Movie Makers (Jan-Dec 1953)

174 JULY 1953 This department has been added to Movie Makers because you, the reader, want it. We welcome it to our columns. This is your place to sound off. Send us your comments, complaints or compliments. Address: The Reader Writes. Movie Makers, 420 Lexington Ave., New York 17, N. Y. COLOR PROCESSING UNIFORM Dear Mr. Moore: Since the April publication of my article, Tips for the Traveler, it has been brought to my attention that changes have been made during the past year by the Eastman Kodak Company in the processing of Kodachrome films abroad. Because of the general increase in the number of travelers' films being processed overseas, I am informed by a wholly reliable source that the color processing in all of Kodak's European laboratories is now uniform with that done in the United States. I trust that this corrected information will be made available promptly to our readers. LeRoy Segall, ACL Milwaukee, Wise. WARRANT THIS DISTINCTION Dear Sirs: To be elected unanimously as a Fellow of the Amateur Cinema League is a great honor. I have been trying, in my own mind, to figure what outstanding accomplishments I have made to warrant this distinction. The little I have been able to do has always been a pleasure; yet it has always been the ACL which has been the inspiration to do still better work. I hope that I will be able to live up to the honor conferred upon me. Roy C. Wilcox, FACL Meriden, Conn. GREAT PLEASURE Gentlemen: It was with great pleasure that I received your letter informing me that I have been elected a Fellow of the Amateur Cinema League. To the officers and directors of the League I wish to express my very sincere thanks and appreciation for this honor which they have bestowed upon me. It is an honor which I shall revere most highly. George Merz, FACL Hollywood, Fla. HONOR EXTENDED Dear Mr. Moore: Please convey to your board of directors my most sincere gratitude for the great honor they have extended to me in appointing me to the rank of Associate in the Amateur Cinema League. I am most happy to accept the appointment, and I can assure you of my desire to serve ACL in my country. Alfred T. Bartlett, AACL Brisbane, Australia MAINTAIN THEIR FAITH Dear Sirs: I feel highly honored to have been selected by the directors of the ACL as an Associate of the Amateur Cinema League. I shall do my best to maintain their faith in my appointment. Enjoying this new status of Associate, I feel even more enthused about building up the membership and strength of ACL. Timothy M. Lawler, Jr., AACL Kenosha, Wise. SIGNAL HONOR Gentlemen: Thank you so very much for informing me that the board of directors of the Amateur Cinema League has appointed me to the new honors rank of Associate in ACL. To say that I am thrilled with this signal honor is to put it mildly. William Messner, AACL Teaneck, N. J. CERTAINLY SURPRISED Dear Mr. Moore: I was certainly surprised and unquestionably pleased when I read your letter saying that the Board of Directors has appointed me as an Associate of the ACL. I am sure that few hobbies can claim as helpful and as informed an organization as we movie makers have in the ACL. I know that the League has been most helpful to me. Now, as an Associate, I shall be glad to aid the League in any way I can. Herbert D. Shumway, AACL Greenfield, Mass. HAPPY AND GRATEFUL Gentlemen: I am indeed happy and grateful to have been selected among those named to the new honors rank of Associate in the Amateur Cinema League. Please believe that my most sincere desire at this moment is to do everything possible to further the advancement of our hobby and especially to aid the League and its members in every way I can. Haven Trecker, AACL Kankakee, 111. HONOR AND RESPONSIBILITY Dear Sirs: I am most appreciative of both the honor and the responsibility conferred on me by the directors in my appointment as an Associate of the Amateur Cinema League. Please convey to all concerned by warmest thanks. Glen H. Turner, AACL Springville, Utah ACCEPT WITH HUMILITY Gentlemen: Such an honor as that which the League has accorded me is the dream of every movie maker! It is with humility that I accept it — not as a reward for anything which I have already done, but rather as a spur to even greater activity on behalf of the ACL and my fellow movie makers. Helen C. Welsh, AACL Albany, N. Y. GRAINGER NOT RETAIL Dear Movie Makers: In my original manuscript of Try Synchro-Tach, which you published in May, I stated that "the Warner hand tachometer could be obtained at Grainger warehouses, Wellworth Trading, etc." However, you changed this to read: "Common retail outlets should be all Grainger stores, etc." I want you to know that W. W. Grainger, a nation-wide chain indeed, sells only wholesale and strictly so at that. I am afraid they will holler their heads off at your boot. Herbert H. Reech, ACL Cleveland, Ohio Our regrets, naturally, to author Reech for this unwitting error. Thus far the Graingers either have not caught it or just don't care. SYNCHRO-TACH VARIANT Dear Mr. Moore: Inspired by Herbert Reech's excellent May article, Try Synchro-Tach, I have tried out a somewhat less expensive (because I had all the materials in my junk pile) angle which may be of interest to other readers: A speedometer cable and an old speedometer will do the same job, although probably not as accurately as Mr. Reech's rig. It must be calibrated, of course. The truck speedometer I used, when cabled to the hand-turning knob of my old Ampro, runs at about 68 miles per hour when the projector is going 16 fps. Jack E. Gieck, ACL Birmingham, Mich. REPORT FROM KEYSTONE Dear Mr. Moore: In this, Keystone's 34th year, I thought you might be interested in some of the data on the in-, dustry which we have been asked to supply by others. Although only a few years ago the proportion of 8mm. cameras to 16mm. units was about three to one, the sale of 8mm. cameras is now about four times that of the Sixteens. I believe that many post-war dealers have never used the Sixteen themselves, and therefore,