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ally sorry. I look upon it with more disapproval than 
I can well state, for I think that many of the titles 
on the pictures are misleading and that some of the 
pictures fall into the same category. All naturalists 
welcome the spread of animal lore by motion pictures 
so that a knowledge of true natural history may be- 
come more general, and there is no better way to 
disseminate such information. But if in order to 
make a film a more hair-raising and popular picture, 
_ the moving-picture producer puts misleading titles 
on the pictures and resorts to “fake” photography, 
the harm they can do is just as great as the good 
they would otherwise effect. 
While most of us who are interested in true nature 
photography were feeling somewhat blue about Mr. 
Snow’s pictures, Martin Johnson came back to New 
York. Ue yame in to see me and I asked him what 
he was going to do about his titles. He was prompt 
and positive. He was quite willing to submit them 
all to the American Museum of Natural History. 
That was a big decision, for the Museum would not 
agree to the kind of titles which it was likely the 
moving-picture business might desire. This might 
militate heavily against his chance of selling the pic- 
ture, and in Johnson’s case selling the picture was a 
necessity, for all he had in the world and more besides 
was invested init. But he stuck to his decision when 
the pressure came and his film goes forth, the first ever 
endorsed by the American Museum of Natural His- 
tory, a credit to him and to the company distributing 
it. I feel that this is a great step. With this prec- 
