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...success makes the world smaller for explorers. Only the airless peaks of the Himalayas, the cold hearts of the polar ice-packs and a few large jungle-guarded areas of the Amazon basin have escaped the eye and tread of civilized man. Only a few other regions have escaped man's mapping and surveying instruments: the vast forests and swamps of northeastern Siberia, the fastnesses of northeastern Tibet, the bandit-infested northern reaches of the Gobi Desert, the sandy centre of Australia, the eastern slopes of the unmapped Andes, the vast Patagonian icecap stretching over South America...
...more films, prepared under the auspices of the University Film Foundation, will be released later in the month. The first of these, entitled, "Citizenship," shows the interdependence of civilization in general, how agriculturalists depend upon manufacturers, cities upon the farmer, and vice versa. The second, "Rice's Amazon," is an all-talking picture featuring the quest for the source of the Amazon River, under the guidance of Hamilton Rice, a well-known traveller and explorer...
...second talking picture of the University Film Foundation, titled, "Rice's Amazon," is expected to be ready for release in the early part of the spring. A. H. Rice '01, who directed the picture, has spent much of his time in the Amazon region, and is now an authority on living conditions and customs along the Amazon. Starting at the month of the river. Mr. Rice and his party paddled up the Amazon in canoes, taking pictures of natives and the surrounding country. A number of "shots" are taken from airplanes which served as provision carriers during the expedition...
When the commercial demand for rubber first commenced, the happiest country was Brazil, home of the rubber plant which grows in wild abundance along the Amazon. In 1912 rubber exports from Brazil were second only to coffee, consisted of 43,000 tons with a value of $78,000,000. Brazil seemed entering a new era of prosperity; great public works were begun. But never again was 1912 equalled in Brazil. For in 1876 an Englishman, Sir Henry Wickham, had taken some rubber seeds to London, thence sent them to Ceylon. And by 1900 the Far East had exported four tons...
...Henry Ford undertook to grow rubber in Brazil. His idea was not to use the wild trees, but to clear the jungle, adopt the plantation method, use selected seeds. Great were the tales of what Ford Initiative plus Ford Ingenuity plus Ford Resource plus the fertile Amazon soil would produce...