Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - "Some one to see you, Mr. Tom." It was Koku, or August, as he was sometimes called, the new giant servant of Tom Swift, who made this announcement to the young inventor. "Who is it, Koku?" inquired Tom, looking up from his work-bench in the machine shop, where he was busy over a part of the motor for his new noiseless airship. "Any one I know? Is it the 'Blessing Man?'" for so Koku had come to call Mr. Damon, an eccentric friend of Tom's.
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Tom acts more as a simple tourist rather than as a major inventor,
By Charles Ashbacher (Marion, Iowa United States) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER) (VINE VOICE) (HALL OF FAME REVIEWER)
This review is from: Tom Swift and His Wizard Camera (Paperback)
Like the rest of the books in the original Tom Swift series, the inventions featured in this one are evolutionary rather than revolutionary. Written in 1912, the movie camera had been perfected sometime earlier in the labs of Thomas Edison, so Tom's role here is to improve it. Hired by a man named Period, Tom and his group fly in his airship invented in a previous book and travel around the world and use his "wizard camera" to film action movies to be played in theaters.
They film the movement of big game, a war between African tribes, avalanches in the European Alps and a volcano in South America. They have rivals hired by a competitor in the film industry, but the competitors are not very determined or ruthless. Therefore, there is no great intensity and the danger is more of location and circumstances rather than generated by humans. In some ways, the story here is an extension of the classic Verne story of "Around the World in Eighty Days." In this case, it is about observing the world and some of the wonders for display to the movie viewing public that is growing more interested each passing day. More an adventure than a story about science and technology, this Tom Swift tale has Tom making some foolish moves in order to get the best shots, in other words behaving like a tourist.
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