Kodak Magazine; Vol. 20, No. 7; July 1941
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"MORNING SILHOUETTE" IN THIS ISSUE Odyssey of a Famous Rover Page 1 The Editor's Page Page 10 As told for KoDAK by her skipper A ppreciation Behind the Scenes at Kodak Park P age 3 Facts About Visiting Canada Page 11 Off the beaten track, grindstones, etc. Prepared by the Dominion's travel buTeau Panorama P age 4 Did You Know? Page 11 J ottings fTom heTe and theTe We didn't Simon Bolivar-El Libertador Page 5 A New Conception in Camera Design Page 12 H e bToke the shackles that bound his land The Kodak Medalist is announced They Have Assumed New Duties P age 6 Color and Action Come to Life on Film Page 13 Noting thTee Tecent appointments An Eastman pTocessing station in action "S. and L." Appointments Page 6 Kodak Trouble Shooters Take to the Skyways P age 14 New pTesident; new boaTd membeT Speedy answeT to Nantucket call Activities In and Around the Plants Page 7 Out of the Hat P age 15 K eeping you posted on what's a-doing Soldier A Defense Film Page 7 Activities Calendar P age 15 I t shows how shells are made What's ahead for you "Kodak" Means First Page 8 Tenite Sets New Style Page 16 . some reasons why Up to the minute, as usual Copyrigh t, 194 1, by t he Eastman Kodak Company Trade-Mark K ODAK R egistered U nited States Patent Office Volume 20 JULY 1941 Number 7 Odyssey of a Famous Rover The Skipper of the Schooner " Yankee" Spins for KODAK The Yarn of Her Latest Cruise TH ERE WA S TRUE PlUDE in hi s voi ce and a li ght in his eyes as Captain Irvin g .Johnson spoke of his stou t ship Yankee, recently arrived home from her third world-cruise. "Sh e was built in Holland forty- four years ago as a government pilot- schooner and saw nearly thirty years' se rvice on the North Sea, as Load- schooner 4," the young veteran of the sea related. "Then an Englishman bough t her .as a yacht and named her 'Texel. I bought her from him in 1933, christened her Yankee, and fi tted her out for world-cruising. No other yacht has gone around the world three tim es." In the deck house of the globe-trotting schooner "Yankee," Co pta in Johnson plots the course. On her third world-cruise the stout ship covered 40,000 nautical miles, visiting more than 100 different places The Yankee sailed from Gloucester, Massachusetts, for her third world- Gloucester, bound for Haiti, the 81- Quito, one of the oldest cities in cruise at 2 P.M. on Sunday, October ton Yankee sailed through the center South Ameri ca. Then the Yankee 29th, l 939. She arrived home less than of two cyclones and bucked the force made the 750-mile run from Salinas to a minute over 18 months from that of a hurricane-rolling close to 45 the Galapagos in three days, and here day and hour. On her second voyage, degrees before she was hove to on one they experienced what Captain .John- she touched dock on the very second; occasion. In the harbor of Cap- son described as one of the high spots and on her first voyage she'd overshot H aitien, Captain .Johnson tried out a of his life. her 18-months' mark by 10 minutes ! new diving helmet and undersea "Albermarle Point is a rendezvous "That's the only schedule we set movie equipment. for tuna fishermen from San Diego, ourselves wh en we start out," Captain and we asked some of them if we could .Johnson explained, "and we try hard Undersea Pictures go out with them next day. They to make it right on the nose." "The only way I could bold myself told us to be ready about five-thirty. Sprinkled through the chronicle of quiet enough to use the camera at So we piled aboard before daylight. the Yankee's round-the-world odys- all was by tangling my legs in a seys arc more adventures than most "The Kodachrome movies I took mass of coral till they became so sailors- not to speak of mere land- are the only adequate medium of entangled I could hardly pry myself lubbers- experience in a lifetime. The describing the fishing. Lots of bait- loose when I wanted to," he related. stori es of the first two cruises have live sardines- are thrown out, and "But although the water was stirred been told by Captain and Mrs. when the tuna come around the up and dirty after the storm, some of .Johnson in their books, W estward fi shermen get out on a platform close the pi ctures taken in this first test Bound in the Schooner Yankee and to the water and fish with barbless came out