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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MARCH 21st, 1931.

BEASTS OF THE JUNGLE FILMED,

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A fine tiger was the star of the jungle talkie which Jim Melinis, lower centre. and Kenneth Hawk, lower left, made in India. Upper right you see a picture of one tiger which performed for 745 feet of Mim. Melania is shown upper left as, unarmed, he photographed the man-eater from a hiding pince in the tall grass of the jungle. The camera equipment is

shown lower right bring loaded an an elephant's back for u

The dark shrill fastnesses of India have contributed new stars Lo the talking pictures.

have

who

Just returned

to America with the first sight-and sound record ever made in the dense tropic farests of India,

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tres into the forests.

zation became "official" mesSUJLES that is, they had red pepper and chicken feathers stuck in them to be to show that they were rushed.

Furred and feathered thespiana who can't be lured by contracts Won Ofelal Sanetton, have appeared in Improvised

They began their camera jour-į "Getting sight and sound films jungle studios before the whirring; ney in Hyderabad, The Nizam of tigers was the main goal of our cameras and dellente microphones himself--aid to be the richest expedition," said Melunis. "They of two young Amerlean adven

in the

world-ent word seldom are photographed in their turers.

throughout his native kingdominative haunts and never have ap that their trip was to be aided in peared in talking pictures before. every way. "Head men" of the Many hunters have spent villages greeted them with elabo than a your in the jungles with-

Lesser antives out so much as sening a tiger." rate ceremonies. fled in terror from the camera, which they seemed to think was

Their letters back to civili-

Four-legged actors who would rear no matter what the crites say about them and wouldn't de; your publicity as quickly as they would publicity men, are descrised by Cameraman Jim Meinnis and Sound Engineer Kenneth Hawk, gun.

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Society is having its ups and downs nowadays at the winter sports resorts in North America. A photogra- pher found everybody skiing at the exclusive Lake Placid Club, at Lake Placid, N. Y., and here are some of the fairest of those who are taking the hills (down-grade) on high. Elizabeth Lineberger, lower left, of Washington, found a snow- bank an easy place to land after an unsuccessful jump. Upper left are Miss Mary E. Giann, left, of New York; and Miss Patricia Schmidt, of Chicago. Miss Marion Gengler, of Forest Hill, L. I., is shown in the centre picture as she pushed off to coast down a mountainside. Upper right are Marrigue Gallagher and Elizabeth Knode, of Chicago, and below them are shown Betty Carpenter and Dorothy Aylesworth. At the lower right you see the star of a ski race, and left to

Miss Knode, Louise Adams, of Indianapolis, Ind., and Miss Lineberger. right are Miss Gallagher,

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they

Hawk was of stain buffalo.

struck down by n particular posed for them, all won't allow the carcasses

with darting tropic fever and fought for his life! unawares, for 745 feet of film- In Hyderabad, though they dug their women to go on the stage! Poisonous lizards

tongues hiding inside the skele for several days, The monsoons the longest moving picture ever tiger pits under deceptive grosses Their make-up boxes, about

of fallen animals,

Go came, with fierce rals and whirl made of a tiger-and gave them and laid in wait for weeks, they square yard in size, heid gaudy tons were unsuccesful. They photo paints and ash-dust talcum pow proud peacocks, whistling in fright ing winds, and tore down the grass the most exciting moment of their at the approach of leopards. i

trip. graphed scores of monkeys, swing".der."

hut in which they lived. Once the ing in the tree-tops and coughing to warn of the approach of tigers

but no tigeru.

"We moved on to Asifbad Road with three native servants," said Hawk. "Our trip was punctuated y the frequent sight of strange locking images-usunity of a man with an elephant's head, holding a plate of fruit in his four hands which the natives said were the guds of good fuck. We felt en jeouraged.

"We photographed a jungle re- vue, with native entertainers, that would make a Broadway producer jealous. Men played the parts of

They recorded the dry grasses Herds of fleet black buck rucinyalephant which was carrying thefri

over plains. ... All the wd bedium of the jungle,

Tiger Eluded Trap.

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The tiger, attracted by a slain of Assam crackling beneath the

Bound equipment chased the ele- buffalo, came to visit them unex-

They had phant carrying their camera equip. pectedly early huge paws of lurking, unseen beasts, Tree trunks cracking be

ment for several miles, and they guns, no weapons of any sort, and With fore the giant hends of bull ele-

In Assam, they trapped a tiger did battle with their tusks while their native servants fled.

only about 40 feet of tall dry grass phants in Cooch Behar. lowling at night in a stockade of bamboo the pecious leads tattered pre-between them and the tiger, Mein- panthers trapped in a circle of and wire, but the powerful animal cariously on their backs.

nis and Hawk stood their ground tame elephants. The vietous leaped over the seven-foot barri-

charge of gruating wild boars in eade in one bound and was gone

Finally, though, they found and photographed the man-ester Udaipur. A bout between a mon- before the camera and mike could their tigers by daylight. One in and recorded his ominous rour. goose and a crow, with the crow be put in place. Once, too, a n- winning the decision when he got tive chieftain walked into the Skies tiger trap by accident, the door hold of the mongouse's tail.

vul snapped shut behind him and it dark and loud with crying tures, fighting with each other, took a lot of diplomacy to explain and with screeching jackals over things to him the next day.

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