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Pictures and Pictvrepver
JANUARY 1925
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Captain Hurley's adventures witn a movie camera in
the tropical wilderness of Lake Murray where he
discovered the lost tribe of Sambios.
Travel films hold a special fascination for Britishers, in whom the pioneering instinct is so deeply ingrained. Who would not, if he could, seek out the far places of the earth, and the strange races of the earth? But these delights are for the few, not the many.
For the many there is the kinema, and entertainments like Pearls and Savages, which drew half England to the Poly Kinema, in Regent Street, London.
For Captain Frank Hurley, who with camera, wireless and seaplane, penetrated New Guinea and discovered the Lost Lake where the Stone Age Savage still
Below : Captain Hurley with a friendly Dogai of Evesi
ably hot, yet wonderfully beautiful, with a beauty entirely different from anywhere else on earth.
Hurley was the first white man the Lake Murray folk had ever beheld, and his aeroplane was taken by them for a new god, and worshipped accordingly.
He was fortunate however, in being able, not only to photograph the remarkable and somewhat gruesome
Top right : Skull trophies, with their grotesque ornamentations. Right : A skull shrine showing the various trophies.
dwells, re-told there his adventures whilst the film showing them ran its magic course.
This intrepid Australian, now only thirty-four has ranged all over the world on various exploring expeditions, including Sir Ernest Shackleton's to the Pole. There it was, amid ice and snow, that the project of "a Tropical Expedition next" was formed, but it was not until after the war that it matured.
It is a vivid record of these alluring parts of New Guinea, of Papua with its pearl divers and gorgeously coloured vegetation and coral reefs, of the vast swamp of Lake Murray, and of the aborigines who inhabit that lonely world.
In the midst of the vast swamp the lake lies, crocodile haunted and unbear