But there was no need to take the bear scene over again, as sometimes happens when movies are being filmed. It was all right from the first click of the cameras.
Other scenes were taken the next day in the lumber camp, and in some the Curlytops had small parts, much to their delight. They liked it in the woods, and Mrs. Martin was glad to remain a few days in one spot and have the shelter of a cabin in which to sleep.
Mr. Birch decided that as long as he was in a lumber camp he had better take some scenes of chopping down trees, and this was arranged for. Then, as his company was one producing comedies, he wanted something funny and decided to have a man up in a tree that was being chopped down.
One of the lumbermen volunteered to take this part, as he said it had really happened to him once. He jumped out of the falling tree into another standing near by, and so was not hurt.
“I can do the same thing again,” he said.
This scene took place on the edge of the clearing in the lumber camp, where the light was good. As the company carried no powerful electric lights with them, they had to depend on the sun, and in the depths of the woods there was not light enough for taking good pictures.
After some funny antics, the lumberman climbed the tree. Then another man began to chop it down. It did not take long, for the lumbermen know how to fell a tree in a few minutes. And as the big pine began to sway toward the earth, the trunk being almost cut through, Mr. Birch cried:
“Jump now!”
The man jumped, a camera filming him as he leaped from the falling tree to one standing near it. Then down to the earth crashed the tall pine.
There was a shout of dismay from some of the movie people standing off to one side.