remarkably well. " Sailing to S ee . Highlights of the third hooks and short lines, sometimes with cruise, covering 40,000 nautical miles, Crossing the Caribbean, they sailed just a wh ite rag on the hook, or with vi sits to more than 100 different through the Panama Canal and perhaps a sardine. places, were told fo r KoDAK by the headed down the Colombian coast to "For a time the tuna wou ld run geni al skipper, on a Rochester visit. Salinas, Ecuador, from where they fifteen to thirty-five pounds. Then, During the first week out from went overland to Quayaquil and to with no waming, in would swoop one- Page 2 K 0 D A K the flying fish became momentarily dazzled by the light, we would scoop them from the water with a long- handled net. Time and again, the fish would flop into the sail, crash against the canoe, or even hit us in the stomach. The eeriness of the blazing torches and flame-lit sails made the scene one we will never forget." Another South Sea Island, called Taputeuea, boasted what Captain Johnson believes to be the largest outrigger canoe in the world. The over-all length was 96 feet, with feet extreme beam and feet water- line beam. The canoe had a 40-foot tree for an outrigger. The planking was of an inch thick and sown together edge to edge with coconut- fiber sennit. "With eighty people aboard, there was stacks of room Awesome to behold is the Balinese kris dance, performed by an all-male cast, each member of which bran- left and they say they often have dishes the native dagger from which the strenuous workout derives its name. Photo by John Ha yes one hundred and eighty aboard," he reported. hundred and two-hundred pounders. ences in many countries have viewed If you were lucky you could notice these vivid travel records but no- "Tree Dwellers" the difference quickly enough to where perhaps more eagerly than on Langa Langa Lagoon, in the Solo- change your pole for different gear, Pitcairn Island. mon Islands, was another fascinating having one hook fastened to two or "I arranged to show them the stop on the Yankee cruise. three poles. Otherwise it seemed like second-world-cruise movies, using for "The natives live on little islands trying to stop a truck with your pole." power the generator of the radio," that they or their ancestors built on An ardent movie maker ever since Captain Johnson related. "These the reefs," Captain Johnson told. The he bought his first camera, a Cine- were the first movies ever shown on origin of such an island was generally Kodak, Model BB, in Hamburg, in Pitcairn, and the first most of them a large tree lodged on the reef, 1929, Captain J ohnson has exposed had ever seen. I don't believe a single collecting debris in its branches. more than 50,000 feet of Kodachrome person on the island missed the show, T hen some native outcast would tie on his last two cruises alone. Audi- and their reactions tickled us. The up his canoe to it and start living Kodachrome pictures of their own in the branches, gradually piling up Bounty Bay and of their own people coral rock to give himself more space gave them a tremendous thrill. " to live on. "When you went to one of these An Anniversary islands, it seemed more like going After visiting the Phoenix Islands- aboard a ship_ People seemed per- Canton Island is wonderful for under- fectly happy in their close quarters water photography, Captain Johnson and went on making their shell or reports- the Yankee arrived in Pago stone money, still used as currency Pago in time for flag-raising day, in this section. It is laboriously commemorating the fortieth anni- ground and polished by hand till versary of the first raising of the thinner than a dime. A hole is drilled Stars and Stripes in American Samoa. in the center with another sharp In t he Gilbert and Ellice Island stone, and the money is then strung groups- presumed locale of the dis- on a wreath." appearance of Amelia Earhart- Cap- The covered bridges on the island tain Johnson found what he believes of Flores, between Celebes and Timor is the only spot in the South Seas where they use sailing canoes to catch in the Dutch East Indies, along the flying fish at night. winding climb to that island's famous "It was the grandest sport-like colored lakes, reminded Captain John- something out of a dream. We would son somewhat of his own far-off New coast back and forth in the fast England covered bridges.