Moving Picture Age (1920) . .On their way to the top the goats came within fifty feet of ourcamera. If they had been rehearsed they couldnt have played theirpart any better. All of them passed by just where we wanted themto and several, transfixed by the sight of two men and a cameraback of the rock, stood stock still for several moments gazing rightinto the lens. The guides, who were dead shots, dropped two of thegoats directly in front of the camera. We could have slaughteredthe whole herd. But I had given positive instructions and afterfour were down the guides stopped shooting. When the go
Moving Picture Age (1920) . .On their way to the top the goats came within fifty feet of ourcamera. If they had been rehearsed they couldnt have played theirpart any better. All of them passed by just where we wanted themto and several, transfixed by the sight of two men and a cameraback of the rock, stood stock still for several moments gazing rightinto the lens. The guides, who were dead shots, dropped two of thegoats directly in front of the camera. We could have slaughteredthe whole herd. But I had given positive instructions and afterfour were down the guides stopped shooting. When the goat picture was thrown upon the screen in Chicagotwo months later I was still surprised that we had obtained , I should not want to undertake to film another wild goatherd. We spent the rest of the summer taking other wild animal pic-tures for the Rothacker Outdoors series and secured some finescenes of bears, buffalo, mountain sheep and other creatures of thewild- April, 1920 MOVING PICTURE AGE 23 C\Pr^. SC\£NC£. NDUSTRY SOCIOLOGY CpjOMaHEIIATOCRAPHY^,
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