Educational film magazine; (19-)

there were few reall}- good opportunities for pictures. Once a cow moose was heard coming to the river, grunting to her calf to follow her. They filmed her as she swam the river, but the calf had dropped behind and when it saw the canoe.s dodged back into the woods until they got by, then foDowed. By this time tlie men could see tlie fire in the woods on both sides of the river; but , fortunately this was scattered, being started here and there l)y embers from the main fire far to the soutliwest. They separated tlie canoes, and as now and then a. spruce tree on the river bank could be seen to burst into flame, and the heat and smoke were getting worse, they soaked their clothing in the river and covered their faces with wet handkerchiefs. Then they ran for it. I guess there were times when they found it pretty hot, for the river averaged only about 100 feet wide. An hour later and they might have had to turn back up the Montbray and portage overland next day through the forest to Lake Dasserat. But they got out to the lake without even a singe, and by that time the northwest wind and tlie shower stopped the fire's advance. Had the same wind blown from the south they could not have come out to the lake, or might have been caught in the river between two fires. "Actually, the big fire which they had seen to the southwest of Lake Dasserat had not entered the reserve. The fire they encountered on the river was one of the numerous small ones which were started by embers carried from this big fire when the wind freshened and swung to the west. Fortunately this wind died down at sunset and the showers that followed probably put out rnany of the small fires. "They ate their supper on their island in the lake, then broke camp, and started out in the dark and the smoke to return to our camp at Pine Point. Of course they could not tell how much fire there was in the reserve and it was not until the day following and the smoke lifted considerably that we were able to see that the only big fires were the two around Labyrinth Lake. "How the Couchai brothers could find their way among all those islands in the dark and the smoke is past my understanding. But most of the guides have remarkable qualifica- tions as woodsmen and could hear or see a moose in the water at unbelievable distances. Got All The Moose Films They Wanted "We now had all the moose pictures we wanted, .so decided to rest up for a day and then pull out. David McKenzie, the Hudson's Bay Company factor at Abitibi Post, with an Indian canoeman and a man Saiigstcr had left in charge of the launch, came in looking for u.s, after themselves having for a time been lost in the smoke. The surface of Lake Da.s- serat was black with burnt debris from the fires, the spruce needles and burnt deciduous leaves forming a scum. This liglit stuff is car- ried liigb in the air by the heat of the fire, and if there is a winil it then travels for miles. It is the liifs of bark .ifid small sticks wbieli con- tinue to burn tlial si irt other fires. "On our return (lown the Kanasula Ulver we got more pictures of moose, and found them seemingly as undisturbed as If there were no fires at all. A lone fire ranger passed us, on his way to find out what he could see of the fires so as to report them. Up in that vast country, when a big fire gets headway, that is about all they can do, and they reserve their fire-figliting forces to protecting cut pulp wood, mills, settler hemes and towns. "When we left Lake Abitibi, on the trip out, we ran into fire on both sides of the Wliitefish River. This fire had gotten out of hand and was threatening a sawmill and the homes of some settlers, but it could not get much worse than it was, for the district had been pretty well chopped over. Nevertheless, it matlp a mighty hot fire in some places, and we had to hold to the middle of tlie river and cover our faces with wet handkerchiefs. "Of course this was but one of the experi- ences a motion jiicture man has to expect, and in fact often deliberately undertakes, in the course of his work. To get good close-to- nature educational film it is necessary to take things as they come. Plans must lie made months in advance and long distances traveled, and when it comes to the show-down men are required who have had experience and will stick, r am glad to say we had that kind in our party, and although the going was rougli some of the time, the work hard, and the weather abominable, there wasn't a quitter in tl.e bunch and we came back with the goods." ]>',ducational films were shown once a week during the past summer session of the I'niverslty of Michigan, at Ann Arbor, Mich. 9 9 For teaching anatomy a British surgeon has designed nnotion picture films showing' the operation of bones in a human skeleton and muscular and abdominal reflexes. 9 9 The fish hatchery at Paris, Mich., was filmed recently and the entire process, from egg to grown trout, was embraced in the pictures. 9 9 The school auditorium of Ardmore, Okla., and several other Oklahoma schools have re- cently installed motion picture equipment. 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