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In the first place, the wagons would follow the shortest route and the horses would be none the worse for an easy day; in the second, if by the remotest chance the Colonel flushed anything worth while, he could more easily find the cameras.
A day or so later, stops having been made to permit the boys to film certain scenes they wanted, the tug reached Gamboa, where they stopped, to plan a trip into the interior. Then, one morning, with their cameras loaded with film, they started off for a brief trip into the jungle.
Hadley," answered the manager, as the producer walked over to the two boys who stood near their cameras waiting for the word to be given, when they would begin grinding out the long reels of celluloid film. "This is positively the worst production I've ever been in!" complained Mr. Hadley to Blake.
Guns, cameras, food, tents, bedding, dishes, were trifling losses, and the horror of that day was turned to joy by the crowning mercy of its close. "'I won't forget you when we reach the Landing, Rob! were, the meagre words that rose to my lips, but the tone of voice supplied what the words might lack.
Before him two arc lamps threw a bluish white light on a set representing the interior of a finely furnished room. Between the lamps were two cameras which were being cranked by two tall young men in khaki trousers and leather puttees who wore the peaks of their caps turned backward like children playing "fireman."
And the wind was sweeping vigorously across the open summit of the mountain. I put in my smallest stop, and prepared for short exposures. My instrument was a thing called a Tourograph, which differs from most other cameras in having the plate-holder on top of the box. The plates are dropped into a groove below, and then moved into focus, after which the cap is removed and the exposure made.
He stepped out into the corridor, and was now lost to view. The next moment, to the surprise of Blake and his two friends, there came a knock on their own door, and a voice asked: "Are you within, young gentlemen of the cameras? I am Lieutenant Secor!" Sudden and unexpected was the knocking, and it found the boys unready to answer it.
She had done all sorts of odd jobs in order to earn her longed-for cameras, and had studied them well. Sometimes when the girls talked of the future when they would go to college, Shirley's face became clouded, for her father's poor health made it impossible for him to be steadily employed. Shirley's chances of college seemed very slim.
"They'll have to get up the day before breakfast to beat Pop Snooks!" exclaimed Russ, admiringly. All was now ready for the big cavalry charge. "All ready!" came the order from Mr. Pertell. "Cameras!" And the cranks began to work, reeling off the sensitive film.
"Well, now we'll start." If either Blake or Joe felt any surprise over the hurried visit, at the last minute, of Mr. Alcando's friend, they said nothing to each other about it. Besides, they had other matters to think of just then, since now their real moving picture work was about to begin. "Better get our cameras ready; hadn't we, Blake?" suggested Joe. "I think so," agreed his chum. "Now, Mr.
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