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Boculy had never seen a movie before in his life. 

 And up to that moment I don't beheve he ever quite 

 imderstood what our crazy wanderings over the hills 

 and plains had been about. But when he saw all our 

 adventures over again and himself in many of the 

 pictures he was simply stunned by the wonder of it. 

 He kept repeating " Ah-h-h! Ahh-h-h!'' He was 

 too full of astonishment even to put his emotion into 

 words. He never once took his eyes off the screen 

 and when he saw the elephants close up he was the 

 most excited person I have ever seen in my life. 

 The porters talked and yelled and '^Ah-h-h-d'' for 

 hours after the show. 



In closing this chapter let me say that after thirty 

 years of the screen the motion picture is only now 

 coming into real recognition as the paramount me- 

 dium of record for exploration and nature study. 

 The rapidly improving status of the expeditionary 

 motion picture, in both the lay and scientific mind, 

 and its growing audience, are of special satisfaction 

 to me — especially after having devoted nearly twenty 

 years of an interested but markedly strenuous career 

 to it. 



Most of the pioneering has been done. Hence- 

 forward we who work in this field have the somewhat 

 easier labor of building upon the foundation so 

 tediously, painfully and expensively laid in the past. 

 The real beginning was with Paul J. Rainey's now 



