Movie Makers (Jan-Dec 1952)

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While I don't intend for you to publish the name of the person who did raise the question. I want you to print this letter without any alterations to proje that I DIDNT. Al Morton, FACL Salt Lake City, Utah On the remote chance that any Movie Makers reader reacted to this article as Mr. Morton predicts, we are glad to publish his letter, unaltered and in its entirety. Good loser as he is a good filmer, Mr. Morton certainly did not (and would not!) raise the question examined in that article. Dear Reader Writes: Should "difficulties" decide? Definitely, no! But one very important factor has been omitted from your consideration of this matter, and that is the Interest angle. Interest appeal should rate very high in the judgment of any film. I make all of my pictures with one thought uppermost — Audience Appeal! The result is that every one of them to date has been just like the Alaskan filmer's — imperfect. Louise Fetzner, ACL Pasadena, Calif. ACL's contest judges agree with Mrs. Fetzner. Audience appeal or subject matter interest — where it exists — always rates high in their evaluation of Ten Best winners. TULIPS IN ALBANY Dear Movie Makers: Your Closeups note in February on the Natchez Pilgrimage prompts me to drop you a line stating the dates for this year's Albany Tulip Festival. They are from May 14 through 18; and, granted good weather, I can guarantee any ACL visitor a colorful and rewarding subject. Helen C. Welsh, ACL Albany, N Y. Miss Welsh should know. This traditional flowery fete rewarded her with one of the Ten Best Amateur Films of 1950. KITTENS WILL COMPETE Gentlemen: I certainly owe all of you at ACL an apology for not writing sooner in reference to the Honorable Mention award which you gave Mrs. Graham and me for Hobby Show. Based on the annual competition in this contest, we felt most proud at our placement. This year, however, we are going to make a special effort to place among the Ten Best. We have four kittens and are making what we believe to be a very interesting record of their life. So watch out ! Leonard E. Graham. ACL Long Beach, Calif. We may as well confess it now and get it over with: The entire panel of ACL judges are avid aelurophiles — whether in big or little form. BIG HEADS Dear ACL: I don't think we have thanked you for the wonderful honor you gave us by picking our film, Two Paper Cups, as one of the Ten Best of 1951. The whole club is most pleased and we all go around with big heads for bragging. Corinne Storm Secretary Grand Rapids Amateur Movie Club, ACL Grand Rapids, Mich. ON AUSTRALIA Dear Mr. Moore: Thank you very much for the copy of your October Movie Makers. We were very interested indeed in Australia Reporting, the piece by Dr. Keith Vyden, ACL, on the current status of amateur filming in Australia. Hartney Arthur For the Director Australian News Bureau New York City NOT DOCTOR-NOT DAWES Dear Mr. Moore: Needless to say I am pleased with your handling of my survey in October, 1951, Movie Makers entitled Australia Reporting. Regarding the Closeups item in the same issue, however, there are two points I wish you would correct for me, if you will. First, the picture published of me and the girl archer was of Miss Pamela Ward, daughter of one of Australia's leading theatrical pioneers, and not Miss Betty Dawes as captioned. The second correction concerns myself. You, being in America, took it for granted that I was a doctor of dentistry, but such is not the case. Registered dental practitioners here and in the British Empire do not necessarily have a Doctor of Dentistry degree. Keith Vyden, ACL Sydney, Australia For this three-cornered confusion, our sincere apologies to Miss Dawes, Miss Ward and Mr. Vyden. INVITES ADVANCED AMATEURS Dear ACL: I would like to get in touch with some advanced amateurs who would be interested in forming a group for the purpose of shooting motion pictures as a group from prepared scenarios . . . 16mm. only, please. If you are interested in these possibilities, write me directly at the address below. George Kirstein 99 Metropolitan Oval Parkchester 62, New York City