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33: 146: 137:. Cherry Kearton contributed photographs to seventeen of Richard Kearton's books, and wrote and illustrated a further seventeen titles of his own. He made the first phonograph recording of birds (a nightingale and a song thrush) singing in the wild in 1900; took the first film of London from the air in 1908, and the first footage of hostilities in the First World War at Antwerp in 1914. Cherry and Richard Kearton are perhaps best remembered for the development of naturalistic photographic hides, including the hollow ox of 1900 and the stuffed sheep of 1901. 544: 553: 58:. They developed innovative methods to photograph animals in the wild and, in 1895, published the first natural history book to be entirely illustrated by wild photographs. Richard was made a Fellow of the Zoological Society of London and Royal Photographic Society. Cherry later became a wildlife and news filmmaker, and friend to Theodore Roosevelt. The 199: 258:
Crane, Walter; Kearton, Richard; Kearton, Cherry; English, Douglas; Ward, John J.; Lockyer, J.S.; Irving, Henry; Fitzgerald, H. Purefoy. 1912. The Nature Book - A Popular Description by Pen and Camera of the Delights and Beauties of the Open Air. Profusely illustrated with Photographs and numerous
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Cherry and Richard Kearton shot a number of 'shorts' of birds and animals for Charles Urban in the years 1905–1908. From 1909, Cherry moved into the field of wildlife documentary film making, shot on visits to Africa, India, Borneo, the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. He directed more than
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Kearton, Cherry. 1929. My animal friendships;: The adventures of Timmy the rat, Chuey the cheetah, Robin Parker the mongoose, Mr. Penguin, Jane the elephant, and Mrs. Spider. Dodd, Mead and Company.
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Cherry Kearton specialised in animal photography, having taken the first ever photograph of a bird's nest with eggs in 1892. In the summer of 1896 he and his brother, a naturalist, reached the
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Cherry married Mary Burwood Coates in 1900, with whom he had a son, named Edward Cherry, and a daughter, Mary Nina, known as Nina. They divorced in 1920, and he married
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camera, which led to superior results for this light, one-hand-operated equipment was better suited to wildlife cinematography.
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and Richard was a farmer in Swaledale, Yorkshire, until 1882, then manager of a publicity department at the publishing house
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With nature and a camera; being the adventures and observations of a field naturalist and an animal photographer
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thirty films for his film companies Cherry Kearton Ltd and Cherry Kearton Films Ltd., including the following:
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Kearton, Cherry and James Barnes. 1915. Through Central Africa from East to West. London: Cassell and Company.
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Watch the Birdie: The Life and Times of Richard and Cherry Kearton, Pioneers of Nature Photography
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Kearton, Cherry. 1931. The island of Penguins. Robert M. McBride & Co., New York: 1931.
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Kearton, Richard. 1898. Wild Life at Home How to Study and Photograph it. Cassell, London
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Dassan: An adventure in search of laughter, featuring nature's greatest little comedians
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until 1898. He married Ellen Rose Cowdrey in 1889 and had three sons and two daughters.
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Kearton, Cherry. 1913. Photographing Wild Life Across The World. J. W. Arrowsmith Ltd.
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The Keartons photographing a bird's nest, 1890s. Cherry is on Richard's shoulders.
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Kearton, Richard. 1922. Wild Nature's Ways Cassell and Company, Limited, London
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Kearton, Cherry. 1929. In the land of the lion. NY: National Travel Book Club.
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Kearton, Richard. 1901. Strange Adventures in Dicky-Bird Land, Cassell, London
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Cameras into the Wild: A History of Early Wildlife and Expedition Filmmaking
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Kearton, Cherry. 1932. The animals came to drink. Longmans, Green & Co.
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Direct From Nature: The Photographic Work of Richard & Cherry Kearton
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Direct From Nature: The Photographic Work of Richard & Cherry Kearton
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Kearton, Richard. 1907. The Fairyland of Living Things. Cassell, London
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Kearton, Richard. 1911. The adventures of jack Rabbit. Cassell, London
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coloured plates by famous artists. Cassell and Company, London.
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Kearton, Richard. 1912. Baby birds at home. Cassell, London
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Kearton, Cherry. 1934. The Lion's Roar. Longmans, London.
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Kearton, Cherry. 1926. My friend Toto. Arrowsmith, London
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Kearton, Richard. 1913. Our bird friends. Cassell, London
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and many other remote places. In 1898 their famous book,
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Kearton, Cherry. 1926. My dog Simba. Arrowsmith, London
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film camera on tripod, but around 1911 he switched to
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Cherry Kearton

FZS
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wildlife photographers
Royal Geographical Society
Cherry Kearton Medal and Award
Thwaite
North Riding of Yorkshire
yeoman
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Cassell & Co.
Ada Forrest
soprano
Royal Geographical Society
Cherry Kearton Medal and Award
Outer Hebridean
St Kilda
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A Primitive Man's Career to Civilization
Roosevelt in Africa
Lassoing Wild Animals in Africa
Wild Life Across the World
With Cherry Kearton in the Jungle
Dassan: An adventure in search of laughter, featuring nature's greatest little comedians
The Big Game of Life
Kinemascope
Aeroscope
With nature and a camera; being the adventures and observations of a field naturalist and an animal photographer

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