Movie Makers (Jan-Dec 1953)

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MOVIE MAKERS 137 Where to see THE TOP OF THE TEN BEST Dale Sponsor Tickers and information May 15 Golden Gate Cinematographers, A. Theo Roth San Francisco, Calif. 140 Paraiso Place San Francisco 16, Calif. May 22 Indianapolis Amateur Movie Club Walter R. St. Clair 3542 Guilford Avenue Indianapolis 5, Ind. May 27 Kenosha Movie and Slide Club Timothy Lawler 7420— 25th Avenue Kenosha, Wise. June 1 Los Angeles Cinema Club Charles J. Ross 3580 Griffith Park Blvd. Los Angeles 27, Calif. June 9 Color Camera Club, Waterloo, Iowa Harold M. Thompson Box 26 Waterloo, Iowa June 15 Central Texas Camera Club, Dr. Ira F. Kerwood McGregor, Texas 405 Third McGregor, Texas Where to see the JUNIOR TOP OF THE TEN BEST Date Sponsor Tickets and Information May 20 Fox Valley Movie Club, Elgin, III. George Underhill 164 DuPage Street Elgin, III. June 4 Waukegan Camera Club Neal S. Braithwaite 1421 Ridgeland Avenue Waukegan, III. June 10 Rhode Island Movie Club Reuel W. Libby, Jr. 66 Lawnacre Drive Cranston 10, R. 1. June 16 Minneapolis Cine Club Albert E. Roser 4246 Upton Ave., South Minneapolis 10, Minn. named film recently received an Honorable Mention with the Ten Best Films of 1952 in the ACL competition. Westchester Good news for resi dents of New York's Westchester County! The Westchester Cine Club, ACL, has recently been formed and has extended an invitation to all movie makers to visit them. The club meets on the second and fourth Wednesdays of each month at the White Plains Public Library. After June 1, meetings will be held at the Westchester County Center. If you would like further details about the club and its many activities, John J. Lloyd, ACL write to Virginia Bishop, 70 Leicester Street, Port Chester, N. Y., or to David D. Bulkley, 1825-C Palmer Avenue, Larchmont, N. Y. AMPC St. Louis At the regular meeting of the Amateur Motion Picture Society of St. Louis, held on April 10 at the city's Roosevelt Hotel, members saw a film on Light Control Through Polarization, produced by the Polaroid Corporation to illustrate the use of polaroid filters. Supplementing this instructional film was a screening of Canadian Holiday, by Elmer Moeller, which was filmed entirely with a polarizing screen. This OVER ONE HUNDRED attended recent banquet and screening staged in Hollywood by Southern California Association of Amateur Movie Clubs. Each unit presented one picture on the program. novel experiment should give the club members much to discuss, pro and con, concerning this technique. Fox Valley ^he Fox Valley Movie Club, ACL, of Elgin, 111., has announced the winners of its 1952 annual contest. In the 8mm. division, they were James Nelson with The Agonized Angler, first prize, and Albert Rogers with Drifting Along, second prize. The 16mm. winners were A Day at the Zoo, by James Knights, first, and Zoologically Speaking, by Irvin Honel, second. Try synchro-tach [Continued from page 128] second. (Other figures, for reference, are 2160 rpm at 18 fps, 2400 rpm at 20 fps, and 2650 rpm at 22 fps, which latter proved to be the maximum speed of my projector.) After a little practice with this setup, you will find it quite easy to keep your projector running at a fixed and preselected speed — say the 2000 rpm version of 16 fps already cited. Before use, of course, the machine should be warmed up thoroughly — and by that I mean for as much as ten minutes. At the end of that period, set the rheostat so the tachometer shows exactly 2000 rpm. If a recording is now made in synchrony with a tape recorder, you will find that the projector speed can be held, with only the slightest adjustment, at the desired rate. The setup seen in Fig. 1, however, may strike some craftsmen as improvised and not so refined in design as they might wish. It was not long, in fact, before it impressed me that way — so that the de luxe version shown in Figs. 2 and 3 was the result. Not only is it more professional looking; but by virtue of its mobility it makes for greater freedom and comfort in your control of the projector. Here again the costs were quite reasonable. I housed the unit in the standard 3 inch meter cabinet which sells at your radio parts store for about $.93. Once more the tachometer was held by a hose or pipe clamp screwed to a corner bracket, which was fastened in turn to the side of the steel cabinet. The top of the cabinet was drilled out to take a standard Amphenol AC socket, in which is mounted for convenience a fiveand-dime-store pilot light (see Fig. 2). Also shown clearly in Fig. 2 is the installation on the right side of the cabinet of a rheostat, as indicated by the l-to-15 switch plate and the pointer control knob — all standard radio items. This rheostat should be an exact duplicate of the one in your projector, and as such it is best ordered from the manufacturer of that machine. Or, if you know how to, you can remove the orig I