International Review of Educational Cinematography (Jan-Dec 1931)

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962 — cious films was always the first care of the expedition party. One night while they were camping near the Uganda Falls there was a tremendous hurricane, the river overflowed and the camp was flooded. Almost all the supplies were carried away by the current, but the members of the expedition succeeded in saving the precious ten boxes containing the film. Several of the party lost all their personal baggage on this occasion. " Trader Horn " is the first authentic film of African adventure taken on the spot. Mr. Van Dyke's remarkable photographs are among the best photographic documentary evidence of the mysterious regions of Central Africa. The heart of the Black Continent has been reproduced in its most impressive aspects, for the information of the whole civilised world. The scenes showing the life of the wild animals in the jungle are among the most interesting, also from the scientific viewpoint. The gigantic gorillas which inhabit the mountain recesses of Nigeria, the hippopotami, asleep on the surface of the water under the tropical sun, the herds of rhinoceri charging furiously against real or imaginary enemies in the valleys of the Nile, the elephants snorting through the jungles, scattering destruction on their path, contribute to make a fantasmagoric film ensemble, such as has never before been achieved. The turning of these scenes was not unaccompanied by danger for the actors and operators. Duncan Renaldo, when fleeing from a herd of elephants which he had induced to rush to wards the cinematographic machine, sprained his ankle badly. On another occasion a group of photographers who were in a canoe on the Blue Nile were upset by crocodiles which had surrounded the boat, and were only saved with great difficulty. Numerous accidents of a similar kind occurred during the turning of Trader Horn. Edwina Booth, was rescued from the embrace of a huge gorilla which was about to suffocate her, by the bullet of an Englishman, who had accompanied the party. On one occasion the party nearly had a fight with a whole tribe of pigmies of the Belgian Congo, which had been engaged for some scenes. The chief of the tribe almost lost his sight by staring too intensely at the arc lamp, and consequently blamed Van Dyke, accusing him of magic. The expedition covered about 35.000 miles and faced innumerable dangers. The I.E.C. is glad to have an opportunity of presenting this film to its readers as a magnificent document of adventure and an important cultural and scientific contribution to the history of the moving picture.