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Elmer Tracey Barnes
A house name used for fast-paced early 20th-century adventure stories, this byline is tied to a series about young filmmakers chasing danger on land and sea. The name appears on books built for excitement, cliffhangers, and the era's fascination with motion pictures.
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The motion picture comrades aboard a submarine : or, Searching for treasure under the sea
by Elmer Tracey Barnes
About the author
Elmer Tracey Barnes was not a single well-documented public author in the usual sense, but a pseudonym used by the Stratemeyer Syndicate. The Syndicate was a major American book-packaging operation that produced popular children's series fiction under many house names, letting books appear under a consistent byline even when different writers may have been involved.
Books published under this name include entries in the Motion Picture Comrades series, adventure stories centered on boys using cameras and film while traveling into risky, unusual situations. That setup gave the books a lively mix of technology, travel, and cliffhanger action that fit the tastes of young readers in the silent-film era.
Because the name functioned as a Syndicate pseudonym, reliable biographical details about a single person called Elmer Tracey Barnes are limited. What can be said with confidence is that the byline belongs to the Stratemeyer tradition of energetic juvenile series fiction, created to entertain readers with brisk plots and a strong sense of adventure.