Movie Makers (Jan-Dec 1952)

166 JULY 1952 For perfect COLOR slides and movies G-E MASCOT is the exposure meter everyone can use . . . just read the exposure setting on the dial. As easy to read as a watch. Pays for itself over and over in film and pictures saved. Every camera needs a Mascot! See it at your photo dealer's . . $15.25* General Elertrir.Si.il: ■tadu.N.Y. *Fair traded 606-119 THE NEW This department has been added to Movie Makers because you, the reader, want it. We welcome it <" our columns. This is your place to sound off. Send us your comments, complaints or compliments. Address: The Reader Writes, MOVIE Makeiis, 420 Lexington Ave., New York 17, N. Y. GENERAL m ELECTRIC HANDS ACROSS THE SEA Dear Sirs: I am very honored to be named an Honorary Member of the Amateur Cinema League. I accept with pleasure your membership card and the world wide association for which it stands. Erik von Frenckell. ACL President XV Olympiad Helsinki 1952 Helsinki, Finland Dear Mr. Moore: This is to tell you how much I appreciate being given Honorary Membership in your League. Although my profession (I am a director of motion pictures, the theatre and the opera) indicates rather a professional interest, I want to assure you that I am a keen amateur filmer myself and feel rather proud of having made amateur short subjects in different parts of Europe. I send my very best wishes to the ACL. Jack E. Witikka. ACL Manager Photography and Film Office XV Olympiad Helsinki, Finland MEMBERS IN MONACO Cher M. Charbonneau: I would be particularly honored if you will accept honorary life membership in our club, Les Cineastes Amateurs de Monaco. We would be equally happy if M. Harley, president of the Amateur Cinema League, would also accept honorary perpetual membership in our group. I enclose membership cards for you both, and sincerely hope that one day you will pay us a visit in Monaco. Dr. J. C. Torrel President C1NEAM Monte Carlo, Monaco SMOKE VS. KODACHROME Dear Movie Makers: I have just read with interest the item in your June letter column entitled Smoke Screen, in which a question is raised whether tobacco smoke in the air of an auditorium can be injurious to color film being projected in that area. While we have not made any tests on the effect of tobacco smoke on Kodachrome dyes, we do know that color prints which have been hung in club rooms where there is constant tobacco smoke seem to change in color in six months' to a year's time. One theory has been that the sulfur in tobacco smoke combines with moisture in the air to form sulfurous acid, which is an oxidizing agent. When it is present in the air even in minute quantities over a long period of time it would tend to oxidize the dyes used in color prints and eventually cause the colors to change. But remember that this only happens when the prints are exposed continuously over a period of months or years. In discussing this problem with some of our color engineers here, we all feel that anyone using 8 or 16mm. color film need not worry about the film fading due to projection in rooms containing tobacco smoke. Harris B. Tutti.e, FACL Sales Service Division Eastman Kodak Co. Rochester, N. Y. Our thanks to League Fellow Tuttle for this interesting summary of an esoteric problem. . . . Will some one please pass the cigarettes? ALONG BASIC LINES Dear Movie Makers: It was delightful to read in the March issue the simple film plan, Spring Is Here. For those of us with very limited spare time, it will be quite a while before we have developed into the more complex phases of filming. I feel, therefore, that we need training and practice along basic lines. I sincerely hope we shall find more of this type of thing in future issues. J. W. Burrows, ACL Edmonton, Alberta, Canada CLUB IN ROCHESTER? Dear ACL: If there are any 16mm. filmers in the Rochester, N. Y., area who are interested in starting a 16mm. movie club, I would greatly appreciate hearing from them. I am 22 and in my second year with Sixteen. Jack Finear, ACL 570 Birr Street Rochester 13. N. Y. THE GEORGES DO IT Dear Sirs: We would like to congratulate you on having such an active member on your board as George Merz, ACL. He recently explained to the club the benefits of belonging to the ACL. and it gives me pleasure to send you herewith our remittance for eight mem