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COMPETITittN RESULTS

The subject "Local Scenes" for the
October competition, proved im-
mensely popular and the high stand-
ard of work submitted rendered the
task of selecting the prize winners
a difficult one for the panel of judges.
They were, however, "unanimous in
their award of the first prize of £5
to Mrs. F. Wall of Letchworth. To
Mrs. Wall, a previous prize winner,
every praise must be accorded for
the manner in which she dealt with
the subject. Her film opens with a
boy turning the pages of a book of
views of Letchworth, and as each
page was turned her camera record-
ed the actual locality. As Mrs. Wall
sta'ted when acknowledging her
award, she found it necessary to use
a fresh technique from anything pre-
viously attempted. "So you see, your
competitions make us try out some-
thing different". A splendid 60ft.
film well conceived and executed.
The second prize of £2 2s. is
awarded to Mr. B. Haylock of Enfield
for his effort, again a 60ft. film which
opens with a shot of an announce-
ment of a stupendous competition,
and his subject proceeds to photo-
graph the local scenes for this pur-
pose. The enthusiasm and industry
is tremendous and he adds a comedy
touch, finally dropping his camera in
a pond in his anxiety to obtain the
perfect local scene. Cine filming to
a plan out of the ordinary, producing
an amusing record. He is seen here Special prizes of £I Is. each have
fishing his camera from the pond. been awarded to Mr. A. C. Booker,
of Ashwell, and Mr. R. L. Carter, of
Kidderminster. In both these in-
stances their productions are straight
filming of local scenes, of beauty with
effective use of angles, light and
.show.
How pleasant is our reward for the
efforts to raise the standard of film-
ing and to avoid waste of film. A
little thought and definite apprecia-
tion will always achieve better results,
which is our initial objective. I