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Starting as a volunteer in my father's 12th Siberian regiment, I fought Germans for two years, when on a military assignment I was caught in the midst of a Russian revolution in St. Petersburg, the capital of Russia. I was forced to shoot policemen and counter-revolutionists. Discarding my rifle I drove a car, but one night being suspected as a counter-revolutionist — my car was riddled with thirteen bullets, my lucky number ever since. Escaping uninjured I quickly made a decision that the front lines were much safer than the main street in the Russian capital and so I found myself again fighting our enemies.
Civil war and retreat of the armies, found me in Vladivostock in 1918 where
George Krainukov, Universal staff cameraman, shooting Shanghai street scenes.
I joined the Y.M.C.A. motion picture department, and got my first experience in handling a Pathe movie camera. However, the arrival of the Red Armies in Vladivostock landed me in Shanghai, China. There I started as a cameraman on the staff of the British-American Tobacco Company. Soon after my arrival in China I was initiated into the newsreel profession, which became mv life work. During the days while I was with the B.A.T., which at that time was producing "shorts" and news pictures to aid their advertising department, I traveled all around the country in search of news.
In 1925 I joined a scientific expedition into the jungle of Fukien under the wellknown explorer Mr. Flovd T. Smith of the Field Museum of Natural Historv, Chicago. It was during this trip that I tasted the first of the adventures of a newsreel cameraman
Fleeing into the International Settlement.
when we were captured bv bandits while on our way up river from Foochow to Yenping. It was the hard bargaining with the bandit chief that finally set us free on the payment of $200.00 instead of $2,000.00. However, we struck bad luck and were captured again a week later. High in the jungle mountains in an abandoned Chinese temple, where we were imprisoned, I managed to get away with my De Brie camera, tripod. Graflex and two rolls of spare film. Did I run? I think I have beaten all the running records existing at that time, coming to Yenping soaked through with perspiration and with blood all over my shoulders from carrying the heavy equipment.
I also photographed the first real war pictures ever filmed in China when in 1924
Dead and injured on Nanking Road in front of Palace Hotel.