Movie Makers (Jan-Dec 1953)

60 MARCH 1953 Add a VARIABLE SHUTTER UNIT To Your BoEex H-16 The type of shutter, standard for all professional movie cameras. • Full range from open to closed at any camera speed. • 3 convenient intermediate stops, 3A open, '/2 open and Va open, enable you to expose from 1/18 sec. at true 8 f.p.s. at open to 1/560 sec. at Vi open at true 64 f.p.s. • Make complee transition lap dissolves anytime. • Fade-ins and fade-outs at your fingertips. • Neutral density filters no longer needed when filming outdoors with fast film. Audible warning sound when shutter in closed position when filming forward or hand-cranking either way. • Avail yourself of the maiy other advantages obtainable only with a controlled variable shutter speed. • Give your next movies that sparkling professional touch. PRICES (within U.S.) Cameras with inside frame counter... $ 99.60 With the Yolo automatic dissolve attachment (for H-16 with built in frame counter only) $57.00 extra. Cameras with outside frame counter. $109.80 Price includes camera transportation back to you, insurance coverage, and one year guarantee. (Local and state taxes where applicable, extra) Send for free detailed informative booklet, "Variable Shutter Units for Bolex H16" TULLIO PELLEGRINI . 1545 Lombard Street San Francisco 23, Calif. PROTECTS YOUR FILM STRIPS ALL STEEL FILMSTRIP CABINET MF-6— This roomy, yet compact 6 drawer cabinet holds up to 336 filrhstrip cans each in its own compartment . . . each individually indexed. Drawers are equipped with adjustable dividers for desired division widths. Write for free catalog. tm-i m,\t,\jm PRODUCTS CORP. 330 W. 42nd St., New York 18, N. Y. 1 llVJ THE MAGAZINE FOR 1 1 A ■ 1 ^^^^^^H 8mm & 16mm FILMERS u ai/tdc Published Every Month by ITI ArAtKo AMATEUR CINEMA LEAGUE ! 1 08§g&m. -.'*.•* • . March '•ji 1953 w The reader writes 62 •? Beginner's luck Felix Zelenka 64 They laughed at Hamlet! Donna Lindbeck 66 Fine frames From readers' films 67 Silver for Chicago Peter S. Bezek, ACL 68 Bulk film in a box Herbert H. Reech, ACL 69 Notes from magnetic notebooks: 2 Robert G. Williams, ACL 70 Victor Animatograph adds magnetic 72 1, too, saw Cinerama Aaron Nadell 73 News of the industry Reports on products 75 Closeups What filmers are doing 76 New ACL members 79 Clubs People, plans and programs 80 On picking a program Editorial 82 Cover photograph by Harold M. Lambert from Frederic Lewis JAMES W. MOORE Editor PETER D. DIBBLE ANNE YOUNG . Clubs Editor Advertising & Production Vol. 28, No. 3. Published monthly in New York, N. Y., try Amateur Cinema League, Inc. Subscription rates: $4.00 a year, postpaid, in the United States and Possessions and in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico?' Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Spain^nd Colonies, Uruguay and Venezuela; $4.50 a year, postpaid, in Canada, Labrador and Newfoundland; ot^rer countries $5.00 a year, postpaid; to members of Amateur Cinem-j League, tnc, $3.00 a year, postpaid; single copies 35i/(in U. S. A.). On sale at photon/graphic dealers everywhere. Entered as seeond class matter, August 3, 1927, / at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., upder act of March 3, 1879. Copyright, 1953, by Amateur Cinema League, Inc^/Editorial and Publication Office: 420 Lexington Avenue, New York 17, N. Y., U. S. A. Telephone LExington 2-0270. West Coast Representative: Wentworth F. Green, 439 South Western Avenue, Los Angeles 5, Calif. Telephone DUnkirk 7-8135. Advertising rates on application. Forms close on 10th of preceding month. CHANGE OF ADDRESS: a change of address must reach us at least by the twelfth of the month preceding the publication of the number of MOVIE MAKERS with which it is to take effect.