HOME MOVIES

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 801, 23 October 1929, Page 16

HOME MOVIES

“Homovie” Home movies have arrived. Newspaper and magazine cartoonists have started to make fun of them. Someone'once said that nothing -was really popular until it broke into the comic strips, and Henry Ford used to pay for every joke concocted about his car. Now comes a half page of cartoons by Bruce Russell, on our favourite hobby from the “Los Angeles Times.” Some of his amusing views call for repetition. Hefty Wife: “What d’ye mean I’d make two of any ordinary woman?” The Husband: “Merely trying to imply, my dear, that you can act as your own double in the movie we are making.” “So you’re a gag man now!” “Yeh, I gagged my wife to keep her from making a talkie!” * * 4: Then there is one picture in which the covers are being snatched from grandfather’s bed, much to his irritation. The caption says: “This is the only sheet the right size for a screen, Grandpop! You go to bed too early anyway! ” And the further comment reads, “Everybody should try to contribute his bit toward the entertainment.”

Production of “Panic” by the Film Guild of London has been temporarily postponed and a short scenario, not as yet named, substituted. The film will present the reactions of a new waitress on her first clay at a busy restaurant. Irene Allen is playing the waitress; Orlton West wrote tbe script and is directing; C. Diplock is the cameraman; Lydia Jiburtovich, assistant-director; H. P. J. Marshall, supervisor and editor. The Film Guild has screened “Extra 9413,” and “Loves of Zero,” by Robert Florey, “The Magic Clock,” by Ladislav Starevitch, “Poodabaer,” produced by Basil Wright and Michael Bonavia, and “The King’s Doom,” made by Hiss Wadham, to demonstrate how medieval massiveness could be secured by close-ups of small parts of sets in a little studio. * * si* In Newliaven, Connecticut, the graduates of the Newhaven Evening High School have formed the Lincoln Cinema Club. The first production will be titled “The Midnight Owl” and will use the Newhaven Evening High School as a background. It is planned to hold public screenings of the finished film in carder to finance prizes for the best students in the graduating classes.

AMATEUR’S SUCCESS An amateur movie maker spent last year taking pictures in the foreign missionary fields and this year is “booked solid” from one end of America to the other, showing to church people and others conditions exactly as they are. In many instances Ms are the first movies ever taken in that section of the world. In every instance he has been able to secure unusual views, even of those countries which have appeared on the screen before. This photographer is the Rev. George Holt, of Newport Beach, California, a Baptist minister who has successfully served various parishes. He made the pictures and is giving the illustrated lectures under the auspices of the missionary board of his denomination. He has been a pioneer, blazing a new trail. Judging by bis success, he will have many followers. For years the camera has been his hobby and he had developed a technique in handling it which nearly brought him into the professional class. He has been particularly successful with colour photography and had established himself as a popular stereopticon travelogue lecturer, with the pictures he had taken himself as the slides. When the movie machines for amateurs were put on the market he was fascinated by this new field in his favourite sport, and he secured one of the best and most complete outfits obtainable.