International photographer (Jan-Dec 1934)

October, 1934 The INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHER Twenty-seven wiping filters, Japanese lens cleaning tissue can't be beaten. It is obtainable in most photographic and optical good stores, and is extremely inexpensive. All in all, then, it would appear the logical thing to own a good sunshade and a few good filters. If you don't as yet own such equipment, I'd suggest you start saving at once, for new avenues will open to your camera. You will secure more brilliant and snappy negatives from the sunshade, and more pleasing results in general from the filters. "INTOLERANCE "—THE SUN PLAY OF THE ACES (Continued from Page 24) A $15,000,000 Picture I have calculated roughly, that at the present scale of wages this picture would have cost over fifteen million dollars ($15,000,000). We were assisted by some of the best scientists in the world. Also in this picture made way back there you see flame throwing machines, poison gas, etc. You won't believe this, but it's there and, too, molten lead was used. Some of the moving fighting towers were as tall as the walls and were pushed toward the walls by elephants. There were seven hundred and fifty (750) horses used; sixty (60) of the persons used became great; sixteen (16) became stars — and some who had the leading parts were never heard of in a big way again. Costumes In the four stories — The Babylon of Belshazzar ; The France of Catherine de Medici (French Huguenot period) ; The Jerusalem of Christ, and America before the World War, there were more than one thousand different kinds of costumes used. When the fire throwing scenes were in full blast (fire being thrown from the moving fighting towers and from the walls) the neighbors living in little bungalows on streets adjoining the sets summoned the fire department and the big red ladder trucks and apparatus rushed past the gate guards into the scene upon which there were thousands of extras in action and spoiled nine or ten feet of film. No Casualties Remember we had only one camera running. Maybe Karl was grinding, too. I don't recall, despite the fact that one saw apparently hundreds of soldiers falling from one hundred and forty foot walls. In the closer views we used professional jumpers and nets. There were no casualties. We had an ambulance and corps of doctors and nurses, but only minor cuts and headaches happened. "Intolerance" had in it the whole of civilized history combined. 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