Close Up (Mar-Dec 1933)

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CLOSE UP 263 of their tunnel-shaped nest on a darkly shaded ledge, spattered at intervals by drops from a heavy torrent ; and an albinistic prairie falcon and nest (prairie form of the duck-hawk) now filmed for the first time. This falcon, and Mr. Wells' white captive opossum, suggest that the charm of whiteness varies — albino crows and rattlesnakes seeming belittled by their oddness, the white elephant being not a success and deserving added sympathy by reason of its prominence. One can imagine no more sumptuous effect, however, than the coat of this falcon tossed by the gale but undisordered — the hard legs, flattened head, and glass-black eye, setting it off. The sensation of these five reels perhaps was the continuous very close close-up of a long-eared (i.e. rabbit) owl — tiger-striping on red-amber body-colour — among well-twigged branches of a tree like the tamarack, with a shaft of evening sun slanting down from Mt. Evans ; both eyes flaming yellow but the eye in shadow, round with round pupil ; the one toward the sun — iris and pupil — narrowed to a vertical oval. The great horned owl and nest were shown, and various lesser owls ; the mammalogist of the party " making a trip every morning to the nests of the owls and in this way collecting mammals he could secure in no other way." Recalling, though not precisely of course, Captain Knight's merlin's nest with a " The Tragedy of Everest." The 1924 Expedition. War dour. " La Trage'die d'Everest." L'expt'dition de 1924. Wardour.