Movie Makers (Jan-Dec 1953)
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JULY 1953
Ten Best Continuing its travels around the country, The Top of the Ten Best, ACL's popular new feature program, has been shown during the past months at the following clubs: Associated Amateur Cinema Clubs, in Chicago; the Big Lake (Texas) Cine Club, ACL; the Golden Gate Cinematographers, ACL, in San Francisco; the Indianapolis Amateur Movie Club, ACL; the Kenosha (Wise.) Movie and Slide Club, ACL; the Los Angeles Cinema Club ; the Metro Movie Club of River Park, ACL, in Chicago; the Color Camera Club, ACL, of Waterloo, Iowa, and the Central Texas Camera Club. Although demand for the program is still heavy, there are a few open dates available in bo.h August and December.
The Junior TTB show was presented by the Fox Valley (111.) Movie Club, ACL; the Waukegan (111.) Camera Club. ACL; the Rhode Island Movie Club; the Minneapolis Cine Club, ACL, and il.e Des Plaines (111.) Movie and Slule Club, ACL. Bookings for this one-reel package are available generally for most dates during the fall.
Washington On May 18, the
Washington (D. C.) Society of Cinematographers, ACL, reelected Harrison F. Houghton, ACL, as president for 1953, with Everett A. R. Searl, ACL, first vicepresident, and Victor E. Patterson, ACL, second vicepresident. Other officers will be Karl Hoffman, ACL, secretary -treasurer ; Sanford P. Rogers, assistant secretary; M. W. Brigg, ACL, assistant treasurer, and Charles H. Ward, T. H. Sarchin, ACL, and J. Donald Sutherland, ACL, directors. Joseph 0. Janousek will again serve as general counsel.
At the same meeting, society fellowships were given to Mr. Sutherland and Ralph E. Lawrence, ACL, "in recognition of their outstanding cinema
achievements culminating in the selection of their Birds of Washington as part of the Top of the Ten Best." Honorary club memberships were given to Delores and Timothy Lawler, AACL; Robert G. Williams, ACL; Harris B. Tuttle, FACL; Oscar H. Horovitz, FACL, and Terry Manos, ACL, all of whom were guests of the club during the past year.
S. California Winners of the contest sponsored by the Southern California Association of Amateur Movie Clubs, with the Crenshaw Amateur Movie Makers as host for the occasion, were announced recently. They were Green River, by Louise Fetzner, ACL, of the Los Angeles 8mm. Club, ACL ; From This Day Forward, by Lee Hansen, of the Orange County Cinema Club, and Bashful Beau, from a scenario by Barry W. Dance, ACL, of the Los Angeles 8s.
All told, members of this latter club took five trophies, with the Orange County contingent taking four.
MMPC election At a recent meeting, the Metropolitan Motion Picture Club, ACL, of New York City, reelected Ralph R. Eno, ACL, as president for 1953-54. Serving with Mr. Eno will be Raymond Moss, ACL, first vicepresident; Leo J. Heffernan, FACL, second vicepresident; Louise Gnerich, ACL, secretary, and Ernest Miller, treasurer. Special appointments for the coming season include Frank E. Gunnell, FACL, as chairman of supplementary meetings and Mr. Moss as equipment chairman.
Brooklyn Next year, officers of the Brooklyn Amateur Cine Club, ACL, will be Herbert Erles, ACL, president; Gordon Goldsmith, vicepresident; R. Max Kahn, treasurer; George Angel, ACL, secretary, and
GOLDEN GATE CINEMATOGRAPHERS, ACL, in San Francisco, install new officers for 1953 as follows: George Sohst, installing officer; Jan Piek, secretary; Arthur Balzarini, treasurer; J. Cimino, jr., vicepresident, and A. Theo Roth, ACL, president. The occasion was at club's annual banquet.
Sam Sohnen, ACL, Ernest Knight, ACL, Francis Sinclaire, ACL, Bert Seckendorf, ACL, and Eugene Adams, directors.
On June 3, the club was entertained with a program of films made by members of the Metropolitan Motion Picture Club, ACL, of New York City. Among the films screened were Crystal Clear, by Joseph J. Harley, FACL; Haiti, the Black Republic, by Stanley Woolf, ACL, and Glacier National Park, by Frank E. Gunnell, FACL.
Minneapolis The Minneapolis Cine Club, ACL, had its sixteenth annual Spring Show recently for an audience of well over 700. Among the films featured were Sabina's Fantasy, by Walter Witt and Reinhold Erickson, ACL; Oyster Shells from Ocean Reef to Feed Bin, by Carroll Michener, ACL; Sedona, Arizona, by G. L. Larson, ACL; Turtle Fishing in the Gulf of California, by Charles Beery; Weeki-Wachi, Spring of the Mermaids, by Rudy Sebesta; With Eisenhower in St. Paul, by Stanley Berglund; 1952 Aquatennial Night Parade, by R. J. S. Carter, ACL.
Also screened were 1952 Christmas Party, by Mr. Sebesta and George Fish, ACL; Pueblo Arts, by Elmer Albinson, ACL; Madeira Island, by James Brown; Happy Birthday, Margaret!, by Monroe Killy; Halloween Masquerade, by Leonard Martin, ACL; Amateur Nature Study, by Albert Roser ; Venice, by R. Grant Perl; Birds at Home, by Mr. Fish; Ice Follies, by Edwin Pearson, ACL, and Ski Trail at Sun Valley, by Robert Kleinman.
Bergen County Winners of the recent contest held by the Amateur Movie Society of Bergen County (N.J.), ACL, were Ceramics, by Ralph Santulli, first; Why Men Get Gray, by John Boone, second, and A Pair of Shorts, by Don Calasanto, third.
Highlighting the June meeting of the club was a visit from George Merz, FACL, an honorary life member of the society, who screened one of his latest films, Mahi, and demonstrated his newly designed tripod.
Lancaster The Amateur Cinema Club of Lancaster, ACL, in Pennsylvania, participated recently in the city's annual Hobby Show, sponsored by the Optomist Club and the Recreation Association. The club's ex