CHAPTER XI $ 



A cameraman's troubles 



I MUCH doubt if any one who has not tried it has 

 any conception of the difficulty connected with 

 making wild animal pictures. To see all kinds of 

 wild game roving about on the screen, most of the 

 time seemingly unaware of the presence of the 

 camera and the cameraman, often deludes the 

 spectator into thinking that after all it is rather easy 

 to photograph them. 



Herein art and skill defeat themselves. The 

 better an animal picture is made the less exciting it 

 appears to be. The easiest thing to do is to shoot an 

 animal with a high-powered rifle at a comfortable 

 and safe distance, or to run it down with a motor 

 car, picturing the process and its excitements. The 

 hardest thing is to pictiu-e that same animal in a calm 

 undisturbed state of nature. But that is the most 

 important thing that the camera can attain. 



I can well remember our first trip to Africa years 



ago. We arrived during the driest part of the dry 



season. All along the railway line from Mombasa to 



Nairobi, Osa and I saw thousands upon thousands 



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