Movie Makers (Jan-Dec 1953)

36 FEBRUARY 1953 For Birthday Movies or any time TO MAKE GOOD PICTURES BETTER Gr MEDIUM BEAM "E REFLECTOR PHOTOLAMPS 4f Designed especially for movie making. 40° beam spread is / matched to camera coverage. 375watts means four on i| a single home circuit. -^«*i<r Ideal for camera bracket lights. and to see them at their best— If m G-E PROJECTION LAMPS Use'em in slide or movie projector and be sure to keep a spare handy. Remember . . . G-E Lamps for every photographic purpose GENERAL ELECTRIC CloseupS— What filmers are doing N ormally, we make every effort to keep politics out of this, our friendly, family journal. But we cannot resist quoting briefly from a letter received late in 1952 from subscriber Kit F. Clardy, then of Lansing, Mich. "My address after the first of the year," he writes, "will be the House Office Building, Washington, D. C, to which I ask you to change my mailing stencil accordingly. I am one of the newly elected House members." Happily, since Congressman Clardy omits any mention of which party put the finger on him, we may, and do, offer him our warm congratulations on his new job. Good voting . . . and good shooting, come Cherry Blossom time! A nice visit last month with Lester A. ("Les") Hamilton, ACL, who, when we asked him where he was from (meaning geographically), said: "The Ice Follies." Well . . . "The Ice Follies" struck us as a pretty peripatetic address, and Les admitted that it was, all right; that he and his wife (who also is a skater) lived out of suitcases for nine months of the year, and that, on their holidays, they still chose to travel to such picture places as, say, Puerto Rico — from which they had just returned. Nevertheless, after fourteen years of professional ice skating (the guy must have started on double runners, he looks that young!), Les feels they are about ready to settle down to a more permanent address than "The Ice Follies." It will be he tells us, in Los Angeles. Judging from even the little of his footage that we saw, we'd advise the L. A. clubs to take note. Good man . . . and he's converting to magnetic. Haven Trecker, ACL, who comes up currently with his second article in three issues of Movie Makers, apparently was a gone goose as far as movies were concerned. Thirty two years ago he began helping his Dad grind old 35mm. silent films through such hand-cranked projectors as the Simplex, Powers and Motiograph. Then, in the early '30s, he latched onto a Model B Cine-Kodak (Eastman's second, this one spring-driven and with 100 foot spool capacity) and, he says, a beat-up DeVry projector. Progressive trade-ins over the years since then have left him with a three-lensed Bolex H-16 and a Filmosound 202 magnetic projector — obviously a sad state of affairs. "I guess I have shot up over 40,000 feet of film in my twenty years with the hobby," Mr. T. summarizes. Most recently these efforts have crystalized into competent and musically-accompanied travelogs which the producer presents (for a modest fee) before clubs, schools, churches and P-T groups. Bulbs and Beauty, Trecker's 1952 Ten Best winner on the gladiolus industry near his home in Kankakee. 111., is now booking well because of its local interest. In between making and showing his movies, Mr. T. has managed three furniture stores for the past twenty six years — and raised one son for the past seventeen. THE SWAN LAKE ballet is the subject of Warren D. Hosmer's camera, in a production he has been filming for a Michigan photo group. In our picture of the month, that's Warren D. Hosmer, ACL, behind the Bolex and the beautiful blond in the striped blouse — not to mention being surrounded by assorted ballet dancers and a full-scale production crew. Mr. Hosmer, who is president of the Contemporary Photographic Society of Michigan and operates (natch!) mostly in the movie division, was hard at work shooting a sequence from the Swan Lake ballet. His home is in Ferndale. \Ar e now make our annual obeisance to the spirit of the Old South, which is nowhere more graciously maintained than at The Natchez Pilgrimage, pride of that picturesque community above the Mississippi. The Pilgrimage, for this year, will extend from February 28 through March 29. And the conducted tours of the noble, ante-bellum homes will be six in number, with five homes to a tour, for a total of thirty. A lucky few visitors may even arrange to stay in one of these spacious mansions — if they write at once. For guidance on this and other Pilgrimage plans, address The Natchez Pilgrimage, Natchez, Miss.