The art of sound pictures (1930)

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2 76 APPENDIX II Javanese street. Can be used as fishing village or South Sea water front. Hacienda. Gates and entrance into interior of hacienda courtyard; also driveway and gates. Water tanks with lake. Four hundred feet long, with backing for day or night scenes; can be filled with four to five feet of water; excellent for miniature shots of water scenes; track to run boats on. Concrete backing. Thirty feet high, 300 feet long. Exterior coal mine. Chute and elevator. Deck of boat. Period 1800; used in When a Man Loves. New York East Side street. So arranged that it can be shot from eight or ten different angles. Panorama with treadmill. Twenty feet long; excellent for chase scenes of all kinds. Bark “Narwhal.” Length, 158 feet; beam, 32 feet; depth of hull, 17 feet. Can also supply twelve storm tanks with flume on top which is all equipped for wonderful storm effects on the boat. Storm scenes in The Sea Beast were taken with these tanks and the Bark “Narwhal” alongside. Can also board a company on this boat. Located at Craig’s Ship Yards, Long Beach, California. Harold Lloyd Corporation Street set. Approximately 600 feet long, with an interesting bend in the center; cross street at this bend 150 feet long, faced on both sides. Finished at one end with an across-the-street row of buildings 130 feet long, the other end backed by a series of buildings approximately 230 feet long. These in turn are backed against a turn in the main portion of the street, making another complete street in itself, with a tjqjical little park of 1,080 square feet in area in its center, forming a square at that end of the street. The street is approximately 60 feet wide, with full sized 13 foot sidewalks, affording plenty of light making it possible to shoot the entire day. Standard gage street car tracks the entire length of the street and circling the park, switching back into itself at that end of the street. The buildings average three stories in height, and streets have fire plugs, lamp-posts, etc.