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The Lion of * all Pictures of Hunting in the Jungle
AS INDISPUTABLY as the lion is king of /% the African wilds, so is Mr. and Mrs. Martin Johnson's TRAILING AFRICAN WILD ANIMALS supreme above any other picture of like subject ever attempted or achieved.
Not only does it bring to the screen such breathtaking scenes as rhinoceri charging with death in their wicked little pig eyes, of a herd of elephants crashing through the forest in a stampede upon the camera man, of lions brought down within a few feet of the hunters.
But also — you see Mr. Johnson and Mrs. Johnson themselves facing the beasts.
For the first time the hunter is seen risking his life with the wild beasts of prey.
Those who made the picture were closer to the big game of Africa than the camera was. The camera man used a telescopic lens which makes the animals on the screen appear to be within arm's length of the observer.
As for thrills —
Carl E. Akeley, of the American Museum of
Natural History, America's foremost authority on big game, especially African big game, wrote, after seeing Mr. and Mrs. Martin Johnson's TRAILING AFRICAN WILD ANIMALS:
"HPHE picture is by far the finest thing in wild -life pictures that has come out of Africa, or any other place for that matter.
"It is accurate and truthful, chuck full of beauty and thrills.
"It is the most thrilling picture I have ever seen."
Governor Gifford Pinchot, of Pennsylvania, at whose request Mr. and Mrs. Johnson brought their TRAILING AFRICAN WILD ANIMALS to the Executive Mansion at Harrisburg for a private showing, wrote:
"The picture is by far the finest big game picture I have ever seen. From the point of view of beauty and interest it stands all by itself.
"If anything more striking was ever filmed outdoors than the pursuit of those gigantic African elephants by little Mrs. Johnson, I never saw or heard of it."
Two years' time and two hundred and fifty thousand dollars were spent in making this amazing picture which has been cut down to give your patrons a lifetime of thrills in an hour.