Identifier: popularelectric619131chic (find matches)
Title: Popular electricity magazine in plain English
Year: 1912 (1910s)
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Subjects: Electricity
Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : Popular Electricity Pub. Co.
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e and put your hand near the lens, instantly the lens is 646 MOTION PICTURES 647 covered with a film of ice that no mere rubbing will remove. Sometimes moisture — condensing into the finest particles of ice —will get inside the lens — then you are through.A great danger anent the camera is the brasswork. If, by accident, you touch with your flesh any portion of the brasson the apparatus it will burn you like a red-hot iron. On one occasion the tip of my tongue accidentally came in contact with some of the brass work and instantly froze there. The shock was so great that I went over backwards, and when I recovered I found that I had lost the tip of my tongue, which remained frozen to the camera. I recall one instance when I thought every moment was my last. None of us were familiar with the immense Killer whales, and so when we sighted a school of them we hastened over the ice to film them as they were chasing seals. Two of the whales dived beneath the ice flood and then heaved upward, breaking the... IMAGE: Herbert G. Ponting. Mr. Ponting the photographer of this expedition and One of the Motion Picture Cameras
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IMAGE: Making Ready for the Dash to the Pole. Note the Cyclometer Wheel Behind the Sledge Which Measures the Distance 64S POPULAR ELECTRICITY and the WORLDS ADVANCE floe up for hundreds of yards. It was all I could do, with the assistance of my comrades, to regain the safety of firm ice. Once, while trying to film a pair of skua gulls at close range, I was attacked by the parent birds and one of them, swooping down, struck me such a blow in the eye with its wing that for an hour I suffered the most acute pain and at first feared I was most certainly going to lose the sight in that eye. - Of all the scenes photographed in the Antarctic that of Mt. Erebus in eruption was the most difficult to secure. It would have been folly to attempt to drag the heavy picture apparatus up the volcanos side, but by a stroke of good luck and through the special telephoto-lens, taken along especially to film events at a distance, a remarkably clear picture was obtained of this southern volcano inaction. On one occasion, said Mr.

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