Motion Picture Classic (Jan-Aug 1919)

! Taking Motion Pictures to the Cannibals SOMEWHERE in the South Seas a little schooner is beating its way before the trade winds. Above is the bright South Pacific moon and the Southern Cross, illuminating the restless seas for many miles, and, far away, on the horizon, are tropical islands, their coral reefs studded with palm-trees. The warm breeze, whisperering thru the sails, speaks of the mystery of life and death. This boat is the tiny schooner of the adventurous Martin Johnson and his plucky little wife, Osa. Johnson has been thru the South Seas twice before, once as a member of Before the Johnsons sailed away to the South Seas, they visited the Los Angeles film colony. Here are several pictures, especially taken for The Classic, showing them meeting Charlie Chaplin, Sessue Hayakawa and, last but not least, Doug Fairbanks Jack London’s famous Snark cruise and later with his wife on a trip of his own. On this last trip Johnson obtained some ^0,000 feet of motion pictures of savage life. These pictures are now^ being shown in this country under the title of “The Cannibals of the South Seas.” This third trip of Martin Johnson is his crowning effort. Not only is he going to obtain more motion pictures of the South Sea savages, but he is taking motion pictures to the cannibals. Picture to yourself a tropical island, a large sheet stretched between two palm-trees, rows of savages squatting in fhe open clearing and, upon the screen, the animated pictures of an express train rushing head-on. Can you imagine the amazement of the aborigines ? Or will they literally eat up the films and the exhibitors? II (Thirty-two)