Close Up (Jul-Nov 1927)

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CLOSE UP are too frequent altogether, and usually stunted and unreal. Perhaps the best ever were some of the mechanical prehistoric creatures from the Lost World. Too much praise can hardly be given to the man who constructed and worked them. If producers of live animals would only take a tip from this ! The actual monkey in that film was very well photographed, and had a "part" that did not overstrain the credulity. Large apes are not seen, because of their tempers. Otherwise they would make good film subjects. Chimpanzees are the only apes, probably, that could be employed safely, and one does see them occasionally. Mongooses, it is said, can be trained and taught tricks. There again is an opportunity. Of the films taken of actual animal life, some wonderful photographs were secured in a film of Abyssinian travel produced by Ufa, and Mr. Cherry Kearton in his last one had the finest picture of an African Rhinoceros that perhaps will ever be seen. He illustrates a hunt, and after the animal has been captured takes a close up of it. To have taken it must have involved a considerable risk, as rhinoceri are highly dangerous animals to deal with, whether in wild state or captivity. These are just a few suggestions, and no pretence has been made to explain the characteristics of any of the suggested varieties. Sufficient to say that a close and sympathetic study of any one of them would reveal rich possibilities, both in the way of education and entertainment. Someone may 45