Salt Lake Telegram | 1930-10-19 | Page 27 | Noted Professor Visits Depths to Get Color Films

Noted Professor Visits Depths to Get Color Films M r 5 r. r yi r- r y i r f 4 j 0 C 4 Dr Cr A. A C. C noted Pillsbury camera scientist i is shown above preparing preparing pre pre- paring to don do a divers diver's helmet and descend into the ocean to photograph photo graph submarine submarino plant and animal life By SHERMAN MONTROSE SAN NEA For NEA-For For Forthe tho the first time American theatregoers theatregoers theatregoers theatre theatre- goers wilt will soon be bo treated to natural natural natural nat nat- ural color undersea photography of the tho submarine plant and animal life lite In and around tho the South Seas Dr A A. A C. C Pillsbury noted Berkeley Berkeley Berke Berke- ley camera scientist is back home after a a. four tour months' months expedition into tho the South Seas where the doctor shot some Borne feet of motion picture films and more than 1000 still pictures under the tho surface o otho ot of tho the Pacific ocean Encased in a n. divers diver's helmet but bu wearing ont only a bathing bathing- suit to prot protect protect pro pro- t ct his bod body the scientist would descend from the side of ot a sma small boat and shoot the life lICo b by means of ot a a. special waterproof camera equipment FISH ARE CURIOUS Among m n other othel things I teamed that fish arc are about as curious a as human beings said Dr Pillsbury when he arrived home bome on tk the tho Matson liner Sierra Soon after I wont over the sid side a of ot the boat and set my camera camera cam cam- era on the tho ocean floor Door tho the fish C would begin to tOI gather around and peek into the windows of my h helmet There were so many that I could not see and I was tor forced d to brush them away with my hands Soon after being brushed away the curious fellows would be back again trying to get a a. look at me Between brushes of or my hands however however how how- ever I managed to get some most extraordinary lInary pictures of undersea life Ute and arid coral formations Fortunately Fortunately Fortunately For For- there were no sharks d devil dovil devilfish vU fish or barracuda amon among my unInvited un uno Invited In guests FILMS FIRE WALKERS Dr Pillsbury sailed for Honolulu on tho Malolo four months ago After shooting botanical subjects on the tho Island he sailed to Suva Fiji where ho was commissioned by a n. scientific publication to take tako colored and still pictures of rare submarine specimens of which the waters abound Dr Pillsbury said that on the Island of ot Benga Bensa he lIe managed to film the rare and closely guarded FIre Walkers' Walkers ceremony an annual re religIous religious religious re- re fete feto peculiar to Benga It consists of ot a a. pit of hot coals seventeen seventeen seventeen sev sev- enteen feet teet in diameter over which the natives walk with baro bare t feet et The coals are hot bot enough to burn shoe leather but the natives walked ed across tho the glowing embers embers' unflinchingly The Tho Berkeley camera scientist Is famous for tor his lapse time motion pictures of ot plant life liCe In the caso case of ot several flowers lowers he has fumed filmed the tho growth of or a bloom from pollina tion to maturity His most recent triumph prior to the tho expedition to the South Seas consisted of X-ray X motion pictures in lapsed time showing the he reaction of body tissues tiB- tiB sues of or small laboratory afflicted with various dl diseases ea es