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Metropolitan Motion Picture Club of New York

Year Founded:

1929

Location:

New York City, New York, USA

Film Formats:

16mm

Notable Contests:

American Cinematographer Amateur Movie Makers Contest, 1937 - Equipment Prize, Victor Animatograph Corporation projects for the most interesting lighting effect.

Organized "Kodacolor Award - metropolitan Motion Picture Club Contest - 1930."

Sponsored Interclub contest in 1932.

The triangular contest between three amateur movie clubs in three different states — the Hartford, Conn., Amateur Movie Club, the Hudson County, N. J., Cine Club and the Metropolitan Motion Picture Club of New York City in 1930

Winner of Ditmars Club

Associated Filmmakers/People:

Charles J. Carbonaro

Charles Coles

Robert M. Coles

Hermann Danz

Martin E. Drayson

Charles A. Ferrie, Jr.

Robert F. Gowen

Frank E. Gunnell

Joseph J. Harley

Joseph F. Hollywood

Wilbur W. Krimpen

Duncan MacD. Little

Terry Manos

George Merz

George Mesaros

Walter Mills

Sidney Moritz

Russell T. Pansie

Ella Paul

Dr. G. L. Rohdenburg

Edwin Schwarz

Lewis B. Sebring, Jr.

F. Clark Tufaro

George A. Ward

A. M. Zinner

Resources:

Selected references:

Gale, Arthur L. "Amateur Clubs," Movie Makers 4, no. 6 (1929): 372:373, 414:420.

Gale, Arthur L. "Amateur Clubs," Movie Makers 4, no. 8 (1929): 520:521, 536:538.

Gale, Arthur L. "Amateur Clubs," Movie Makers 5, no. 2 (1930): 97, 116:121.

Gale, Arthur L. "Amateur Clubs," Movie Makers 6, no. 1 (1931): 28:29, 49:51.

Moore, James W. "Amateur Clubs," Movie Makers 7, no. 7 (1932): 299, 314:315.

Frequent references thereafter.