Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1924-01-25
SHENANDOAH IN THE MOVIES.

| In the wake of the publicity which
has come about because of the natural
wonders with which the Creator has
endowed this Southern Eden the name
Shenandoah has become synonymous
with scenic beauty, and now the Shen-
andoah Valley is becoming known
all over the world.
There have been many contributing
forces to this far flung advertising, and
there can be no effort made by which
the world will know of the Shenan-
d oah Valley of Virginia greater than
the pub licity which will come through
the moving pictures made in the Shen-
andoah Caverns on Tuesday by re-
personalities of Hearst's international
News Service.
This service is part of the picture
program in movie theatres all over the
earth, and fans from Cape Town to
Calgary and from Terra Del Fugeo to
Taurreggen will have an opportunity
of seeing one of the worlds wonders
reproduced on the screen.
Two expert camera men were sent
to the caverns by the News Service,
both of whom are recognized as among
the best in their profession. These
men, Joseph C. Brown is in charge of
the Washington office and Herman
Strackhoff is an expert attached to the
New York branch
To the uninitiated the making of a
movie is revelation, and especially is
this the case when the exposures are
made underground, as they were in
this famous grotto of the gods. To get
the required light the brilliant incan-
descent illumination, which is already a
part of the cavern equipment, was sup
plemented by portable arc lights and
calcium fusees, the latter giving white
lights which made the subterranean
rooms and passages so luminous that
the smallest details iff the marvellous
formations were brought out, and the
grinding of the celluloid ribbon across
the cameras eye caught picture of
beauty which ten of thousands of
patrons of theatres will appreciate
and enjoy.
just recently one of the leading mag
azines has published story of the life
OF thrills led by the camera men con-!
nected with the pictured news which is
now part of screen entertainment,
and both Messrs. Brown and Strackhoffl
have shared largely in the perils incl
dent to their calling.
They are sent out with instructions
to "get the picture" and neither ex-
pense nor danger is taken as an excuse
for failure to bring back the scene
for which they were sent. They have
pieturized the rum fleet off the coast
of New Jersey, conflagations in DOZENS
OF cities, explosions, shipwrecks, mine
disasters, earthquakes and famines, but
this was their first experience in cav
ems, in fact it is the first time that any
of the worlds caverns have been
screened by film corporation. Both
of them were delighted with the ex-
perience and'when they left Shenan-
doah Caverns two more enthusiastic
boosters of the Valley and its unpara-
lelled attractions were added to the
thousands who are now advertising the
western edge OF the Old Dominion.
With the camera men was DR.. Willis |
7. Lee, one of the noted geologistsI
connected with the United States Gov
eminent and the observations made by
him will form the basis of an address
which he will later make to the Ma
tional Geographic Society.
DIR. Lee was recently sent by the
government to explore the great Carls-
bad Cavern in New Mexico, and the
account of this visit in the
January number of the National Geo.
graphic Magazine is the feature story
of that issue.