International photographer (Jan-Dec 1941)

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MOvilNQ MOUNTAIN AT WARNER bROThERS A moving mountain has been brought to the interior of the largest sound stage on the Warner Bros, studio lot. Its base is anchored to a revolving steel table. A whirl of the table, which operates on the principle of a simple merry-go-round, and the mountain will turn any one of its sixteen faces to the camera. The revolving mountain is just one feature of a set constructed for "Sergeant York." The original title of this film based on the exploits of America's most famous World War hero was "The Amazing Story of Sergeant York." Art Director John Hughes must have planned his key set before the title was shortened. Certainly this particular background is nothing less than amazing. In the confines of 250 by 135 feet of floor space, Hughes and his technical as sistants have duplicated an entire Cumberland mountain valley flanked by promontories and ridges, and bisected by a turbulent, rock-bedded stream. One of the promontories is the moving mountain. The set represents, with complete authenticity, a part of the Tennessee mountain valley of the Three Forks of the Wolf, where Alvin C. York was born and reared and where he still lives. For various reasons, chiefly the availability of facilities, it was considered more practical to bring a part of the Three Forks of the Wolf to Hollywood than to take a part of Hollywood to the Three Forks of the Wolf. The revolving mountain was inspired by the demands of the screen play. In the first place, as Art Director Hughes pointed out, a real mountain is as changing in its appearance as a chameleon. It looks one way in the soft glow of moonlight, presents quite another face in the harsh glare of noon. There are scenes in the picture which will show Gary Cooper, who plays Sergeant York, walking the mountain trails by moonlight with Joan Leslie, the Gracie Williams York of the story. There are other scenes which show him looking out over the fog-shrouded valley in the early twilight, fox-hunting in the cool morning and ploughing the rocky slope in the heat of the day. In all there will be sixteen different camera setups requiring the mountain background. Many of the changes could be achieved by lighting. Others, involving physical details, could not. It would have been possible to build six, or sixteen, separate mountain sets — deep ravines, rock ledges, Revolving "mountain" built on Warner Bros." largest Bound stage 26