Movie Makers (Jan-Dec 1949)

343 ATTN.: CLUB PROGRAM CHAIRMEN! Here are the films, slides, lectures and demonstrations offered you by the photo industry IN an effort to itemize and correlate the program aids offered amateur movie clubs by firms in the photographic industry, Movie Makers this summer asked that industry the following four questions: 1. Do you have for free-loan distribution to amateur movie clubs motion pictures or slides on your product or service? If so, please list. 2. Do you have for mail distribution to amateur movie clubs prepared lectures, with or without illustrations? If so, please list. 3. Are you prepared, either from your home office or through district representatives, to put on demonstrations of your product or service at movie club meetings? Is this service on a national or limited regional basis. Please itemize. 4. To whom should movie club program chairmen apply to take advantage of your cine club services? These questions were addressed to 141 manufacturers, distributors, retail dealers, film libraries, film producers and others serving the hobby of amateur motion pictures. From them, Movie' Makers received a total of 18 replies, of which 11 were positive in varying degrees, with 7 replies wholly negative. The results follow, itemized by numbers which correspond with the four queries above. Negative sections of otherwise positive replies are not listed. AMPRO CORPORATION 3. "Ampro is prepared through its local dealers to put on demonstrations of products at movie clubs and the like." 4. Apply: local Ampro dealer. BELL & HOWELL COMPANY 3. "We put on Bell & Howell equipment demonstrations at movie club meetings in the Chicago area." 4. Apply: Manager, Personal Equipment Division, Bell & Howell Co., 7100 McCormick Road, Chicago 45, 111. DE JUR-AMSCO CORPORATION 3. "Dejur-Amsco is prepared to put on demonstrations of its equipment on a limited regional basis, covering the Atlantic coast from New England to Baltimore." 4. Apply: Jack J. Kusher, General Sales Manager, Dejur-Amsco Corp., Northern Boulevard & 45th Street, Long Island City 1, N. Y. EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY 1. Yes; see No. 2 following. 2. The Eastman Kodak Company has for distribution on a free-loan basis nearly a dozen prepared lectures on various phases of photography, illustrated with 2 by 2 inch slides. Although the majority of them are aimed at the still camera user, the following should be of interest to movie makers. Night Photography: The lecture opens with examples of outdoor night pictures, for which exposure times are given; the second part describes the various lighting setups and pictures possible indoors. Time 35 minutes; 47 slides. Filters for Picture Improvement: The entire lecture is based upon the effects obtained with the K-2, G and A filters and the Kodak Pola-Screen. Of these, only the last named can be used with color film. Time 30 minutes; 56 slides. Tips on Kodachrome and Kodacolor : This illustrated talk stresses those points of technique especially important in getting the best results with these materials — light quality, lighting contrast, exposure and composition. Time 10 minutes; 41 slides. 3. "We have a service for putting on demonstrations and talks by a few of our men. The number available, however, is very limited and since our program in this connection is on a nationwide basis, our plan is to cooperate with the various clubs in an area and to throw open the meeting to the public, in order to avoid any discrimination between the various groups interested in hearing the talk on photography." 4. Apply: Camera Club and School Service, Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester 4, N. Y., for both the prepared, illustrated lectures and the inperson demonstrations by Kodak representatives. ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA FILMS 3. "Encyclopaedia Britannica Films does not have any specially prepared programs for amateur movie clubs. However, we do have representatives throughout the country who are able to put on demonstrations whenever it seems important to do so." 4. Apply: Laurin H. Healy, Director of Public Relations, Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, Inc., Wilmette, 111. GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY 1. "In connection with the sale of General Electric (PR-1) exposure meters, we have just produced a 16mm. 440 foot black and white sound film titled The Meter With a Memory." 4. Apply: local G.E. photo dealer or nearest General Electric office. ARTHUR H. HART 1. "We do not have at the present time any movies or slides on our four lens turrets, var-area finders and other camera adaptations, though these are planned for the near future." 3. "From time to time personal appearance lectures and demonstrations can be made before movie clubs. However, these are more or less on a local basis and cannot extend outside the state." 4. Apply: Arthur H. Hart, 2125— 32nd Avenue, San Francisco 16, Calif. HUGO MEYER & COMPANY, Inc. 1. Yes; see No. 3 following. 3. "Hugo Meyer & Company has been giving free lectures to all types of camera clubs in the New York metropolitan area on lenses, range finders and general optics. This service is on a limited regional basis, as it includes the presentation of a 16mm. sound film." 4. Apply: Erwin Muscat, Hugo Meyer & Company, Inc., 39 West 60th Street, New York 23, N. Y. MOVIEVOX COMPANY 3. "We are featuring something rather special for the forthcoming club season. To any club which will allow us the major portion of one program, we will send one of our motion picture engineers who will lecture on cinematography. There is no obligation to the club. The only consideration we ask is to be allowed to demonstrate our Movievox sound system during the meeting." 4. Apply: J. F. Bailey, Movievox Company, 1113 Pleasanton Road, San Antonio 4, Texas. JAMES H. SMITH & SONS CORP. 2. "We will have ready for early fall distribution a new and instructive circular on lighting which will be of [Continued on page 350]