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DECEMBER 1951
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.
RCA MAGNETIC SOUND
Dear Mr. Moore: Those were two very fine articles on magnetic sound and the RCA projector-recorder you presented in September and October Movie Makers. I should like all my salesmen to read them, so please send me ten more copies of each, and bill accordingly.
Jack Proctor, ACL Melrose, Mass.
ENGINEER AN AMATEUR
Dear Mr. Moore: Thank you very much for giving such a good presentation to my article on the RCA 400 magnetic projector.
Being a cine-amateur myself, I naturally will be using this new recording medium for my own films. Therefore, I feel that at some future time I might be able to contribute further to Movie Makers with reports on my experiences. G. A. Del Valle Engineering Dept. RCA Victor Division Camden, N. J.
Such reports from cine-amateur del Valle, project engineer on the RCA magnetic projector, will be warmly welcomed at any time.
HELPED CONTINUOUSLY
Dear Sirs: Thank you for the reminder to renew my membership in the Amateur Cinema League. I would not want to miss a single issue of Movie Makers, for it has helped me continuously to improve my movies.
Norman A. Putherbough, ACL London, Ont., Canada
THE MESSNER TITLER
Dear Sirs: In the October issue of Movie Makers I have just finished reading the article by William Messner, ACL, called Zoom Titles With Zooming. Can you please tell me where Mr. Messner purchased this titler and the cost of it? Or, if he made it himself, how about publishing the designs and dimensions of it in the near future.
Douglas Archer, ACL Beverly Hills, Calif.
Dear ACL: I hope William Messner's article in October Movie Makers will be followed soon by another giving de
tails for building his titler both for still and zoom titles — particularly diagraming that cradle holder he has for the Bolex H camera.
Mrs. Stanley E. Brackett, ACL South Braintree. Mass.
Both Movie Makers and Mr. Messner have received many requests for a detailed outline of the construction of this simple but versatile titler unit. Exactly such an article, thoroughly illustrated with photographs and construction diagrams, is now in preparation. Readers may look for it in an early issue.
SLIDE BOOKS BY BOND
Dear Sirs: In the September issue of Movie Makers, B. L. Williford, ACL, of San Leandro, Calif., mentioned a couple of new books on slide photography by Fred Bond. Since we take colored slides as well as 16mm. movies, we are anxious to know more about this. Can you give me the name and address of the firm publishing these books?
Ernest A. Reed, ACL Lyons, Kans.
We certainly can. Mr. Reed ; and, in fact, we should have thought to add this information to the Williford letter in the first place.
The two books in question — both known as Making Better Color Slides — are really Part 1 and Part 2 of the same work, but they retail for $3.50 each. The publisher is Camera Craft Publishing Co., 95 Minna Street, San Francisco 5, Calif.
PRETTY GIRLS-MARCHING
Dear Fellow Members: Any ACL members visiting New Zealand during the months from November, 1951, to March of next year will do well to keep a watchful eye (and a supply of film) for ten pretty girls — marching.
Precision marching as a sport for girls first caught on in New Zealand
some eight years ago. Outstanding and colorful teams (a team is comprised of one leader, nine rankers and reserves) now compete against each other with fanatical enthusiasm throughout the Dominion Down Under.
Even should your travel plans not include New Zealand, you will find one of our crack teams parading its precision skills for eighteen weeks this spring and summer throughout England and Scotland. First invited by Scottish enthusiasts, the chosen team is, appropriately, the kilted Blair Athol unit from our Scottish city of Dunedin.
Stanley W. Cleland, ACL Dunedin, New Zealand
A HEARTY THANK YOU
Dear ACL Pres. Harley: At the November 28 meeting of the Amateur Motion Picture Society of Albany, ACL, our program chairman Ray Bellanger presented through your courtesy two Ten Best films of 1948. These were Crystal Clear, produced by yourself, and Menemsha, by Jose Pavon, ACL. Mr. Bellanger. myself and each member present wish to express a hearty thank you. The films were both entertaining and educational, and they have given many of us high hopes of making a Ten Best some day.
Ruth Borland, ACL Secretary Amateur Motion Picture Society, ACL Albany. N. Y.
BIOLOGICAL PHOTOGRAPHIC ASSOCIATION
Dear Mr. Moore: Since many ACL members have advanced interests in various fields of photography, I thought that some of them might like to know about the Biological Photographic Association, first organized in 1931 and now conducting a drive for members. Members of BPA share their skills (still or movie) with others in several ways: (1) by writing articles on their experiences for publication in the BPA quarterly Journal; (2) through attendance at the annual convention (the week after Labor Day), where
THE BLAIR ATHOL TEAM, clad in Royal Stewart tartan, white tunics, feathered balmorals, white gauntlets and footwear, will represent New Zealand this summer in the United Kingdom.