| Show CAMERA MEN FILM VOLCANO I L. L W. W Clement A. A J. J and E. E N. N Rogers Get Pictures of Fire WAIT LONG FOR ERUPTION Patience Is Rewarded by Mile Mie of Blazing Lava That Conies Comes From Fron Lassen I I Playing watch atch log dog on a volcano and hoping hopin ever every minute that It would send forth a R stream of ot fire tire while other perSons persons per per- sons round about were In great fear CeRr was the experience of or L La W. W Clement A. A J. J and E. E F N. N Rogers of or Salt Sal Lake who have just returned from the vicinity of oC Mount I Lassen assen Cal Gal where pictures pictures pic pie they secured 2000 feet of moving tures of the tho volcano in action acton It I re required required re- re a month to got Jet the pictures as the trio was compelled to camp a short distance from Crom the mountain and keep a sharp lookout day and night for more than two weeks before the opportunity came to film the volcano In action acton When th volcano olano began showing signs of activity on May Ia 20 O Clement and Rogers Rogel's packed their moving picture equipment In an automobile and anti hastened across the desert and to tho the base of tho the mountain in northern Cal Cal- Cali Cali- fornia After a weeks week's travel thc they succeeded suc sue in reaching a point about seven miles from the volcano and there they mies established camp and took up the wa va watch There was hardly a la day during our fifteen days days' 1 vigil 1 that there thele W was S not nota a snail small eruption from Crom Mount Lassen said ald l smal Mr Clement But we ve were determined determined deter deter- 11 mined to get a picture of or the volcano in real action and finally our out efforts were rewarded b by the big bis eruption At this time the volcano gave warning of ot its act lt activity li b by heavy rumblings s and presently there shot forth a stream of ot steam present 11 ashes which were sent fully a mile in the air mie We Ve began besan grinding awa away wih with the movie movle machine In less than an hour however howe the entire entre atmosphere for tor miles mies around was filled filled- le with wih heavy smoke and dust which resembled a windstorm currying carrying ln great real quantities of dust We e succeeded In getting 2000 feet teet of oC film before the tho air ai became so 80 filled with smoke that It was impossible ble to take pictures We Vc then broke broko camp and started h home ore On our trip awa away from tho the mountain we mot met persons per per- sons song who reported ashes had fallen on an their farms arms twenty miles mies from the tho vol vol- cano Mr Clement and his as associates wi will start work this morning In developing de their film fim of or the volcano and anticipate showing It I In Salt S1 Lake In about a a week Later It will wil bo ho s sent to one of the tho picture companies producing films of oC current events to be shown in other parts lats OL or the time countr country |
