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By
HARRISON
HASKINS
The Johnsons sailed from San Francisco on the Ventura on April 8th. They landed at Sydney,
Australia, and then journeyed on to the New Hebrides Islands in the Pacific. Reaching the seat of government at Vila, Johnson refitted his fifty-foot schooner, the Osa, and sailed away into the unknown with his wife. With them went one hundred police boys, (native soldiers), loaned by the government.
ARer touring the New Hebrides and Solomon Islands in their schooner, the Johnsons are going to touch New Guinea, the Celebes Islands, Borneo and Sumatra, cruise thru the Sulu Sea to India, sail thru the Indian Ocean to Africa, come up thru the Suez Canal, touch Egypt, Arabia, Italy and Spain, and finally reach England. It will then be but a jump back to New York. All this will take two
carefully selected films showing trains, elephants, giraffes, etc., pictures of street scenes in New York, Paris, London, and other cities, magical films and a lot of slapstick comedies. Charlie Chaplin is included.
“The savages apparently fail to grasp where we come from or where we go to,” said Mr. Johnson. “Each tribe seems to think that the world is limited to its individual surroundings. They utterly fail to understand the magnitude of the globe. Possibly these pictures will illuminate their simple minds; at least it will be an interesting experiment.”
Besides the varied assortment of film, Mr. Johnson is taking back the motion pictures he secured on his last trip, and he is going to show Chief Nagapate, the cannibal chieftain of the Big Number Islands, a view of himself.
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years.
The Johnsons took twentytwo trunks from New Y^ork. Within these galvanized and nickeled trunks, ecjuipped to combat the tropical rust, are three motion picture cameras, 75,000 feet of unexposed film, packed in special tins after a secret method devised by the adventurer, a Pathescope projection machine made to order for showing pictures in the tropics, and an electric generating outfit for furnishing the necessary “juice.” In addition to all this, Johnson took along
Above, South Sea cannibals giving the Johnson motion picture camera the “once o V e r.’’ Left, Mrs. Johnson and Chief Nagapate, the savage king of the Big Number Islands. Lozver left, Mrs. Johnson about to take a morning d i p on a Pacific steamer. Sharks make it impossible to go overboard. so a tank is built on deck
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