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DECEMBER 1949
DW-58
Exposure Meter
See it at your dealer's and judge for yourself ! Here's an outstanding meter priced for everybody 's pocketbook. Precision built by General Electric for lifetime accuracy, the DW-58 makes sure you get correct exposure every time. Mighty handy in the darkroom, too.
Ask Sqnta to tuck a DW-58 in your Christmas stocking. He can get one at all good photo dealers'. General Electric, Schenectady 5, N. Y.
GENERAL
ELECTRIC
THE MAGAZINE FOR 8mm & 16mm FILMERS Published Every Month by AMATEUR CINEMA LEAGUE
Late releases The reader writes Closeups
V December 1949
New 8mm. and 16mm. films 439
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What filmers are doing 448
The Ten Best and the Maxim Memorial Award 451
Movies in color: 1 456
Christmas in capsule William L Lucas 457
Equipment survey: 8 Lighting units 460
Christmas a la carte Sidney Moritz, ACL 462
Choosing your lighting units Dr. Gilbert W. Schwartz, ACL 463
How to place lights News of the industry Eastman House opens Clubs
Annual index Renascence
Charles H. Coles 464
Reports on products 466
467
People, plans and programs 474
476 Editorial 478
Cover photograph: Harold M. Lambert from Frederic Lewis
DON CHARBONNEAU Consultant Editor
JAMES W. MOORE Edifor
JAMES YOUNG Advertising Manager
ANNE YOUNG Production Editor
Vol. 24, No. 12. Published monthly in New York, N. Y., by Amateur Cinema League, Inc. Subscription rates: $3.00 a year, postpaid, in the United States and Possessions and in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Spain and Colonies, Uruguay and Venezuela; S3. SO a year, postpaid, in Canada, Labrador and Newfoundland; other countries $4.00 a year, postpaid; to members of Amateur Cinema League, Inc. $2.00 a year, postpaid; single copies 250 (in U.S.A.). On sale at photographic dealers everywhere. Entered as second class matter, August 3, 1927,\^ at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., under act of March 3, 1879. Copyright, " 1949, by Amateur Cinema League, Inc. Editorial and Publication Office: 420 Lexington Avenue, New York 17, N. Y., U.S.A. Telephone LExington 2-0270. West Coast Representative: Edmund J. Kerr, 6605 Hollywood Boulevard, Los Angeles 28, Calif. Telephone HEmpstead 3171. Advertising rates on application. Forms close on 10th of preceding month.
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