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theater where "rushes" were shown nightly, and where pictures requested by the company were run four times a week.
Stars and other "top" members of the company lived two to a lent— which comprised three rooms ("parlor, bedroom and bath"), comfortably furnished, equipped with every convenience from stall showers to ice boxes. Other members of the company lived five to a tent, their quarters equally comfortable. All tents were floored, had sectional sidewalls which opened for ventilation.
A mile north of this city was built the village of Tantrapur, a typical north Indian town, complete from bouses to shops. Here they filmed the rooftop fighting described at the opening of this story.
Five miles south of this set, far back among high, tumbled boulders, was the giant temple, its walls decorated with a frieze of life-like stone elephants. The temple was surrounded by dozens of crude huts for native traders, a native smithy and forge, dozens of cannon illegally purchased ^according to the story) from white smugglers.
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An "off stage" snap of Joan Fontaine, Gary Grant and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., as they rehearse.
perature, so why cool place?"
The location selected, 100 workmen moved in and spent five weeks constructing the three enormous sets required by the exterior shots, and built a tent city to house the company and crew. The city appropriately named i Din— contained more than 100 I buildings designed to feed and j house a population averaging I! 600 men (1200 were there durJ ing the filming of big battle i scenes).
Gunga Din included a commissar) where 400 men were fed at one time, a j recreation tent humorously named I "Gungad Inn," a hospital with staff of I male nurses, make-up tent housing 120 S make-up tables, wardrobe tent with racks for 2,000 costumes and uniforms, I administrative tent, postoffice, open-air
"Tent City," erected for the "Gunga Din" troupe. In spite of the withering heat, a classic is being filmed — but then it was hot in India, too.
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