Filming wild beasts: Cherry Kearton interviewed – archive, 11 May 1914

11 May 1914: The British wildlife photographer tells the Guardian about filming animals unmolested and unharassed in their native wilds'

• The first man to hunt wildlife with a camera, not a rifle

I found Mr Cherry Kearton, who has just returned from crossing Africa with a kinema camera for the third time, in the private room of his London office (writes a representative of the Manchester Guardian).

He was endeavouring to conduct a business conversation on the telephone. Round him stood half a dozen merry friends, whose joy at welcoming him home was so ebullient that they refused to be serious. The author of several standard books was giving lifelike imitations of a roaring lion, while the others were laughing loudly at his performance.