In Hollywood last week, the American Society of Cinematographers awarded to two amateur cameramen the prizes which, for owners of miniature movie outfits, correspond to the awards which the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences give to cinema professionals. To R. B. Clardy, a Los Angeles commercial artist, went $250 for his 200-ft. film, New Horizon. A 20-year-old Japanese, Tatuschi Okamoto, who won the photography award two years ago, last week took $100 second prize with a picture called Tender Friendship.
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