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"They had to take the picture this way not only because the noise of the motor and the rushing water would have drowned out the dialogue but also because the actors wouldn't have looked so good if they'd been getting doused with spray while actually cruising along." From The Water, our friend leaped into the air and let us in on some secrets of aviation — as the movies do it. The stars you see crouched behind whirling propellers, machine gunning enemy planes from the sky, are seldom off the ground. "We generally use long shots for airplane stuff and have stunt men dressed in the same costumes as the stars double for them as long as the plane is aloft," the cameraman said. "When you get a close-up of the handsome hero in the cockpit, he's nearly always seated in an accurate replica of it, firmly anchored somewhere in the studio. If other planes are seen in the background, we put 'em in with the projection process, or in one of the other ways I told you. If there's just an empty sky, we paint a couple of clouds on a grey back ground. "We hardly ever fake a crack-up, though. If the plane is to be completely washed out, the pilot bails out via the parachute route out of camera range right after he starts the plane in its dive. "But if we have to show a man at the controls when the plane hits ground in a not too serious crash, a stunt man does the job." When two planes must collide in midair, either of two methods are used. Sometimes, though seldom, the planes are actually crashed, the pilots taking to their parachutes, but more often miniature models are employed. "Water doesn't make very good rain for movie work; sometimes it won't catch the light the way we want it to, and if the scene has to be retaken a couple of times, it's apt to get pretty messy. So we generally just throw a couple of buckets of water on the ground and then use glass beads for the rain drops. They sparkle fine, and they splash more naturally than rain itself. "Tapioca is used to simulate hail, and we usually use oatmeal for snow. "One of the most talked-of pictures of recent years, Glorifying The American Girl, dealt with the life of a chorus girl. It opened with a shot of thousands of girls streaming over a tremendous map of the United States on their way to New York and the bright lights of Broadway. Only a hundred girls were used — and what they really walked over was the outfield of a ball park. They'd troop toward the camera over one part of the field and then go back and walk from another part, time after time. All in all, those girls tramped across the picture fifty-three times, the same negative being rewound between each trip. It's funny the audience didn't get to recognize them, seeing 'em so often, even though they swapped hats and coats and things between shots. "The map was stuck in afterwards, through one of those double printing processes I told you about. "Another time they made a crowd in a trick way was in The Thundering Herd. In addition to a few of the animals which they chased across the picture several times, they had a lot of tiny silhouettes of the buffaloes cut out and fastened to an endless chain at irregular intervals. They kept this running a few inches in front of the lens and it helped out a lot." The foregoing revelation of movie tricks will not rob the films of any of their glamour. Remember that if it weren't for the trick cameraman and the techniques which he has developed, it would be impossible for the producers to bring you many of the breath-taking episodes which now thrill you. Get new fun by watching the films for trick shots, but don't find tricks where none exist. For example, the only way you can film a convincing fight between a lion and tiger it to let a lion and tiger fight. —Wide World 68 Gene Raymond, Leslie Howard, Dolores Del Rio and her husband, Cedric Gibbons at the annual banquet of the Motion Picture Academy of Arts and Sciences. Katharine Hepburn ivon the Academy's' 1934 award for the best work done by an actress and Charles Laughton won the actor's award HOLLYWOOD