Sound Pictures of Dr. Hamilton Rice's Trip Up the Amazon To Be Shown Monday Night--Wild Animals and Natives In It

A moving picture account of Dr. Hamilton Rice's latest expedition up the Amazon River is to be the University Film Foundation's first release, and will be shown for the first time at a meeting of the Harvard Travellers Club in the Geography Building on Monday night.

The film, which was assembled with maps of the region by the Foundation this fall, gives a detailed sound record of the progress of the expedition from the mouth of the river to its source, and includes many shots taken from the reconnoitering plane, which was the first one to be used on such a trip.

Seven different kinds of water craft were used by Dr. Rice and his men, from steamboat to dugout, until finally the expedition was forced to walk the last part of the way Besides many wild animal studies, a series of pictures of the natives along the Amazon were made, while aerial photographs afford a complete and careful survey of the whole Amazon River valley.

Dr. Rice, who is now in charge of the new Geography Building on Divinity Avenue, has been making trips for 30 years into a rectangular region larger than the great Lakes district, around the northern tributaries of the Amazon. In the now film, his voice accompanies it with a detailed explanation of what is occuring, making the movie complete in itself, and making it possible to show it anywhere.

The meeting will be held in the now auditorium of the Geography Building, which is equipped with unique appliances for the projection of sound and silent moving pictures. A second showing of the film will be given at a meeting of the Harvard Geology Society on Wednesday, November 25.