Movie Makers (Jan-Dec 1952)

Record Details:

Title:
Movie Makers
Date:
Jan-Dec 1952
Publisher:
Amateur Cinema League, inc.
Volume:
Movie Makers (Jan-Dec 1952)
Leaf #:
000208
Language:
English
Collection:
Non-Theatrical Film
Format:
Periodicals
Contributor:
Library of Congress, MBRS, Moving Image Section
Sponsor:
Library of Congress, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Movie Makers, the official publication of the Amateur Cinema League, documented and championed home movies and production by local film clubs. During 27 years of publication, Movie Makers provided extensive coverage of the growth of 16mm, the availability of Hollywood films to the home, filmmaking style, amateur production, and color cinematography. -- David Pierce, 2013
Date Added:
December 02, 2023
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188 JULY 1952 Cape Town event A program of the 1949 Ten Best selections by Amateur Cine World, our English contemporary, was presented recently in Cape Town, South Africa, under the auspices of the Cape Town Photographic Society, ACL. The following films were screened: Eggs for Breakfast, by Peter Bowen; The Beginning, by Donald James; Nemesis, by H. A. V. Bulleid; Meet Me In The Local, by Fourfold Film Unit; The River Is Spanned, by Harry Birrell; Only For Telling, by Fourfold Film Unit ; Post Haste, by J. G. Gaskell, and Paper Boat, by High Wycombe Film Society. K.C. Winners ToP honors in the Mid-Year contest held by the Kansas City Amateur Movie Makers, ACL, went to Violet and W. H. Goodson, ACL, in the 16mm. group for Easter Eggs and to Gene and Irene White in the 8mm. group for Super Service. Other 8mm. place winners, in order, were Burning Leaves, by Earl and Lorene Martin; Nine, by Louis and Dorothy Goodson, and The Flood, by Andrew M. Allison. The second and third place 16mm. films were Springtime, by Jim and Sylvia Willoughby. and Garden of the Gods, by Minion and Leonard Carr, ACL. L.A. toasts ladies "There ain't nothin' like a dame," and the distaff side of the Los Angeles 8mm. Club, ACL, had their annual official opportunity to make this point clear at the group's Ladies' Night last month. Vicepresident Eugenia Elliott presided. An all-feminine contest resulted in the following winners: Ladies' Contest, by Mildred Cooper, ACL; Vacation Daze, by Virginia Browning, and / Will Start Tomorrow, by Merle Williams. Runners-up were Exploration of Escalante River, by Louise Fetzner; A Rockhound's Weekend, by Betty Fulton; A Memorial Day, by Melita Fackler, and A Sight For Sore Eyes, by Marian Dance. Magic Medicine, the popular club production, was screened on the program, in addition to the ladies' winning films. Brooklyn elects Herbert Erles, ACL, president, heads the list of new officers chosen by the Brooklyn Amateur Cine Club, ACL. Arthur Rosenthal is vicepresident, with George Angel as secretary and Max Kahn as treasurer. The board of directors is comprised of members Eugene Adams, Louis Dishotsky, Samuel R. Fass, ACL, Irving Gittell, Earl Kaylor, ACL, Bert Seckendorf, ACL, and Francis Sinclaire, ACL. Lonq Beach A discussion of vacation films and travel shooting marked the June meeting of the Long Beach (Calif.) Cinema Club. Among the films projected were Shrine Parade, by Fred Wintber; Never Marry a Bachelor, by Carlton Lay, and Snow Foolin, by Mary Alice and Reuben Eubank, ACL. Feature of the evening was the demonstration by Dr. Don Brown of his new Bell & Howell 202 magnetic sound projector. Metro awards The annual spring banquet last month marked the end of the season for the Metro Movie Club, ACL, of Chicago. Awards were presented to the winners in the club's annual contest, as follows: The Arthur H. Elliott Award went to Don Barber, ACL, for Chicago Railroad Fair, which also placed first in the sound division. The second award in this class went to Carmi Crawford for Underwater at Bimini. First and second place winners in the 8mm. division were Richard Guetl with The Big City and Willard Friberg with Color Hunt. In the 16mm. division. Jack Jacobsen, ACL, took first with What Happened in Our Neighborhood, followed by Margaret Conneely, ACL, with Circus Capers. Richmond outing Members of the Richmond (Calif.) Movie Camera Club spent a recent weekend exploring and shooting among the remnants of a typical western mining town at Columbia State Park in California. EaStOn OUting Members of the Easton (Pa.) ClickIt Club, ACL, enjoyed their annual outing last month, held this year at nearby Hershey Park. At an earlier meeting of the club, the ACL production, Volunteer Nurses' Aide, made during the last war. was screened for study, looking toward a local community production by the club. MMPC election RalPh R Eno ACL, became president of the Metropolitan Motion Picture Club, ACL, of New York City, at the recent election of officers. Robert Coles, ACL, and Raymond Moss, ACL, are first and second vicepresidents. Ernest Miller, ACL, is treasurer, and Louise Gnerich, ACL, is the new secretary. She succeeds Alice Burnett, ACL, who held the position for a number of years. Okla. City event Members of the Movie Makers Club of Oklahoma City, ACL, turned out en masse in May for the wedding of a native son, Ralph E. Gray, FACL, to Mrs. Leona Lyon. There is no mention in the club communique whether the wedding guests went armed with cameras, but we have no doubt the occasion was duly recorded on film. Mr. and Mrs. Gray plan to make their home in Blanco. Texas. Minneapolis GOLDEN GATE CINEMATOGRAPHERS, ACL, of San Francisco, installs new officers (I. to r.) as follows: George Shost, sec'y.; Arthur Balzarini, treas.; A. Theo Roth, ACL, vicepresident, and Ross Alexander, president. Edwin T. Johanson, the man with the gavel, is installing officer. There were eighteen films — too many to itemize here — on the program of the fifteenth annual Spring Show of the Minneapolis Cine Club. ACL. The producers represented were Rudy Sebesta, Carroll Davidson, Albert E. Roser, Don Lucier, ACL, R. J. S. Carter, ACL,