Filming “Bounty” Scenes.
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Movie-Man on Pitcairn.
ACCORDING to a report from Auck land, Mr. Charles Chauvel, with his wife, recently reached there after spending two months on Pitcairn Is land, where a film of the mutiny of the “Bounty” was made.
The islanders gave Mr. Chauvel great assistance. The party had a narrow escape from drowning when landing on the island in a whaleboat during a gale.
A severe earthquake, which badly shook the island, was experienced on June 5.
Great landslides resulted, but there was no damage to the houses. It was the same day as that on which the earth quake occurred in Mexico.
Mr. Chauvel had many thrilling ex periences when taking films from whaleboats in heavy seas. One whale boat was wrecked on the rocks, but the occupants were uninjured. Mr. Chauvel said that the islanders were magnifi cent seamen. He is proceeding to Ta hiti to take further films.