Cherry Kearton

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Cherry Kearton (born July 8, 1871 in Thwaite , Yorkshire , England , † September 27, 1940 in London ) was a British naturalist, author, filmmaker and photographer. He is considered one of the pioneers of nature and animal films .

Life

Kearton was the son of John and Mary Kearton, nee Hunter. Both his father and grandfather were ornithologists . He grew up in the Yorkshire Dales with his brother Richard, with whom he later worked frequently . In 1892, the Kearton brothers took the world's first photograph of bird eggs in a nest. In 1895, British Birds' Nests was the first natural history book to be illustrated with animal and nature photographs. In the summer of 1896 Cherry and Richard Kearton visited the Outer Hebrides and St. Kilda . In 1898 the Kearton brothers published the work With Nature and a Camera at Cassell in London . 160 recordings were used for this. In 1900, Kearton made the first bird call recording of a nightingale and a song thrush in the wild using a phonograph . In 1903 the Kearton brothers showed the first short film about birds with the help of a bioscope . In May 1908, Kearton and Percival Spencer flew in an airship over London, the first film shot of the city from a bird's eye view. In 1909, Kearton accompanied James L. Clark (1883–1969) from the American Museum of Natural History and the US President Theodore Roosevelt to British East Africa and the Belgian Congo , where the films Native Lion Hunt , African Animals and Roosevelt in Africa were made. For these films, Kearton made recordings of kingfishers and other non-passerine birds, chameleons, hippos, jackals, maraboos, vultures, black and white colobus monkeys, buffaloes and a Maasai war dance . In 1914, Kearton filmed acts of war in Antwerp during the First World War .

Kearton was married twice. First time with Mary Burwood Coates, with whom he had a son and a daughter. After his divorce in 1920, he married the prominent South African soprano Ada Forrest in 1922.

On September 27, 1940, Kearton died near the BBC broadcasting station in London after appearing on a children's radio show.

Honors

In 1967 the Royal Geographical Society donated the Cherry Kearton Medal and Award, which honors nature photographers and filmmakers in the field of nature film.

Works (selection)

  • with Richard Kearton: British Birds' Nests: How, Where, And When To Find And Identify Them. 1895.
  • with Richard Kearton: With nature and a camera being the adventures and observations of a field naturalist and an animal photographer . 1898.
  • with Richard Kearton: Wild Life at Home: How to Study and Photograph It.
  • with Richard Kearton: Our Bird Friends - A Book for All Boys and Girls. 1900.
  • Wild life across the world. 1900.
  • with Richard Kearton: Strange Adventures in Dicky-Bird Land. 1901.
  • with Richard Kearton: Wild Nature's Way. 1903. (German: Animal life in the wild. Photographs of animals living in the wild, 1905)
  • with Richard Kearton: Pictures from Nature: Fifteen Rembrandt Photogravures of Birds and Beasts at Home Amidst Their Natural Surroundings Reproduced from Photographs. 1905.
  • with Richard Kearton: The Fairyland of Living Things. 1907.
  • with Richard Kearton: The Adventures of Cock Robin and his Mate. 1908.
  • Kearton's Nature Pictures. Volumes 1 and 2. 1910.
  • with Richard Kearton: Nature's Carol Singers, Illustrated with Photographs Direct from Nature. 1912.
  • Through Central Africa from East to West. 1915.
  • At Home with Wild Nature. 1922.
  • The Shifting Sands of Algeria. 1924.
  • My friend Toto. The Adventures of a Chimpanzee and the Story of his Journey from the Congo to London. 1925. (German: My friend Toto. Biography of a chimpanzee, 1927)
  • My Dog Simba. The adventures of a fox-terrier who fought a lion in Africa. 1926. (German: My dog ​​Simba. The adventures of a Fox Terrier, 1935)
  • My happy family: the adventures of Mary the chimpanzee, a Fox Terrier and a mongoose. 1927.
  • My Happy Chimpanzee - The Adventures of Mary, the Wonderful Chimpanzee, at the Seaside. 1927.
  • My Animal Friendships. 1927.
  • In the Land of the Lion. 1929. (German: In the land of the lion, 1934)
  • The Island of Penguins. 1930. (German: The island of 5 million penguins, 1932)
  • The Animals came to drink. 1932. (German: Pallah: An animal life in African wilderness, 1933)
  • The Lion's Roar. 1934. (German: The animal in the fire mountain. Destiny of a negro village, 1935)
  • Adventures with animals and men. 1935.
  • I visit the Antipodes. 1937.
  • My Woodland Home. 1938.
  • Cherry Kearton's Travels. 1941.

