Evening star., 1940-06-16
Five Named 10 Pick
Winners in National
Snapshot Contest
Notobles Will Serve us
Judges in Competition
For $4,000 in Prizes

Five distinguished men have been
selecteI as jury to award the
$4,000 in cash to prize winners in
the sixth annual Newspaper Ma
tional Amateur Snapshot Contest
next October at headquarters of
the National Geographic Society
here.
The judges will make their selec-
tions from snapshots which will
have won regional prizes in all Sec
tions of the country, including this
area, where the contest is sponsored
by The Star. Some one in this
city has a chance to win the grand
prize Of ST. 500 or some of the other
national prizes.
Judges Include DIR. Olmsted.
The judges are:
DR.. Arthur J. Olmsted OF this
city. Photographic authority at the
Smithsonian Institution. He is
photographer for the National
Museum, in charge of its laboratory,
and also assistant curator of the
Section of Photography, Division
of Graphic Arts.
Norman Bel Geddes. internation-
ally famous designer and expert
photographer.
Kenneth Wilson Williams, pho
tographer and editor of amateur
publications of the Eastman Kodak
Co.
Frank Liuni, camera pictorialist
and president of the PHOTOGRAPHIC
Society of America.
Sir E. Wyly Grier, Canadian
painter and art critic.
Collection to Be Displayed.
The judges will view the collec-
ton of snapshots for selection of
the winner in Explorers Hall of the
National Geographic Society, where
they will remain on display for some
time
The Star will begin publication of
a weekly page of pictures in the
local snapshot contest in next Sun
days Rotogravure Section. Each |
week during the contest. up to Sep
tember 7, full page of the best
pictures will be published The
Star will pay IS for the best picture
each week and 50 for each of the
others published
The rules Of the contest follow:
!. The contest is strictly for ANA
teurs. Any one is eligible ex-
cept employees of The Evening
Star and their families and in
dividuals or members of fami-
lies engaged in the manufac-
ture, sale, commercial finish
ing or professional use of pho
tographic goods.
2. Entrants may submit as manv
pictures as desired at any time
during the period of the con-
test. (See paragraph g.
3. Pictures must have been made
after May IL, 1910.
4. Your snapshots may be made
on any type of film, but must
not be made on glass plate
negatives. Any make of camera,
hlm, chemicals or paper may
be used. Developing and print
ing may be done by photo
flnisher or the entrant, No
print or enlargement more
than 10 inches in the longest
dimension will be accepted.
No art work or retouching is
permitted on prints or the
negatives from which they are
made. No composite pictures,
such as multiple printing or
montages permitted. Pictures
should not be mounted or
framed
S All pictures shall be Judged in
the National Awards Gnclud-
ing the United States and
Canada solely on general in
terest and or appeal. Photo
graphic excellence or tech
nique, while important, Will
not be the deciding factor in
determining prize winners. The
decision of the judges shall be
accepted as final.
6. Before receiving The Stars
final prize of $25 in one or
more of the four classifica-
tions, the entrant must submit
the original negative with