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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 789, 9 October 1929, Page 16

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CONTEST FOR AMATEURS HOW BOSTON DOES IT (By “ Homovie.") A city-wide contest has been announced in Boston by the Little Screen Players which will conduct the contest in co-operation 'with Boston dealers in amateur movie equipment. The contest closes this month, and all amateurs within a radius of 50 miles of Boston will be eligible to enter films. It is not expected that films will be especially prepared for the contest, but rather that each amateur will submit the film that he regards as his best no matter when it was made. The purpose of the contest is to learn the general quality of films that have been made by Boston amateurs and to discover the most able amateur cameraman in that district. If the winners of this contest are not successfully challenged by the winners of another contest in another Massachusetts city they will receive the League’s bronze medal and will represent Massachusetts in the New England contest, meeting with the victors of the recent Connecticut contest as well as the winners of other State contests that may be held in the meantime. Connecticut is champing at the bit in eagerness to meet the amateurs of another State, and it seems that the league’s regional silver medals for the best amateur films will be first awarded in New England. The rules of the Boston contest are as follow: —1. Persons resident within a radius of 50 miles of Boston and on Cape Cod, who do not depend for their living upon cinematography, are eligible; members of the Boston Little Screen Players are excluded; (2) range of subject matter not limited: (3) entries not to exceed 400 ft., 16mm., and a contestant may not enter more than one film; (4) titles may be made by professionals, but the contestant must be the author of their content; (5) the board of governors of the Little Screen Players or a committee to be chosen by it will act as judges. Awards will he made to the contestants receiving the three highest ratings.

ADVICE FROM PRODUCERS The amateur should by no means neglect to give his attention to those attractive and informative bulletins which are issued monthly by a number of firms prominent in the cinematic field. These include the “Cine-Kodak News,” “Filmo Topics,” “De-Vry Movie News” and the “Cine Art Amateur Movies News.” In this way one may garner valuable information regarding his own particular apparatus and may also find material which will supplement that which he finds in these columns. The July issues of these bulletins all interesting, as, for example, the “Cine-Kodak News,” which contains such articles as “Settings for the Home Photoplay,” “Hints on Kodacolour Composition,” “Novel and Amusing Trick Stunts” and several interesting news features. Similarly “Filmo Topics” contains a detailed description of the fine points of the new Filmo 70-D, “An Outing with the Filmo,” by J. Dubray and “Filmoing Nature,” by Bertram G. Bruestle.