Thanks for sharing. Amazing considering it happened at the beginning of the Depression. Those folks must have had a lot of money that wasn't dependent on the market.

I missed Kenya as it closed when I was a broke schoolboy. But have hunted Masailand in Tanzania and what's interesting is what has changed and what hasn't.

Obviously, there's a lot less of it now, nearly 100 years later. I took my wife on her first Safari in 2017, in Masailand and she dressed exactly the same, except no Pith Helmet, but felt broad-brimmed hat. It was totally out of nostalgia and watching "Out of Africa", but I went along with it. She enjoyed herself immensely. I wish the woman in the old film would quit pointing her rifle at people. Part of it is definitely from the old custom of climbing on the expired animals, which is no longer good form.

I've hunted fly camps that didn't look all that much different, but we had better vehicles and winches. Still cut a lot of branches when stuck.

No cell phones on the Masai back then; no water bottles.

Thanks again, but all I can say is go now. The opportunity is only going to continue to narrow.

Loved the film of the Ugandan Cranes.

The cameraman would have been her husband.

Lady Delamere and husband, accompanied by a PH perhaps?

The fellow appearing with the dead tusker is definitely an Askari in colonial uniform and very likely the game scout of yesteryear.

Just an observation.

Very nice.

Thank you for sharing.

So let's make this even more interesting. Thoughts on the rifle the lady was carrying? I am hardly the best person to venture a guess but the rear sight really made it look like a custom built on a 1909 Peruvian Mauser.

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Great old film, I think that is Gertrude Legendre.

Great film, Steve, and great article, Kathi. Thanks for sharing them! I'd love to get the back story.

The lady's rifle looks to me like a Mannlicher-Schoenauer, most likely a Model 1903 in 6.5 mm, as that rifle and caliber were very popular during the '20s and '30s.

But that is only a guess. It could just as easily be a Model 1905, 1908 or 1910 in 8 mm, 9 mm or 9.5 mm. Can't really tell without better and close up images.

In any case, she could certainly shoot it!

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Originally posted by Michael Robinson:
Great film, Steve, and great article, Kathi. Thanks for sharing them! I'd love to get the back story.

The lady's rifle looks to me like a Mannlicher-Schoenauer, most likely a Model 1903 in 6.5 mm, as that rifle and caliber were very popular during the '20s and '30s.

But that is only a guess. It could just as easily be a Model 1905, 1908 or 1910 in 8 mm, 9 mm or 9.5 mm. Can't really tell without better and close up images.

In any case, she could certainly shoot it!

And the 6.5 killed everything.

Before the silly arm chair hunters came along to say they are too small.

If it wasn't for current game laws, I would be happy hunting everything with a 6.5, and I can guarantee you the animals would never notice any difference.

And the lady isn't hard to look at either.