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VOL. LXXXV 
SEPTEMBER, 1915 
No. 9 
Shooting Wild Game With The Motion Picture Camera 
Remarkable Series of Photographs Obtained in New Brunswick, Showing Native Game as it 
Really Lives A Sport that Requires Skill and Some Daring, But Which Will 
Never Deplete the Wild Life Resources of the Continent. 
By Frank Merton Buckland, Author of “Rhymes of Stream and Forest.” 
T HE motion picture camera has invaded 
nearly every field of interest and en¬ 
deavor. Thus the African game fields 
and the hunting grounds of the Arctic have been 
drawn upon to furnish material of interest to 
the theatre audience. 
To one who has hunted American big 
game it has been a matter of some surprise that 
the larger game animals of this continent have 
not been satisfactorily filmed. For this reason 
the trip, subject of this present article, was 
planned, our main idea being to photograph in 
their natural haunts the better known big game 
animals of the north woods. 
Having hunted extensively in Northern New 
Brunswick, and being familiar with its acces¬ 
sibility and excellence as a game region, we made 
arrangements with Chas. Cremin of Fredericton, 
New Brunswick, for a trip through his sporting 
territory in the heart of the game country. Mr. 
Cremin is well known to sportsmen who have 
visited this region and to those who have thus 
known him, there is no need to dwell upon his 
qualifications as a hunter, guide and ideal com¬ 
panion for a trip into the woods. The success 
of an expedition to take game pictures depends 
largely upon the guide chosen and the country 
selected. There must be game in the territory 
and the guide must be an adept at “stalking” or 
getting close up to the game as it shows itself. 
In the matter of a territory and a guide, we 
were particularly fortunate as it is doubtful if 
a better guide than Chas. Cremin or a better 
game country than his could be found in the 
United States or the Dominion of Canada. 
The territory decided upon lies in the moun¬ 
tain region drained by the Tobique, Nepisiquit 
and Upsalquitch Rivers, a region which is the 
natural breeding ground of large numbers of 
moose, caribou, deer and bear as well as many 
species of birds and wild-fowl. The country is 
dotted with many lakes and ponds, fed even dur¬ 
ing the warmer months, by ice-cold mountain 
springs. Many of the mountains are covered to 
the top by the forest growth, while others are 
treeless, giving growth only to low bushes and 
acres of gray moss, this latter forming the prin¬ 
cipal food of the caribou. The heart of the 
country lies at a distance of some eighty miles 
from the nearest settlements and is reached by 
means of canoes or by walking. 
The canoe trip in itself is one of the most 
beautiful in this country, the river winding by 
many twists and turns through the deep forest, 
the current now swinging on noiselessly and then 
suddenly rushing down a steep incline, boiling 
into white foam over hidden rocks and sub¬ 
merged boulders. The safe passage is accom¬ 
plished only by expert canoemen. The clear 
waters and mountain-lined shores of the beauti¬ 
ful Bathurst lakes lies in the very heart of the 
forest. 
The country in itself is well worth the trip, 
to say nothing of the wonderful opportunities 
which it offers in the way of fishing and game. 
The innumerable trout of the Bathurst lakes 
and Nepisiquit river into which the lakes flow, 
