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January, 1924
AMERICAN CINEM ATOGRAPHER
Five
Stampedes and Camera Pits
Farewell buffalo stampede on
•n -n i r> i-» ac/^1 American continent described by
Bu Paul P. Perru, A. b. C ...
A. S. C. member operating in pit.
Grouped about the pit are, left to right: Mr. Smith, park superintendent; Reeves Eason. director: Jim. the park warden; Arthur McLennon, personal representative for Thomas Ince; and John Ince, director. Below, in the pit, is Paul P. Perry, A. S. C.
Thirty or forty years ago a farmer in Montana had 704 head of buffalo which was too large a herd for the range he had so he offered to sell them to the United States government. However, it took Congress so long to act on his proffer that he made a similar offer to the Canadian government which immediately purchased these monarch of the plains.
They were driven to the province of Alberta where the Canadian government established a dominion park to protect these and other wild animals such as deer, moose, antelope, elk and yak which were imported from India. This park, located a few miles from the town of Wainwright, was named "Buffalo Park." 704 Becomes 8000
Flourishing under government protection, the original herd of
704 buffalo multiplied until there were recently more than 8,000 head and what once was a sufficiently large park was a few weeks ago unable to supply enough range for so great a number of beasts.
Eliminate Old Bulls
To relieve this over-crowding to some degree, the Canadian gov
Cinematographers, crouching in pits, as hoofs pound overhead take chances greater than those of aboriginal Indians who rode at flanks of buffalo stampedes. Death imminent at every turn as stampede is filmed.
ernment decided some time ago to kill off 2,000 of the oldest bulls.
To Record Stampede
Thomas Ince, being acquainted with these conditions, arranged with the Canadian government, through his personal representative, Mr. Arthur McLennon, to make a historical record of the buffalo as it appeared once in its native haunts, how the vast herds were stampeded by the Indians in order to kill off enough of the animals to supply them with meat. It was particularly desirable to make a film record of the stampede such as it actually transpired in the primitive days which have slipped into the past. History tells us that nothing could stem the tide of a stampede once it had been set into motion.
In order to properly film the