Tom Swift and His Wizard Camera

Something new in this Tom Swift book is the full participation of Koku, the giant that Tom encountered in the previous book, Tom Swift in Captivity. A glance back at the previous book showed that it said Tom was asked to get a giant, not necessarily to capture a giant, which would've been absurd to......more

In this book, Tom invents a new camera for taking motion pictures. He does so after being approached by named James Period, called Spotty by his friends. Spotty is a businessman that has grandiose ideas about action movies that he wants created to be shown in theaters. He wants action from natural......more

Tom Swift novels are never strong on plot, tending to rely instead on momentary crises and vaguely motivated bad guys to move things along. This one really leans into that formula, and basically has no real coherent plot as a result. It's just neat that we are flying around with Tom and his friends,......more

#14 in the Tom Swift series. This 1912 series entry by pseudonymous author Victor Appleton is average for the series. Tom is hired to invent a movie camera and travel around the world taking newsreels of wild animals, volcanos, avalanches, and the like. Fairly pedestrian today, but this was written......more

It was interesting because he made a portable camera - a bit bigger. He used it for scenes for a movie. He got brilliant scenes of avalanches, volcanoes, eathquakes and elephant stampedes as well as jungle wildfire. It was a very enjoyable book.......more