Movie Makers (Jan-Dec 1949)

MOVIE MAKERS 171 CloseupS— What filmers are doing delta dollar $aver$i Some 16mm. amateur filmer out in Nassau County, Long Island, has a mighty pleasant movie making opportunity ahead of him this summer — and at absolutely no expense. The pitch is this. The Girl Scouts council there has an attractive summer camp for their attractive young charges, and they feel, with good reason, that an attractive film of it would help the cause along. They'll pay for the film, lights and operating expenses, you chip in your time and talents. Camp is open through July and August. If you're interested, get in touch with Mrs. Donald H. Bowles, at Peacock Lane, Locust Valley, N. Y., or by phone at Glen 4-5547. Maury Kains, ACL, who gives you his ideas on what the well dressed camera should wear (see page 178), has been a Hollywood cameraman for more than thirty years, having worked in regular production, cartoons, trick work and with Technicolor. He is at present engaged in the special effects department of RKO Radio. We cite these facts because we think they are interesting, not because we find them, for the amateur, important in themselves. Frankly, we don't. In general, our experience with Hollywood cameramen as authors has been disappointing. Both their attitude and their ideas have been either too advanced or, by patronizing purpose, too infantile to be of real aid to the personal movie maker. Not so with Maury Kains. There MAURY KAINS, ACL, author of For the Well Dressed Camera, with trophy for magic tricks. is, in our book, a simple, creative practicality about his gadgets which is realistic and refreshing. They are direct answers to direct needs. Like clamping his camera on top of a stepladder, for a tall tripod. The guy, it seems, simply likes to invent things. His No. 1 hobby, for example, is the invention of magic tricks. In fact, that "Oscar" which he is clutching in our illustration has nothing to do with movies. It is, rather, the Talbot Trophy, awarded annually by the Pacific Coast Association of Magicians for originality in the creation of magic. Speaking of Hollywood reminds us to report that Leo J. Heffernan. FACL, of New York City, will be out there soon — courtesy of Paramount Pictures. Here's how . . . It seems that P. P. had whipped up a winsome little souffle called Dream Girl, starring Betty Hutton. Along with it their typewriter tycoons dreamed up a contest for 100 foot amateur films called, of course, A Movie Maker's Dream. Well, when all the dreamlets had been adequately analyzed, Mr. H. turns up ihe winner— Dream Lady. Did you know that wasps, mice and skunks — as well as bears — attack beehives? Well, we didn't; and this was only one of many odd and fascinating facts we learned from a recent screening here of Harmony of the Bees, by C. H. Bacon, ACL, of Victoria, B. C. Running 800 feet of 16mm. sound on Ansco Color, the film is the result of three years of effort on Mr. Bacon's part and, you might say. centuries of disciplined regimen on the part of the bees. The extreme closeups in which the picture abounds were filmed with a homemade extension tube, on which Mr. Bacon mounted his 1 inch f/1.9 lens. Hands-Across-The-Sea-Note: Impressed by our Clinic item on a four-lens turret design for the CineKodak Special (in March Movie Makers), L. A. Danse, Supervisor of Materials and Processes in the Production Engineering Section of General Motors Corporation, in Detroit, has written Dr. S. S. Hayward, ACL, in Johannesburg, South Africa, to ask if he could buy a set of parts. THE BOLSEY CINE-FADER For 8mm and 76mm Cameras This device automatically times, wipes or tades. May also be used on projection lenses to achieve the same results on earlier films. Beautifully designed and made. The Bolsey Cine-Fader will give years of service. 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