Movie Makers (Jan-Dec 1949)

404 NOVEMBER 1949 U. S. Pat. No. 2260363 GOERZ AMERICAN APOGOR F:2.3 the movie lens with microscopic definition successful cameramen have been waiting for— A new six element high quality lens for the 16 and 35 mm film camera. Corrected for all aberration at full opening, giving highest definition in black-&white and color. Made by skilled technicians with many years of optical training. Fitted to precision focusing mount which moves the lens smoothly without rotating elements or shifting image. This lens comes in C mount for 16 mm cameras. Fitting te other cameras upon special order. Sizes available now: 35 and 50 mm uncoatcd and 75 mm coated. Write for prices, giving your dealer's name. *m GOERZ AMERICAN OPTICAL COMPANY OFFICE AND FACTORY 317 EAST 34 ST., NEW YORK 16, N. Y. MM-11 This department has been added to Movie Makers because you, the reader, want it. We welcome it to our columns. This is your place to sound off. Send us your comments, complaints or compliments. Address: The Reader Writes, Movie Makers, 420 Lexington Ave., New York 17, N. Y. ACL KODACHROME LEADER Gentlemen: After many years of personal movie making, I have finally decided to join the ACL. Enclosed you will find $6.00 for membership and $1.50 for the wonderful ACL leader, which enthralled me when I read about it in Movie Makers. I deem it a privilege to become a member of the League. Joseph J. Marino, ACL East Boston, Mass. Dear Sirs: I have received my ACL color leader, which I think is really a fine job. I am proud to splice it to one of my films. A. Theo Roth, ACL San Francisco, Calif. Dear ACL: Thanks for the fine service rendered League members in your new Kodachrome leader. Please send me 'one for my 8mm. projector. I am looking forward to the time we have a button to wear on our coat. Charles J. Phaneuf, ACL Newtonville, Mass. Dear Mr. Moore: I received the new ACL leader the other day and like it very much. Yahoudi, or whoever made it, did a grand job and is certainly to be commended. Now the next step is a button or other ACL insignia. Markley L. Pepper, ACL Denver, Colo. Dear Sirs: Exactly three quarters of an hour ago I picked up my first copy of Movie Makers at a news-stand and read most of it on my way home on the subway. Now I submit a money order for $10.50 — $6.00 for membership in the League and $4.50 for three ACL color leaders in 16mm. size. For a long time 1 have been looking for a magazine like yours, devoted wholly to amateur movies. Marshall Gill, ACL New York City Gentlemen: For quite a while I had been planning to become a member of the ACL, having been a subscriber to Movie Makers for years. Now I have decided to put the whole armor on and join the organization to boost such a worthy and interesting cause. I must admit your advertisement about the colored membership leader had something to do with increasing my enthusiasm. Let's hope a pin or button will be forthcoming. Evan P. Hassinger, ACL Middleburg, Pa. HAWAII TO SOUTH AFRICA Gentlemen: In your September column you printed a letter from Miss P. M. Speight, assistant city librarian, The Public Library, Johannesburg, South Africa, in which she asks for four issues of Movie Makers published in the year 1947. I am pleased to report that I have three of the issues she asked for: July, August and September. It gives me great pleasure to forward them to her today. Archibald S. Guild Honolulu, Hawaii QUICK REPLY Dear Mr. Charbonneau: Thanks for the quick reply to my inquiries on filming New York City. Between your suggestions and the helpful service sheets on the subject, it should be difficult to go wrong. In any case, the ACL Film Review department will have another job on its hands when the film is completed. William H. Ashcroft, ACL Auburn, Maine If, by chance, some other ACL members may not have received "quick replies" recently, they should blame the Ten Best contest. The League's staff was closeted in the projection room from 1:00 to 5:00 p.m. for three solid weeks preceding the October 15 closing date. There will be detailed data on this landslide response in December Movie Makers. TRAIN TRIPS ARE FUN Dear Reader Writes: The article, Train Trips are Fun, by Helen E. King, ACL, in September Movie Makers interested me very much indeed. The Pacific Railroad Society, of which I have been a member for two years, is a club interested in the railroads of the country. We have had six rail-fan trips so far this year, with member and non-member guests running from 150 to 375 on each trip. Although we are not a camera club (as in the case of Walla Walla), you would think our gatherings were a convention of photographers. Which leads me to invite any ACL members living in the Los Angeles area