Word: elephantic
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Kernel of Greatness. Today, at 64, Flaherty reaps the rewards of a pioneer who has never stopped pioneering. Before Nanook, factual films were mostly travelogues-patronizing glimpses of exotic peoples in far-off places. Flaherty concentrated on the struggles of man against his environment. Because of his choice of settings...
Among the musty stuffed owls, elephant skeletons and glass-eyed bears at Bonn's Koenig Museum, Western Germany's leaders met last week. They displayed more unity and guts than anyone had had a right to hope three months ago.
Ain't Hay. In Arlington, Ohio, Railroad Telegrapher A. A. Hall threw the day's receipts into a boxcar instead of a baggage car, didn't discover his mistake until an elephant had eaten $117.45.
Sir John Reeves Ellerman might be mistaken for a wealthy dilettante. He acts in little plays with his own theater company, in his own private theater. He is fond of odd pets, which have included several porcupines and an elephant named Charlie. He has his own private orchestra, which plays...
After that came elephant-hunting for the films, and one job for the camera that not even the author can understate. The stunt: to shoot a lion as he leaped at the hunter from ten yards or less.