THE MOTION PICTURE COMRADES SERIES
By Elmer Tracey Barnes

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"The romance of Motion Pictures -- how it is interwoven with America's life to-day!

When sturdy, stout-hearted lads determine to build their careers around Motion Pictures, it needs just such an author as Elmer Tracey Barnes to record their ups and downs, for Adventure is their ever-constant companion.

Likable heroes, rapid action and unusual settings for their stories -- these are the things that make these five tales so intensely popular with a host of eager readers."

    -- Saalfield advertisement

 

From The Motion Picture Comrades Along the Orinoco: "These three enterprising young chaps were walking leisurely along a street in Panama while chattering at such a lively rate. As some of my readers may not fully understand the subject of their conversation, it seems advisable to introduce Oscar and his comrades before going any further.

Oscar Farrar, Jack Anderson, and "Ballyhoo" Jones, otherwise Jonathan Edwards Jones, were chums who had latterly seen a number of remarkable episodes, as have been set forth at length in the three preceding volumes of this Series, to which the reader who desires to know the full particulars is referred. 

They all lived in the town of Melancton, situated in the Eastern part of the United States. Oscar's guardian was named Doctor Felix Clements. The boy had been elft quite a fortune, and as he showed a disposition to use due care in spending his money, he was allowed great latitude by the genial old physician, whose one hope was that Oscar would eventually follow his own beloved profession.

"Ballyhoo" Jones had come by his queer nickname through being gifted with a high order of mimicry. His ability to imitate a whole menagerie, as well as the barkers who shout at the entrances to the side shows, soon caused his numerous boy friends to look upon him as associated in some way with a circus; they commenced calling him "Barker," and finally this changed into "Ballyhoo," which in stroller language means the same thing.

Jack Anderson was possessed of a single yearning, which was to produce such remarkable motion pictures of strange things seldom dreamed of by ordinary people, that they would create a sensation. His father had been an artist along similar lines, and was lost for several years in the heart of Africa; but rescued in a most peculiar and thrilling manner by Oscar and his two chums, as related in an earlier book."

1. THE MOTION PICTURE COMRADES' GREAT VENTURE; or, On the Road with the "Big Round-Top" -- 1917. New York Book Co., Saalfield.
   
   
2. THE MOTION PICTURE COMRADES IN AFRICAN JUNGLES; or, Camera Boys in Wild Animal Land -- 1917. New York Book Co., Saalfield.
   
   
3. THE MOTION PICTURE COMRADES ALONG THE ORINOCO; or, Facing Perils in the Tropics -- illustrations signed "Lester," presumably Charles F. Lester. 1917. New York Book Co., Saalfield.
   
   
4. THE MOTION PICTURE COMRADES ABOARD A SUBMARINE; or, Searching for Treasure Under the Sea -- 1917. New York Book Co.
   
   
5. THE MOTION PICTURE COMRADES PRODUCING A SUCCESS; or, Featuring a Sensation -- 1917. Saalfield.

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WorldCat Holdings
Saalfield advertisement in Motion Picture Boys Along the Orinoco

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