Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1915-01-02
P|CTUR|NG WILD
LIFE IN JUNGLE
Dangerous Exploits of Frank
Newman in Securing Films
For Moving Picture Shows
IT EASY To FOOL The BIRDS

But When II Comes to Lions, Tigers,
Leopards and Other "sich Critters"
Great Peril to Life and Limb Is In
voIved-Photographing Fishes.
NEW YORK. The cinematog
rapher on his hunts has to practice
more ingenious wiles than the sports
man with a gun ever dreamed of,
writes Garrett p Serviss. In his ef-
forts to put all the world Of ami
mails, in all parts of the earth, into
moving pictures, so that people who
stay at home can enjoy the sensa-
tons of the boldest and luckiest trav-
elers and explorers, he must manage,
somehow, to get close to his game"
without causing it the least alarm
or even suspicion.
If he wants to photograph bird-life
he goes back to the stratagem that
the crafty Ulysses used at the siege
of Troy, and introduces himself into
the midst of the unsuspecting birds
concealed in a wooden imitation of
some familiar animal to whose pres
ence they are accustomed Thus
Frank Newman, the English moving
picture photographer, uses the inter
ior of perfect artificial COW for hid
ing himself and his camera.
1t is only necessary to set the COW
up at some point where the birds are
accustomed to congregate and get in
nd ND nAlA
seem to be enough to deceive them,
and they are not troubled by the
motionlessness Of the pretended COW.
They do not possess that charac-
teristic quality of human intelligence
which draws differences from the
presence or absence of details.
Lying inside his cow with peep
holes through which he can survey
his surroundings and aim his camera,
the operator has only to exercise a
little patience and skill in order to
obtain films showing every incident
in what might be called the family
life" of the widest and most shy
birds.
This is work which, though of the
highest interest, involves no danger
and consequently produces no ner-
vous thrill for the operator. But it is
very different with another device
employed by Mr.. Newman. This lat
ter consists of an imitation rock
made of canvas and placed in some
sandy desert or jungle to catch such
formidable animals as lions, tigers
and leopards off their guard. One
cannot help a SILVER in thinking of
what the consequences would be If
the spied-upon beast of prey should
suspect something-its quick ears per-
haps detecting whir of the machine
and should make a leap upon the
canvas rock!
That Mr.. Newman's nerves are proof
against such tests seems to be indi-
Gated by a photograph in which a
leopard, the strongest animal for it's
size in existence, is seen playing like
a kitten with a huge jungle fowl
which it has just captured This
particular exhibition of wild life
lasted for 20 minutes, and Mr.. New
man not only cinematographed 1t,
but with an ordinary camera took
pictures on a larger scale.
Francis Ward of London employs
similar devices in order to photo
graph fish under water He makes
an excavation in the bank of pond.
forms chamber there, one of
which the water presses, and then
places himself with his camera in
the subterranean and subaqueous
chamber. AS the fish look into it
they are confronted with impenetra-
BILE darkness. but the hidden photog-
rapher, looking out, sees the fish as
plainly as II they were in an artifi.