Movie Makers (Jan-Dec 1952)

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182 JULY 1952 FREE CAMERA, LENS and EQUIPMENT CATALOG UST OFF PRESS. 72 pages crammed with THOUSANDS of newest PHOTO TOOLS, CAMERAS, (Press, Studio, Candid, Special Purpose, etc.), LENSES, PROJECTORS, Lighting Equipment, Developing Equip, ment, ENLARGERS, etc. i for the amateur and \ professional, in every day, scientific or industrial work. Burke & James, Inc. FINE PHOTOGRAPHIC EQUIPMENT FOR' OVER 54 YEARS 321 S. Wabash Ave., Chicago 4, III. U.S.A. R. S. V. P. WITH A WINNER! The Amateur Cinema League invites you once again, as it has done each year since 1930, to submit your movie making efforts in the oldest, most honored contest in the world of personal filming — the ACL selections of the Ten Best Amateur Films of the Year and the Hiram Percy Maxim Award. The contest is open to amateurs everywhere in the world, using 8mm. or 16mm. film, black and white or color, silent or sound, in short or long reels and on any subject. HOW SELECTIONS ARE MADE The Ten Best selections are made by the trained staff of the Amateur Cinema League, men who see and evaluate more than a quarter million feet of film each year. The selections are not limited to League members — any amateur filmer, anywhere in the world, may compete. The judges seek for sincerity— sincerity of camera work, film planning, editing, titling and, above all, creative movie imagination. Any fine film can win. This year, it may be your film! SEND YOUR FILM NOW An entry blank and the rules governing the ACL Ten Best contest will be found on the inside front cover of this issue. Plan to answer the ACL's Ten Best invitation WITH A WINNER! Two 3< stamps for giant catalogae. State size 8-16mm Silent, Sound, Sales, Rental, Exchanges. REED & REED DISTRIBUTORS. INC. L7508 3rt|PE., IR00IH.YK9, Mf. DISTINCTIVE TITLES and EXPERT EDITING For the Amateur and Professional 16 mm. — 8 mm. Black & White and Kodachrome Puce list on request ST A H L EDITING AND TITLING SERVICE 33 West 42 St. New York 36. N. Y. *MM— I6MM KODACMROMS BLACK & WHIT* News of the Industry Up to the minute reports on new products and services in the movie field Magnetic On 8 Reeves Soundcraft Corporation, pioneers in the development of magnetic striping for 16mm. and 35mm. films, announces that it is now prepared to apply its Magna-Stripe process to 8mm. film. This new Reeves service is offered in preparation for an announcement by the Movie-Mite Corporation, of Kansas City, Mo., of its magnetic Movie Sound Eight projector. This first 8mm. projector for magnetic recording and reproduction will accept original footage striped on the film base and outside of the line of sprocket holes. The magnetic stripe will be 25 mils in width and will cost 3V2 cents per foot. Movie Makers will survey the Movie Sound Eight magnetic projector in detail in an early issue. SoundstHping Increasing demand for Soundstripe, Bell & Howell's magnetic film striping service introduced last February, has required installation of that service at the company's West Coast plant. The process became available there the first of this month from Bell & Howell Company, at 716 North LaBrea, Hollywood, Calif., as well as from 7100 McCormick Road, in Chicago. Mag-tape splicer The MT-1 Presto splicer for y± inch magnetic tape, a unit based on the butt-weld principle, is now being produced by the Prestoseal Manufacturing Corp., 38-01 Queens Boulevard. Long Island City, N. Y. The MT-1 combines electrically-produced heat and precise pressure, applied within an accurately controlled time cycle, to produce diagonal tape splices without the use of any sort of adhesive or cement. These splices, it is claimed, are inaudible on playback even at maximum gain, and the tape is said to retain its original flexibility. The unit lists at $65. New E.K. officers New assignments for three of its officers were announced by the Eastman Kodak Company late in May. following the annual organizational meeting of the company's board of directors. Thomas J. Hargrave, president since 1941, succeeds Perley S. Wilcox as chairman of the board, in deference to Mr. Wilcox's expressed desire to retire from this post which he has held since 1945. Albert K. Chapman, vicepresident since 1941 and general manager since 1943, becomes the new Kodak president, with Donald McMaster, vicepresident and assistant general manager since 1947, becoming vicepresident and general manager. New Wollensaks Seven new Cine Raptar lenses — two for 8mm. cameras, five for 16's — were announced last month by the Wollensak Optical Company, of Rochester, N. Y. The new objectives for Eight are a fixed focus 6.5mm. //2.5 wide angle at $44.24 tax included, and a 38mm. //1.5 telephoto in a focusing mount at $67.50 with no tax. The focal range of both lenses is from 3 feet to infinity, even with the wide angle objective operating at its widest aperture. The five new lenses for 16mm. cameras are the following: a 12.5mm. //1.5 T. J. HARGRAVE, president of Eastman Kodak Co. since 1941, is new chairman of board. A. K. CHAPMAN, Kodak vicepresident, succeeds Hargrave as president of photo corporation.