Movie Makers (Jan-Dec 1950)

398 NOVEMBER 1950 COMMONWEALTH Announces THREE New Additions to the Edward Small Group Now making |Q in all mp///sss'»<'' COU/VT OF CBISTO Sr£dojvatj HAYWIWBENNETTS 6E0R6E V J SANDERS \^J MONTE CW8TO Madeleine Carroll a ■ loroJne Day ,Bnan Ahe">* loou Hayward fflMafww .bon mask K,TC„A,!'?°-N...,. ».-»-• William Gorgon, Guy n» Moore. Peggy Ry°n i^VbTTHEMOHlCANS LAST Of « ™6 ' ., Bar„es. Henry Randolph Scott. Binnie r» Wilcoxon __..«• FRIENDLY ENEMIES ri i!s VVinniger. Charles Ruggl". Charles minni» . James Craig, Nancy Kelly I For Rentals Communicate with your leading 0 I6MM. FILM LIBRARY 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. EXCLUSIVE I6MM DISTRIBUTORS COMMONWEALTH PICTURES CORP. 723 Seventh Avenue. New York I9.N.Y. HAZE FILTER A HELP Dear Sirs: In response to the query about Haze Filters by Oscar H. Horovitz, ACL, in the October letter column, I have found that they are a great help in many cases. For example, in taking a panoramic view of Montreal. Canada, from the top of Mount Royal, I found that the Kodachrome picture without the Haze Filter was quite foggy looking. A second take of the same scene, on which the Haze Filter was used, came out very clear. Dr. M. J. Skrentny. ACL Chicago. 111. I FIRST LEARNED Dear Sirs: Please enter my subscription to your magazine Movie Makers. I first learned of the magazine when visiting Colonial Williamsburg last summer. There I was given an article on filming the village which had been reproduced from your May, 1948, issue. I made such good use of it that I would like to have the magazine regularly. Carroll J. Agnew Philadelphia, Pa. ENGLISH COLOR SLOWER Gentlemen: I believe I have a contribution to make in connection with last month's query by Dr. D. Morrison, ACL. concerning the Weston speed rating (6 or 8) of English-made Kodachrome. I have just been down in the British West Indies, where only the English Kodachrome is available — ■ and not much of that. I was told very definitely to remember that it is slower, at Weston 6. In my opinion, also, the film's color rendition is different from that made in America. Douglas A. Johnston, ACL Newington, Conn. WISH I HAD KNOWN . . . Dear Movie Makers: I was very much interested in the note about the speed of Kodachrome manufactured outside the United States. I wish I had known that before my last trip to Bermuda! After shooting about 100 feet of English-made Kodachrome on dinghy racing, I was dismayed later to find that the color seemed "off," especially in the greens and flesh tones. It did not strike me then as underexposed. But now, having read your item, I believe that it really was. In any case, the color values of the English emulsion and those of a roll of American-made Kodachrome, exposed within ten minutes of the former, are quite dissimilar. Helen C. Welsh, ACL Albany. N. Y. ODE TO THE AMATEUR Dear Sirs: Enclosed is a piece of poetry I dashed off yesterday. If you think it's good enough to print, I'll be flattered and grateful. THE MOVIE MAKER Partly man and partly beast, Celluloid his favorite feast, Tortured till his "baby's" screened; Danger . . . He's a movie fiend. Doctors, painters, plumbers, brokers, Lawyers, printers, chefs and stokers, Postmen, salesmen, cooks and bakers; All and more are movie makers. Angle seeker, problem solver, Fadeout expert, lap dissolve!-, Closeup master, long shot, pan; Mister . . . That's your movie man. Gadget king and lighting ma'vel, Seeking scripts in play or novel, Shooting scenes in shorts or togar; Careful . . . He's a movie ogre. Landscape lover, scenic ambler, Floral filmer, world-wide rambler, Cairo, Capetown, Charleston, Venice: Watch him . . . He's a movie menace. Color filming, black and whitish, Eight or Sixteen, day or nightish, Pioneer and path forsaker; Bless him . . . He's a Movie Maker! Herbert P. Goldberg, ACL Bronx, New York City For our money, Brother Goldberg, Ogden Nash had better look to his laurels. We like it. THE RIGHT APERTURE Dear ACL: I look forward each month to receiving my copy of Movie Makers, and I must say I especially liked the article, The Right Aperture, in a recent issue. Keep up the fine work. Richard C. McKittrick, ACL Indianapolis, Ind. HANDS ACROSS THE SEA Dear Reader Writes: I enclose my check for $2.00 for two lapel-type ACL membership pins for Andre M. Rougerie, ACL, of Limoges, France, in response to his October letter headed Pins for Perfume. Frank Novotny, ACL Bronx, New York City Gentlemen: Please mail three 16mm. ACL Kodachrome membership leaders