Obtaining strikingly novel reels of film shot with the Akeley camera appears to have had a particular influence on one trajectory of one of the institutions which oversaw these expeditions, the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH), where Akeley was employed. From 1916 on, the AMNH’s collections filled up exponentially with films made with the Akeley camera brought back from the Central Asiatic Expedition (1916-1925);[8] the Whitney South Sea Expedition (1920-1941);[9] the Faunthorpe-Vernay Expedition (1923);[10] the expeditions of Osa and Martin Johnson, such as those to Lake Paradise (1924-1926);[11] George Clyde Fisher’s expeditions to Sweden and Lapland (1924-1925);[12] and the expedition carried out by Ernest Thompson Seton in the American West (1927),[13] among others. Already in its annual report in 1924, the museum reported that there were no longer any expeditions it did not equip with this camera.
