Movie Makers (Jan-Dec 1952)
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APRIL 1952
New York 8's The New York 8mm. Motion Picture Club held its fourteenth annual Gala Night this month in the city's Statler Hotel. The program included Dress Affair, by John Harms; Far, Far-Away Islands, by Joseph F. Hollywood, FACL; David Grows Up, by Fred Furman; The Fresh Milk Line, by Roy Fulmer, ACL : The Caribi Incident, by Harry Atwood, and Outsmarted Smarties, by George Valentine. Refreshments were served at the end of the screening.
Brooklyn gala 0n the same APril
evening the Brooklyn Amateur Cine Club, ACL, presented its annual gala program at the St. Felix Street Theatre in Brooklyn. Feature of the evening was the 1951 Maxim Award winner, In Fancy Free, by Glen H. Turner, ACL.
The balance of the program included Venezia, 1951 Ten Best winner by Oscar H. Horovitz, ACL; North of U.S.A., 1951 club contest winner by Bert Seckendorf, ACL; Souse of the Border, by Irving Gittell; Bedtime Story, by Helen C. Welsh, ACL, and What God Hath Wrought, by Leo Heffernan, FACL. The club TSeivsreel opened the show, an assembly of film clips from various club members.
San Mateo ^n California, Peninsula Home Movies, Unlimited, Inc., ACL, is enjoying an active season. The club members were guests recently and presented a program of their films at meetings of the San Jose Movie Club and the Sacramento Movie Forum. The club's 8mm. trophy in the spring contest was won by Lloyd Masch with Yosemite, and the
Charles H. Benjamin, ACL
16mm. trophy was won by Jack Harris for Easter, '51.
The club recently celebrated its fourth birthday on March 21. Not one. but two birthday cakes, with candles, were provided for the festive occasion. The club has named Betty Stefenel. ACL, Ronald Stefenel and Alice Shapiro as PHMU delegates to attend meetings of the Northern California Council of Amateur Movie Clubs, which held a dinner meeting in Oakland recently, with the Movie Crafters Club acting as host.
Northern Calif. To add t0 the
foregoing item, in its proper place, the Northern California Council of Amateur Movie Clubs recently elected Joseph Pancoast, ACL, its president, with Eric Unmack as vicepresident. Evelyn McCarty as secretary and Betty Stefenel, ACL. as treasurer. Mr. Pancoast also was named editor of the council's publication. Filming For Fun, with Mrs. Stefenel as assistant editor.
Chicago travelers Members of the
Chicago Cinema Club, ACL, are planning a trip to Holland, Mich., on Saturday, May 17, for that city's annual Tulip Festival. The club has chartered a special train for the occasion and extends a cordial invitation to filmers in the Chicago area to come along. The round trip fare will be $7.00 per person (regularly $12.50). The train will leave Grand Central Station, Harrison and Wells Streets, at 6:00 o'clock Saturday morning and return to Chicago that night. The filming party will arrive in time to take in all
COFFEE AND CAKE climax an informal Ladies Night program of Brooklyn Amateur Cine Club.
OMAHA MOVIE CLUB, ACL, marshal!; its contest winners (I. to r.) as follows: Frank Krecek, club president; C. H. Swindler, ACL, L. E. McBride, ACL, Myron Jacoby, ACL, P. W. Finch, Howard Thompson and (seated) Gladys Rohrs.
of the festival's attractions, from the street scrubbing and Klompen dancers to the parades and multitudinous tulip displays.
North Detroit C1ycle Beattie, ACL.
won first place in the annual contest of the North Detroit Cine Club, ACL, with Autumn Royal. In second and third places, respectively, were Helping Children Discover Arithmetic, by Edward Hoot, and KP, by A. Miedema, ACL.
The club's recent election made A. F. Werth president and C. E. Shultz. ACL, secretary-treasurer.
Minn, event The fifteenth annual Spring Show, staged by the Minneapolis Cine Club, will take place this year on May 17, at 8:15 p.m., in the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. The completed program is not available at this writing; but persons interested in attending should call William Mains, ticket chairman, at PArker 5875. Maurice Lowe is chairman in charge of arrangements.
T & V election Elected earlier this year. 1952 officers of New York City's T & V Movie Club. ACL, are as follows: Howard Ordman. president; Bert Nestler, ACL, treasurer, and Margaret Barron, secretary. The club has announced its annual contest and plans for this year's gala public showing, but no details are available at this time.
San Francisco A screening by the Cine Club of San Francisco featured a talk with color slides on Prisons in Communistic Yugoslavia, given by Julian H. Alco, former director of prisons in California, who