Movie Makers (Jun-Dec 1928)

with white water color. This can be washed off and the same cards used for other titles. All the photography was done by Karl Wilhelm. The leading role, "Betty," was played by Miss Winnie Howard. Edwin Vincent played "Jack." Other members of the cast included William Rudy, Ruth Kempton, Roland Tacy, Jack Shea, Norman Fraser, Jack Winans, Ray Winans, Henry Lewis and Joe Niles, not to mention two Fords, one knocked down and the other more or less intact. The scenarists are already working on their next offering, which will be a melodrama to be enacted in the rugged, rock-studded mountains of the Berkshires, where scenery is plenty and untainted with those tricky signs of civilization such as stray smoke from trains, telephone poles and automobiles. If "Plenty of Jack" pays for itself the new "meller" will run four reels and plenty of thrills. There is nothing quite like a club production to knit the members close together in bonds of intense interest and bring them out to meetings in flocks. All clubs that are young and feeble or old and tottering are urged to try out this method of inspiring or renewing life and vigour. Manchester Movies A LOCAL legend furnished the plot for the scenario now being filmed on 35mm by the Manchester Film Society, Manchester, England, under the working title, "At the Black Bear." "The Wizard of Alderley Edge" was the first production of this active British club, which was formed under the leadership of Peter Le Neve Foster, formerly the Honorable Secretary of the Cambridge University Cinema Club. This university, so far as we know, was the first to produce an amateur photoplay. Mr. Foster was also the cameraman for the recent production of the students of Manchester University, "Flashing Garters," which, released under this astounding title, paid expenses and cleared over £100 for Manchester hospitals. Des Moines Box Office /"\VER two thousand persons at^-^ tended the first public screening of "Framed," the production of the Roosevelt Amateur Movie Club of Des Moines, Iowa. The box-office receipts of the premiere paid for the cost of production and in addition netted the club $348, reports Charles Luthe, Jr., cameraman of the club. The group is now planning to enlarge its membership and extend its activities. A STAR OF "NAZIRA" E. Hirschfeld as "Mussa" in the Opus of the Zutto Players of Philadelphia. Over Obstacles THE Cumberland Amateur Motion Picture Club of Vineland, N. J., has finished shooting its current production, a farce comedy as yet unnamed, and the film is now being «^E\ titled and edited. The scenario, an adapted burlesque of the typical "western," was substituted for "111 Wind," work on which was postponed, after several scenes had been shot, because of the absence of one of the leads. In spite of the disarrangement of their plans the club members went forward with the new project in splendid spirit, curtailing all other leisure activities. This, we feel, deserves special note because such accidents are bound to occur in amateur groups, and the stability of the Cumberland Amateur Motion Picture Club in the face of difficulty augurs well for the quality of its work. Greek Jinx Filmed HPHE Satellites in Brooklyn, N. Y., ■*■ are finishing their first production, a two-reel comedy entitled "Blind Man's Bluff." The plot is built around the incidents in the initiation of a fraternity candidate who is forbidden to speak to anyone during initiation week. The Satellites have not yet made plans for their next production. Club members now number thirty. Murray London is president and Jesse Cohen is cameraman. From Stockton FOTO-CINE PRODUCTIONS, an amateur photoplay producing company, was formed during the latter part of March at Stockton, California. The scenario of the first production, a one-reel comedy, is now being written. It is planned that work on it will begin some time this month. Wallace W. Ward is cameraman of the new organization and Robert Durhans is the director. Homer Harvey, Edwin Fairall and Stiles Martin are in the cast of the first picture. (Continued on page 410) X. 9 THE WILD WEST IN NEW JERSEY Production Stills from a "Western" Now Being Filmed by the Cumberland Amateur Motion Picture Club of Vineland, New Jersey. 391