Filmography (selection)

Film scene from the film Roosevelt in Africa (1910)
  • 1907: Wild Birds at Home
  • 1907: Sea Bird Colonies
  • 1907: Reptiles and their greedy ways
  • 1908: Haunts of Wild Birds
  • 1910: Roosevelt in Africa
  • 1910: Native Lion Hunt
  • 1910: Scenes in Massua
  • 1910: Rambles in Africa
  • 1910: Native Lion Fighting
  • 1910: Cairo to Khartoum
  • 1910: Arnst Versus Barry
  • 1911: A Journey to the Inner Africa
  • 1911: Lassoing Wild Animals in Africa
  • 1911: A Primitive Man's Career to Civilization
  • 1912: the miracle
  • 1913: Capt. Cherry Kearton's Wild Life and Big Game in the Jungles of India and Africa
  • 1916: Operations of the British Expeditionary Forces in East Africa
  • 1925: Life in the Sudan
  • 1926: With Cherry Kearton in the Jungle
  • 1930: Tembi
  • 1930: Dassan: An Adventure in Search of Laughter Featuring Nature's Greatest Little Comedians
  • 1935: The Big Game of Life

literature

  • Obituary: Cherry Kearton . In: Townsville Daily Bulletin. September 28, 1940.
  • John Bevis: Direct From Nature: The Photographic Work of Richard & Cherry Kearton. Colin Sackett, 2007, ISBN 978-0-9537048-6-6 .
  • Matthew Brower: Developing Animals: Wildlife and Early American Photography. University of Minnesota Press, 2011, ISBN 978-0-8166-5478-9 .
  • Palle B. Petterson: Cameras Into the Wild: A History of Early Wildlife and Expedition Filmmaking, 1895-1928. Mcfarland & Co Inc., 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-6166-0 .
  • John Bevis: The Keartons: Inventing Nature Photography Uniformbooks, 2016, ISBN 978-1-910010-09-9 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Derek Bouse: Wildlife Films. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000, ISBN 0-8122-1728-4 , p. 54.
  2. ^ Henry Robert Addison, Charles Henry Oakes, William John Lawson, Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen: Who's Who. A. & C. Black, 1918, p. 1308.
  3. ↑ Palle B. Petterson: Cameras Into the Wild: A History of Early Wildlife and Expedition Filmmaking, 1895-1928. Mcfarland & Co, 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-6166-0 , p. 74.
  4. ^ A b John Bevis: The Keartons: Inventing Nature Photography. Uniformbooks, 2016, ISBN 978-1-910010-09-9 , p. 8.
  5. ↑ Tom Griffiths: Forests of Ash: An Environmental History. Cambridge University Press, 2001, ISBN 0-521-81286-0 , p. 108.
  6. ↑ Frank Dorritie: Handbook of Field Recording Handbook of field recording. Artistpro.com, 2003, ISBN 1-931140-20-0 , p. 16.
  7. ^ A pioneer and an inspiration. In: Yorkshire Post. February 23, 2007.
  8. ^ A b Palle B. Petterson: Cameras Into the Wild: A History of Early Wildlife and Expedition Filmmaking, 1895-1928. Mcfarland & Co, 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-6166-0 , p. 76.
  9. ^ Luke McKernan: Yesterday's News: The British Cinema Newsreel. British Universities Film & Video Council, 2005, ISBN 0-901299-73-1 , p. 31.
  10. ↑ Who's Who. Volume 71, A&C Black, 1919, p. 1371.
  11. ↑ Woman Singer Who Turned Explorer. In: The Courier-Mail. January 2, 1936, p. 16 , accessed July 4, 2017 .
  12. ↑ a b WildLife film history: Cherry Kearton
personal data
SURNAME Kearton, Cherry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British naturalist, writer, filmmaker and photographer
DATE OF BIRTH July 8, 1871
PLACE OF BIRTH Thwaite , Yorkshire , England
DATE OF DEATH September 27, 1940
Place of death London