CHARGED BY A MAN-EATER.

King Country Chronicle, Volume XVIII, Issue 1857, 4 September 1923, Page 7

CHARGED BY A MAN-EATER.

FILM MAN’S THRILLS. A rhinoceros .charging the camera at full tilt and collapsing dead within a foot of the operator,. “close-ups of the antelopes, gazelles, baboons, and jaguars—thees are but a few of the more outstanding features of a new fi]lm. The production of “The Cradle of the World” is the result of a two years expedition, covering a distance of 5000 miles, into Central Africa made by the Swedish Biograph Film Company. The party started ironi Mombasa in ] 919, travelling inland to Nairobi. One of the first “shots” taken was that of a dead zebra. Immediately its death was spotted by a. vulture, that keenest-eyed of all tropical scavengers gave the signal to innumerable other birds—kites, eagles, and the like —who fell in their hundreds on tho fresh carcase. Jackals joined in the least and, after fighting, the birds are seen to rise again in the air and tlieie is left nothing but a few picked bones —and this within a few moments. Through Nairobi the party moved across arid wastes of desert, to the Victoria. Nyanza. It is not often that an English audience can see a man-eating lion charge the camera. The first rifle shot fails, and the second, and then—a. blank. One only knows afterwards what has happened by a picture of one dead lion and a wrecked camera. Many of the pictures of animals, especially tlie more timid, were taken with a telephoto lens. Others, such as the charge of the rhinoceros or the orgy of the birds on the body on the dead zebra, were taken at comparatively close range.