Movie Makers (Jan-Dec 1949)

©CI B 218 0 3a MOVIE MAKERS 399 How to Become a Maxim Award Winner The trophy pictured above represents the Hiram Percy Maxim Memorial Award — the highest international honor that can be bestowed on an amateur motion picture. Each year since 1937, the staff of MOVIE MAKERS magazine has picked the Maxim Award winner from the previously selected Ten Best Amateur Films of that year. This year's Maxim Award winner and the Ten Best Amateur Films of 1949 will be announced in MOVIE MAKERS for December. As always, the story of the top amateur films will be a fascinating one, full of insights on what makes a movie out of a lot of shots, on what raises random footage to a work of art, on what can make essentially static material come to life. We can't guarantee results — but this article may help you to become a winner of the Hiram Percy Maxim Award. It can show you the sort of material that makes great movies. It can show you new and different ways of treating that material. . . . Above all, it will give you a fresh picture of the sort of thing that other movie makers around the world are doing in our field. Yes, you'll learn a lot about movie making — in MOVIE MAKERS for December (If your local photographic dealer doesn't handle MOVIE MAKERS, ask him to write us for a sample copy and full details.) Or subscribe direct for only $3 a year by writing MOVIE MAKERS 420 Lexington Ave., New York 17, N. Y. IN HOME MOVIES ... the Heart of a perfect picture is a Kern-Paillard lens Standard of Quality and Precision the World Over. Made by the manufacturers of the world-famous Kern Microscope, KernPaillard Cine lenses are designed and constructed by Swiss precision craftsmen . . . there is nothing finer in the home movie field. Every Kern-Paillard lens is fully color corrected, specially coated, in focusing mount. Built-in lens shade, except the 16mm telephoto. Prices include Federal tax. FOR BOLEX H-16 CAMERA Switar 1" f/1.4 $183.75. Finest speed lens for 16mm cameras. Cuts sharp from corner to corner of frame. Automatic depth of focus scale, micrometer click-stops. The NEW Pizar 1" f/1.5 $97.00 (Introductory price). Sister to the Switar with the same superb optical characteristics. Corrected to f/1.5, without depth of focus scale. Equals the Switar in all other respects. Yvar 15mm f/2.8 (Wide Angle) $78.75. Gives excellent definition even at full aperture; 60% greater field than 1" lenses. Yvar 3" f/2.5 $128.34. Fastest 3" telephoto lens. "C" Mount for Bolex and other cameras, f/2.5 aperture gives excellent results under adverse light conditions. Micrometer click-stops. FOR BOLEX H-8 and other CAMERAS Switar y2" f/1.5 $160.42. Finest and fastest 8mm speed lens made. It gives the 8mm user a quality picture never deemed possible on 8mm film, in color or black and white. Has automatic depth of focus scale, micrometer click-stops. Yvar 25mm f/2.5 (Telephoto) $68.25. A pre cisely built medium telephoto lens witli exceptional speed. Excellent for outdoor sports and indoor portrait work. Yvar 36mm f/2.8 (Telephoto) $89.54. A longer range telephoto for close-ups of distant subjects. Takes pictures that rival 16mm telephoto shots in detail and quality. Yvar l/2" f/2.8 (For Bolex L-8 only) $49.55. Especially designed for 8mm use. Precision-built, its special optical system insures pin-point detail. Ask your photo dealer to explain details on Kern-Paillard lenses which are designed especially for the Bolex camera. Kern-Paillard precision lenses PAILLARD PRODUCTS, Inc., 265 Madison Avenue, New York 16, N. Y.