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the scope of a four-walled playhouse. If the records were published, it would be found that Paul Rainey's "An African Hunt" has attracted the public to a greater extent, at higher prices of admission and for a more prolonged consecutive period, than any fictional theatrical or semi-theatrical release that came later.
I may find few to endorse my views, nevertheless I hold that it is such productivity of the camera man — and here the term is used advisedly — that will eventually prolong the amazing prosperity in filmdom. The realities of life not only prove the most compelling attractions with the public, but will enable one to point to the influence of the motion picture in the national life. The pictures of Captain Scott's unfortunate expedition to the South Pole illustrate as nothing else can the possibilities of a heaven-born new art, and when the final results are achieved from many expeditions of intrepid men and women in this year of 191^1 — some of which are conducted secretly, others requiring as much as two years of research and untold hardships for all concerned — then will be witnessed perhaps the spectacle of the two-dollar-a-seat motionpicture production, without an actor, without even a director, and without scenic or stage accessories.
There is no assumption that such productions can be evolved with the frequency requisite for exclusive use. No one dreams that in this century the photoplay, speaking literally, is to be wholly replaced by real-life films; but there is much to justify the belief that the greatest productions of the screen will be due to the unparalleled daring and persistent research of men and women bent upon revealing to mankind that which has never been seen save by the few explorers and scientists themselves.