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Tom Swift & His Wizard Camera (Tom Swift Sr. #14)

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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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