Club des Amateurs Cineastes en France

Year Founded:

1932

Location:

Paris, France

Film Formats:

9.5mm, 16mm

Notable Contests:

International amateur movie makers competition held in Brussels, Belgium (1932)

Resources:

The founded date is the earliest mention of the club.

"An amateur film record of the funeral of M. Paul Doumer, late president of the French Republic, was presented in Paris at a recent meeting of the Club des Amateurs Cineastes en France. The picture, which was the work of Pierre Bonvoisin and S. Gronostayski, was synchronized with disc recordings of the address by Andre Tardieu and of the music by the several military bands, according to the report of Samuel T. Shaw, Jr., ACL, vice president of the club." (Moore 388)

Selected references:

Gale, Arthur L. "Amateur Clubs," Movie Makers 7, no. 1 (1932): 18, 31:34.

Gale, Arthur L. "Amateur Clubs," Movie Makers 7, no. 3 (1932): 104, 117:118.

Gale, Arthur L. "Amateur Clubs," Movie Makers 7, no. 5 (1932): 206, 222:224.

Moore, James W. "Amateur Clubs," Movie Makers 7, no. 9 (1932): 388, 403:404.

Moore, James W. "Amateur Clubs," Movie Makers 8, no. 11 (1933): 458, 474:475.

Frequent references thereafter.