Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 143, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 July 1917 — SNAPS BIRDS FOR MOVIES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

SNAPS BIRDS FOR MOVIES

Norman McClintock of Pittsburgh, well-known naturalist and ornithologist, is shown here with his movie camera all set to photograph birds at close range. He pitches his tent near the nest and stays there for hours Inside it in all sorts of weather. To keep the dick of the camera shutter from scaring his subjects, he installs a tlcktocking metronome In the tent The metronome, used wherever young hopefuls bang the piano, ticks so constantly that the birds soon pay no attention to 'it and its noise drowns the dick of the camera. , *'