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"Dawn over Kali" on a path through a rice paddy; sonic of the native kids used village shots in INew Guinea; New Guinea canoes. Pari of the Heel of 125 used a South Sea picture.
compared to our present day methods. Entire sequences were shot from a single camera setup and without a lens change. The camera was an unwieldy box affair about three feet square mounted on a fourlegged platform with two-by-fours for legs. Levelling was accomplished by the use of wedge shaped sticks.
My first follow or pan shot was made by putting bed castors on the bottom of the camera. The castor wheels were guided in a circular track made of two willow saplings tacked to the three-foot-square tripod top. A two-by-four was nailed to the side of the camera for a pan handle. I believe I was one of the first cameramen to make a successful pan shot and the first to popularize the pan or trucking shots now so common in every present day picture. I know I was the first photographer to use an Akeley camera in either newsreel or photoplay production.
It was over twenty years ago that I made the startling follow shots of the auto races at the old Sheepshead Bay track on Long Island, the first Akeley shots to be used in a news reel and about the same time I used the Akeley on a picture called "Ann of the Green Gables," with Mary Miles Minter, and directed by William Desmond Taylor.
The whole Akeley idea was so radically different from the photographic methods used at that time that the skeptics sadly shook their hands and remarked: "It is just a passing novelty." But nevertheless, out of its introduction evolved the slip head tripod, without which a picture today just couldn't be made.
Speaking of cameras, among the many I have used are the Moy, Pathe, Schustig, Ereneman, Universal, DeBrie, Sept, Russell, Eyemo, Gaumont, Neuman-Sinclair, Bell & Howell, Mitchell and a couple of my own make. The Bell & Howell and Mitchell are now the world standard and are used by all good cameramen everywhere. In my wanderings, I have found them in some really out of the way spots.
People often ask me if I don't get tired of these treks; if this roaming around doesn't get monotonous at times. No, not when one is afflicted with an insatiable curiosity to know what's just around the corner; what is on the other side of the mountain; what is over there in the forest; what is up, or down, that street or how far one can see from the next hill, and, too, the exciting things that happen every once in a while keep a person alert as to what may occur next. And of course there is that yen to record everything in a motion picture camera.
Would you be bored if caught in China's "No Man's Land," between two opposing armies, both popping at you with automatic rifles? That I escaped with a whole skin was due to their atrocious marksmanship.
One time after making camp on a small atoll in the Fiji Islands we found that the coral cliffs under which we camped were