Movie Makers (Jan-Dec 1952)

MOVIE MAKERS Bill Marchand \ EVERETT AMATEUR MOVIE CLUB, ACL, of Washington, groups its program committee and officers from the left as follows: Jesse Raymond, ACL; C. L. Tice, vicepresident; Carl Boynton; Mrs. Orie Smith, chairman refreshments; Lawrence McAndy, secretary-treasurer; David Carlson, ACL, chairman programs, and Dr. Harold Fey, president. E. Grant Perl, John C. Lauber, ACL, Percy Hopkins, ACL, Charles Carroll, Mike Holm, jr., Walter Witt, Stanley Berglund, Dr. Maurice Lower, Wilford Anderson, ACL, Monroe Killy. Dr. Leonard Martin, ACL, Alfred Peterson, Edwin Pearson. ACL, Dr. Horace Scott, Earl Ibberson, ACL. Elmer Albinson. ACL, and Harry Webb. Philadelphia Winners in the annual contest of the Philadelphia Cinema Club have just been announced. Dr. Robert E. Haentze won first place for his 8mm. color film. Of Boys and Fish. Second prize went to Robert E. Tross for Derby Time, and third was awarded Jesse Haines for his 8mm. color film, Nantucket Holiday. New officers elected for the coming year are Victor R. Fritz, president, Mr. Tross, vicepresident; Dr. Haentze, treasurer, and Dorothy F. Horton, secretary. Winnipea A special summer feature for members of the Winnipeg Cine Club, of Canada, was a group flight last month with Trans-Canada Air Lines. Movie cameras were strictly de rigeur. Members not on the flight participated in the ground activities prior to takeoff and at the landing. The club's annual picnic, held this year at Pine Falls, followed the aerial shooting event by a week. Durban showing A feature of a recent program of films projected before the Cine 8 Club. ACL, of Durban, South Africa, was National Parks of the U.S.A., by Dr. V. A. Wager. Also on the program were Holiday Highlights, by F. L. Smith, screened for criticism, and West Wind, by P. L. Waugh. Buffalo annual The sixth annual salon of the Amateur Cinema Club of Buffalo. ACL, featured the 1951 Maxim Award winner, In Fancy Free, by Glen H. Turner. ACL. The program also included Animal Antics, by club member Raymond J. Korst; This Is Story Time, by Jack Grassick, of the Toronto (Canada) Movie Club; A Pair of Shorts, by George A. Valentine, of the Stamford (Conn.) Cinema Club; Vacation Highlights of 1950, by Fred Evans, FACL, of the Los Angeles 8mm. Club, ACL; Two Paper Cups, by the Grand Rapids Amateur Movie Club, ACL, 1951 Honorable Mention winner, and Venezia, by Oscar H. Horovitz, FACL, a 1951 Ten Best. FACL, 1952 [Continued from page 173] many movie makers, Mrs. Seely bought her first camera (a 16mm. Cine-Kodak K) to film her burgeoning family. That was in 1931. In 1937 a robin, little dreaming what she was to initiate, built her nest on a Seely windowsill; Mrs. Seely pictured these domestic doings from inside the bedroom, and her career was begun. It was, happily, a career which she was to share with a sprightly prodigality among all whose interests included birds and assorted wildlife. Mrs. Seely's warm and winning film studies — of which many are award winners — ■ have already been screened before more than 400 clubs, schools, societies and councils. Copies of her pictures are in use by the Cleveland public schools and her efforts have been officially honored by the American Humane Association. Mrs. Seeley first joined the ACL in 1940. She has become a member since then of the Cleveland Photographic Society, the Kirtland Photo Club (of which she is a past president), the Museum of Natural History in New York City, the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, the Cleveland Bird Club and the Pho'ographic Society of America. In 1951 she was named an Associate by this latter group. Her present camera is a Cine-Kodak Magazine 16. on which she uses (besides the 1 inch) lenses of 2, 4 and 6 inches focal length. Her other "talents" of music and poetry — and the disparag Safeguard your Film. Ship in FIBERBILT CASES. 400' to 2000' 16mm. FIBERBILT CASE CO. 40 WEST 17th ST. 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