Movie Makers (Jan-Dec 1952)

173. M.l.T. Photo Ray Matjasic OSCAR H. HOROVITZ FACL EMMA L. SEELY FACL HARRIS B. TUTTLE FACL FACL 1952 The Amateur Cinema League names three members to Fellowship honors THE ACL takes pride and pleasure in announcing for 1952 the appointment of three of its members to the status of Fellow of the Amateur Cinema League. They are, listed alphabetically, as follows: Oscar H. Horovitz, of Newton, Mass. Emma L. Seely, of Cleveland, Ohio Harris B. Tuttle, of Rochester, N. Y. These members were elected to Fellowship by vote of the League's board of directors, at the Board's twenty sixth annual meeting held on May 14, 1952. The honors status was established in 1940, with the first Fellowship awarded posthumously to Hiram Percy Maxim, FACL. Founder President of the League from 1926 through 1936. The present roster of League Fellows stands at 30. Fellowship in the Amateur Cinema League, as with other educational and scientific bodies, is accorded to individual members in recognition of their outstanding achievements in or contributions to the craft of personal motion pictures. Among the qualifications considered by the directors are the production of able and honored pictures, informed and helpful writing on the techniques of our hobby, unselfish and energetic activity in organized amateur club affairs, the personal and unpaid use of one's camera, projector and pictures in the furtherance of civic and social projects, active and enthusiastic support of the ACL — these, and other accomplishments may contribute to one's selection to League Fellowship. The League's directors believe that all of these qualifications are admirably and variously exemplified among those honored in 1952. Their biographies and accomplishments, necessarily briefed, are presented herewith. OSCAR H. HOROVITZ, FACL In Israel, under the direction of the Jewish women's society Hadassah, they are housing ten orphan kids each in neat concrete homes — whenever, at $2000 per, they can afford to build the homes. Oscar H. Horovitz, as far as one man can with a projector and a picture, has speeded up this process. For, through personal screenings of his 32 minute, sound Kodachrome film on the Youth Aliyah program, he already has raised funds for building two of these shelters — and he is well on his way to building a third. This sort of civic service through his crisp, competent movies comes as naturally as breathing to Mr. Horovitz. In the spring of this year he produced for the Boston Community Chest a sound Kodachrome picture which will spearhead that city's Red Feather fund drive this fall. In completion is Biblio Dynamics, a film for the library committee of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, from which college he graduated as a civil engineer in 1922. He is chairman of a committee making a picture for Boston's Combined Jewish Appeal, and his two films made last year in Israel (Technology Works For Israel on the Haifa Institute of Technology, and Passport To Life on the Hadassah program) are now raising funds professionally in every English speaking country of the world. Mr. Horovitz, who is 53, began making movies in 1936 with a 16mm. Keystone camera. As his ambitions mounted, he moved on in 1937 to a Filmo 70-DA (which he still has) and added (as insurance on his European trip) a 70-DL to this equipment two years ago. From these cameras, in a span from 1942 to 1951, have come nine award-winning pictures which have garnered fourteen prizes in national and international competitions. Four of his six ACL award winners are, by donation, in the League's Film Library. His membership in the League dates from 1936, and in 1950 he became a Life Member. Married, the father of two girls and, by one of them, a grandfather, Mr. Horovitz shared honors recently on a Technology alumni program with Dr. Karl T. Compton, former president and now board chairman of M.l.T. "Look!" he was musing later. "Just look what amateur movies have done for me!" The ACL, in conferring Fellowship on Mr. Horovitz, would reverse that order. EMMA L. SEELY, FACL From babies to birds might well be the headline on any story of Emma L. Seely's bright and bountiful career in wildlife filming. For, like so [Continued on page 189]