The Moving Camera and Films on Shelves - Text 4
Many other people apart from the camera’s inventor were pleased with its existence, because it provided its operator with something that no other camera on the market at the time could: an image of the subject which was free from posing and avoided framing.[3] Once it entered production in 1916, the Akeley camera became a leading element of North American zoological expeditions of the first half of the twentieth century. It thus set out to encounter as many animals as the explorers who had equipped themselves with it made possible – and by extension to encounter the plants, landscapes and non-American peoples inhabiting these landscapes. For example, it was used on the Katmai Expedition of the National Geographic Society (1913-1919),[4] the H.K. Mulford Biological Expedition of the Amazon Basin (1921-1922),[5] the MacMillan Expedition to Baffin Land (1921-1922)[6] and the Crane Pacific Expedition (1928-1929),[7] among others.
