Word: amazone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...moving picture account of Dr. Hamilton Rice's latest expedition up the Amazon River is to be the University Film Foundation's first release, and will be shown for the first time at a meeting of the Harvard Travellers Club in the Geography Building on Monday night...
...scientific security, decided last week to make his next expedition primarily and frankly a sporting matter. There are de luxe steamship cruises, "dude" ranches. His next trip will be a "dude" expedition. Twelve men will go with him from Ecuador across the Andes and down the Amazon to the Atlantic this winter. Each man will pay $5,000. That will cover all his expenses and equipment except clothing, cigarets and liquor. He will have a personal Indian valet; will get travel. Inca exploration, fishing, hunting, mountain-climbing, a four-month vacation. No women, not even Mrs. Dickey will go along...
...success makes the world smaller for explorers. Only the airless peaks of the Himalayas, the cold hearts of the polar ice-packs and a few large jungle-guarded areas of the Amazon basin have escaped the eye and tread of civilized man. Only a few other regions have escaped man's mapping and surveying instruments: the vast forests and swamps of northeastern Siberia, the fastnesses of northeastern Tibet, the bandit-infested northern reaches of the Gobi Desert, the sandy centre of Australia, the eastern slopes of the unmapped Andes, the vast Patagonian icecap stretching over South America...
...more films, prepared under the auspices of the University Film Foundation, will be released later in the month. The first of these, entitled, "Citizenship," shows the interdependence of civilization in general, how agriculturalists depend upon manufacturers, cities upon the farmer, and vice versa. The second, "Rice's Amazon," is an all-talking picture featuring the quest for the source of the Amazon River, under the guidance of Hamilton Rice, a well-known traveller and explorer...
...second talking picture of the University Film Foundation, titled, "Rice's Amazon," is expected to be ready for release in the early part of the spring. A. H. Rice '01, who directed the picture, has spent much of his time in the Amazon region, and is now an authority on living conditions and customs along the Amazon. Starting at the month of the river. Mr. Rice and his party paddled up the Amazon in canoes, taking pictures of natives and the surrounding country. A number of "shots" are taken from airplanes which served as provision carriers during the expedition...