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...four months Queeny traveled through Africa on an 8,000-mile safari, equipped with the blessing of Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History, ten 16-mm. cameras, including some for underwater and superspeed shots, specially rigged camera trucks and experimental directional microphones newly developed by the Bell Telephone Laboratories. After spending some $300,000 on the project, he brought 80,000 feet of color film back to his suburban St. Louis estate...
...ancient music of a tribe in Uganda, near Lake Victoria. He plans a feature-length "fantasy" showing how the Wakamba tribe hunts elephants with bow & arrow, another two-reeler about a strange signaling bird that leads natives to caches of honey, and possibly still another feature on the safari itself. Beyond that, Queeny wants to ride his hobby on another expedition. "I don't know yet where it will be," he says. "It will be some place where we can try to do things with film and sound that haven't been done before...
...members of an African safari are leaving for the Dark Continent this week. The group includes two members of the Class of '55, a Cambridge family, and a junior fellow...
...Safari members are Laurence K. Marshall; his wife, daughter and son, John K. '55; Cary McIntosh '55 of New York; and Robert Dyson, recently appointed a junior fellow. The group hopes to return in September...
This week, as Peggy faced the cameras in her first part in a new Katzman epic, Jungle Safari, her discoverer declared himself more than satisfied. "She has a wonderfully expressive face," he reported proudly. "She will be a big star." Her human fellow actors were already, complaining that the "damned ape" was stealing all the scenes...