Filming African Wildlife Expedition

Signs Publishing Co. · Melbourne, Victoria · May 31, 1920

FromAustraliasian Signs of the Times, Vol. 35, No. 22.

Filming African Wildlife Expedition

ONE of the most ambitious moving picture enterprises ever undertaken recently landed at Cape Town to take the long trail northward. It is wholly in command of the veteran naturalist-explorer, Edmund Heller, who represents the Smithsonian Institution’s interest in the animal collections to be made. Possibly the party is at this moment in the throes of an effort to get “the last films of the elephants of the Addo Bush Forest Reserve,” before that troublesome herd is blotted out by the pressure of civilisation. The filming expedition will work its way northward through Rhodesia, where comparatively little big game now remains, it will take the Falls of the Zambesi, the game of Nyassaland, and it will break new ground in what once was German East Africa there lies a bewildering maze of opportunities, and we may be sure that Mr. Heller will choose the best ones. Beyond doubt the expedition will secure great pictures and a great collection of animal specimens for the United States National Museum.