 15" wide; 12" deep; 13" liigh. Files readymounts, glass, etc., heavy gauge welded construction thruout ... 5 drawers, instant selection. Overall size 15" wide; 12" deep; 13" high. Olive-Grey enamel baked on. Polished chrome trim. Model SF-5 holds 1250 slides (2500 readymounts) Model SF 5S holds approx. 2500 slides (5000 readymounts) New 76mm Catalog No. 77 Now Ready 16 MM EQUIPMENT Film Cabinets • Power Rewinds • Splicers • Film Cleaners • Projection Tables • Reels— Cans • Complete Line. 427 WEST 42 ST.» PRODUCTS CORP. • NEW YORK. N.Y. KODACHROME DUPLICATES lie PER FOOT 8MM. and 16MM. FINEST QUALITY Mail Orders Accepted Hollywood 16mm. Industries, Inc. 6060 HOLLYWOOD BLVD. AT GOWER HOLLYWOOD 28, CALIF. GUY HASELTON KODACHROME '00 ft. "Rose Parade," 16mm $30.00 340 ft. "Rose Parade," 16mm 51.00 (The above, in SOUND: $37.50; $64.00) Cmm, 100 ft. "Rose Parade" 15.00 120 ft. "Boulder Dam," 16mm 18.00 430 ft. "Glacier Park" 60.00 140 ft. "Glacier Park Animals" 21.00 120 ft. 'Canadian Moose" 18.00 7936 Santa Monica Blvd., Hollywood 46, Calif. STOP APOLOGIZING FOR YOUR MOVIE TITLES Write today for a FREE A-to-Z Sample Title Test Kit. Make titles that are different . . . better and ailored to your taste. Try our method . . . FBFE. COMPLETE COLOR OR B.&W. OUTFIT $6.50 A-to-Z MOVIE ACCESSORIES 175 Fifth Avenue Dept. M New York 10, N. Y. Easy • Quick • Convenient MOVIES BY MAIL from our FILM RENTAL LIBRARY FREE! our 1949 Sound movie catalog, hot off the press. Feature programs as low as $3.75. Write to Dept. R CAMERA STORES PEERLESS FINEST HOME MOVIE SELECTION 138 E.44th St.,New York 17.N.Y. 95 AT DEALERS EVERYWHERE Mow, you can make fine, lively enlargement prints from your 8MM or 16MM movie films. CINELARGER copies B & W or color movies on to B & W film and color movies on to color film. CINELARGER uses #620 roll film which, after exposure is developed and printed in the usual way.8MM g'ves 16 negatives— 16MM gives 8 negatives. Enlargement up to 8 x 10. Cutting movie film unnecessary. Write for ///urfrafed fo/der ^TESTRITE INSTRUMENT CO., Inc. NEW YORK 3, N. Y.