Six films of early exploration introduced from the Royal Geographical Society by Duncan Carse 4: Amazon Explored (1924)
A daring pioneer expedition to survey and film those remote and mysterious regions never before gazed upon by white man '. Using all the modern inventions of his day, including wireless and aerial reconnaissance and photography, Dr Hamilton Rice , the foremost scientific explorer of his time, forced his way nearly 800 miles up a tributary of the Amazon towards its source in the mountains. After an earlier expedition, Dr Rice had returned to be greeted by the newspaper headline 'ExPlorer Denies he was Eaten by Cannibals'. This time he lost men through fever and drowning, and had to haul his canoes through mile upon mile of cataracts and rapids.
Narrator BLAIN FAIRMAN
Assistant producer DAWN A. SWERLING Producer Richard ROBINSON