Moving Picture News (1911) . MR. J. C. HEMMENT AND :\IR. PAGE JUST GOING OUT IN-FIRST FLIGHT our way to the summer AAhite House of PresidentTaft, at Beverly. About a couple of miles had been traversethe coast line when a flock of ducks was put to flight bythe whirring of the hydroplane motors, just in front ofus. Mr. Page gave me a nudge as much as to sayshoot em, and you can bet I shot. I trained my gunfcamera) on them for at least a thousand yards. Inthat time I calculated I eat up about a hundred feet offilm. I could have made more as ]\Ir. Page threw hisdescending lever into action and bro
Moving Picture News (1911) . MR. J. C. HEMMENT AND :\IR. PAGE JUST GOING OUT IN-FIRST FLIGHT our way to the summer AAhite House of PresidentTaft, at Beverly. About a couple of miles had been traversethe coast line when a flock of ducks was put to flight bythe whirring of the hydroplane motors, just in front ofus. Mr. Page gave me a nudge as much as to sayshoot em, and you can bet I shot. I trained my gunfcamera) on them for at least a thousand yards. Inthat time I calculated I eat up about a hundred feet offilm. I could have made more as ]\Ir. Page threw hisdescending lever into action and brought me down toabout one hundred and fifty feet of them, following. JUST BEFORE LEAVING THE WATER IX BURGESSHYDROPLANE them across the bay, always keeping them in the viewand focus of the easily adjusted camera. I believe this flight established a recprd in more waysthan one. Firstly, it has proved beyond a dottbt that{Continued on page 46)
Size: 1989px × 1256px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1910, booksubjectmotionpictures, booky
