Evening star., 1951-06-24

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.est offers amateur photographers
opportunities to share in local
and national prizes totaling more
than $4,000 in cash. These rules
must be observed:
/. The contest is strictly for
amateurs. Employees Of The Star
and their families, and individ-
uals and members Of families en-
gagged in the manufacture. sale,
commercial finishing or profess
sional use of Photographic goods
are barred.
2. Contestants may enter as
many pictures as they wish at as
many different times as they wish
during the contest period. They
may not, however, enter photos
IN the contest Of any other news
paper participating in the News
paper National Snapshot Awards,
nor may they enter the same or
closely similar pictures in any
other contest.
3. To be eligible for prizes in
The Stars contest, and in the
18th annual Newspaper National
Snapshot Awards to be held later,
photos must have been made
since October !, 1850.
T. Any make Of camera, film
chemicals and paper may be used.
and contestants are not required
to do their own developing and
printing. But only unretouched
prints made from unretouched
original black-and-white mega
tives are eligible; prints from
copy negatives. glass plate mega
tives and color transparencies
ARE barred. Composite pictures,
multiple printing ana montages
also are prohibited. Enlarge
|ments are eligible. but must not
be more than 10 inches In the
longer dimension. Prints must
not be mounted or framed.
s. Pictures shall be judged on
Photographic quality, general in
terest and/or appeal, and the
judges decisions shall be accepted
as final. Each Sunday during the
contest, The Star will award a
prize Of $40, two prizes OF IS and
an honorable mention for the best
pictures published in its Pictorial
Magazine. At the close Of the con-
test, The Star will award a prize
of $25 for the picture judged best
In each of the four classes listed
below. These four photos will be
entered in the National Awards
to compete with the winners of
contests conducted by other Amer
ican and Canadian newspapers.
The 1877 prizes in the National
Awards. to be paid by the Eastman
Kodak Co., are:
Grand prize, $1,000: first prize
in each Of the four classes, $500;
second prize In each class, $3.50;
third prize in each class, $l00; 70
special merit awards Of $50 each ;
"a honorable mention awards Of
SIS each.
s. To enter the contest, mail as
many prints as you wish to the
Amateur Snapshot Contest Edi-
tor Of The Star. Washington 4, D
C.. any time between now and Sep.
tember /. On the back of each
photo. print your name, address
the title OF the, picture tif goos
one occurs to you). and the clas
In which you think it should b,
entered. lThe Star reserves tn
right to change both titles an,
CLASSES, however,
/ MPORTANT-Any picture of
recognizable person must be &C
compcnied By a signed statemen
from that person giving his or he
permission for its publication i,
The Star and entry in the Nationa
AUards. The address and phon.
number OF the person pictured also
must be giuen.
z. Do not submit negatives un-
til asked to do so by the Snapshot
Editor. No entries will be re-
turned. and neither The Star nor
the sponsor Of the National
Awards assumes any responsibility
for either prints or negatives.
8. Before receiving The Stars
|hnal prize in one of the four
classes, and becoming eligible in
the National Awards, the contest