Photoplay/Volume 36/Issue 5/Amateur Movies

ANNOUNCEMENT of the winners of Photoplay's $2,000 Amateur Movie Contest holds over for one more month.

It was impossible to present the films winning their way into the finals to all of the judges in time for a complete announcement of awards in this issue. Photoplay readers and amateur enthusiasts generally can count upon full details in the November number of this magazine.

THE Stanford Studios, of Stanford University, Calif., plan a production of Hawthorne's "Birthmark" this fall. Ernest W. Page, director of the Stanford Studios, is scenarizing the screen version. The club believes that the Hawthorne story provides a remarkable opportunity for the interpretation of a single mood and experiments in advanced cinematic technique.

The Stanford Studios' production of "The Fast Male," in 1,200 feet of 16-millimeter film, gave high promise. Consequently, the organization's forthcoming presentation film will be watched with high interest.

A YOUTHFUL amateur group at Grosse Point Park, Mich., under the leadership of Jack Navin, has four productions to its credit to date. One of these productions, "Sophistication," was entered in Photoplay's contest and was an interesting satire upon tabloid newspapers and tabloid thinking. The leading rôle was played by Elizabeth Sutherland.

This group is now producing "Alimony Mary," with Catherine Anne Currie in the leading role. The plot concerns the back stage life of a dance team.

AT na recent meeting of amateurs in Wilmington, Del., the Amateur Cinema Club of Delaware was organized.

The Cine Club of Portland, Oregon, recently completed its first film production, "Reel Golf," in 320 feet of 16-millimeter film. Scenes were made at the Glendover Golf Club at Portland.

The first showing of "A Race for Ties," made by the Amateur Cinema Society of Port Arthur, Canada, attracted much attention recently in one of the Port Arthur theaters, drawing a capacity audience. The film was the first production of the club. The scenario, written by Dorothea Mitchell, was developed around North Woods lumbering activities and the bitter competition between small lumbermen and big concerns. Harold Harcourt directed "A Race for 'Ties."

Movie Makers of Waterloo, Iowa, have organized under the leadership of W. H. Pamplin and George W. Mack. The first production, "Uncle Duggett," a comedy running 300 feet in 16 millimeter film, has been completed. King Beal directed.

THE Orleans Cinema Club bas been organized in New Orleans, La. This is the first amateur club to be formed in Louisiana. The première of the club's first two productions, "Bayou d'Amour" and "Air Buddies," each running 400 feet in 16 millimeters, was held recently at the club's studio. "Air Buddies" is an ambitious story of the World War, while "Bayou d'Amour" is the romance of an artist and a country girl.

The Movie Division of the Cleveland Photographic Society is working on a mystery story involving a number of special effects and illusions.

THE Amateur Movie Club of Rochester is planning the production of a film illustrating the methods used in selling fake stock. This picture will be made with the cooperation of the Rochester Chamber of Commerce and the Better Business Bureau. Another instance of amateur cinematographers cooperating in an important civic project.

Filming of "Trustworthy," by the Birmingham, Ala., Amateur Movie Association, has been completed.