The international photographer (Feb-Dec 1929)

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July, 1929 The INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHER Thirty-one ^hooting ZHelPs Angels BY HARRY PERRY Chief of Aerial Photography, Harry Perry, Relates Incidents of Its filming. Statistics. Seventy exterior and interior sets, providing background for the ground action alone, were constructed at a cost of approximately $800,000. Dressing of the scenes, alone, cost another $70,000, and costumes used by the players totaled $165,000. Approximately $1,200,000 was expended on the air flights alone. Howard Hughes, president of the Caddo Company, the ruling spirit of the production. The aerial action was conducted in eight different locales in California, with specially constructed fields, ships and hangars at Caddo Field, Van Nuys, as a permanent air base. Cost approximately $3,000,000 — not hokobolos or copecks. But greater even than the ground operations were the aerial activities which continued for eighteen months, used the largest forces of planes and personnel ever privately brought together and probably flew more war craft than all other previous war pictures combined. Forty planes in a single shot. There were 137 skilled men on the air force payroll, 72 of them pilots and 65 mechanics. The "Hell's Angels" air fleet consisted of 87 true war-type planes, half a dozen camera ships, a giant German Gotha bomber, and a German dirigible. Among the types bought and re-conditioned for the picture were German Fokkers, British T. M.'s and S. E. 5's, Avros, DeHavilands, Jennies and Snipes. It cost $560,000 to buy and restore this equipment. At Inglewood, a British training camp was reproduced. Scenes behind the lines were represented at Encino, and a German field was maintained at Chatsworth. Flying fields at San Diego and Riverside were used for other portions of the story, the Zeppelin's North Sea flight was recorded off the beach at Santa Cruz, and then for four months at the great Oakland airport, opposite San Francisco, the greater combats of the air were pictured with the full fleet of 87 war planes in operation. Two million feet of film in the can. Here are some statistics from the auditor's books of the Caddo Company: Gaetano Gaudio shot the dramatic scenes of the picture aside from the aerial work. From beginning to end nearly one hundred members of Local 659 were employed on this picture either as cinematographers or assistants. Almost two years filming. Incidents of Filming "Hell's Angels" Al Johnson, stunt pilot, had narrow escape when the wing of his plane scraped the ground in making a turn close to the ground for scene at Marsh Field. George Cooper and Bob Lloyd had near accident when their plane scraped top of hangar at Marsh Field. Al Johnson died from burns re m ACCEPTED AS THE SOLUTION TO BETTER PHOTOGRAPHY 1 _ . g, PANCHROMATIC | MAKE-UP I i a m Manufactured Exclusively by Max Factor 1 B The first major step toward the standardization of make-up. It will eliminate the use of gaudy, useless colors. H Panchromatic make-up is used in every studio, and its success H is an outstanding achievement. 8 W M 1 a Max Factor Make-Up Studios 1 Highland Avenue at Hollywood Boulevard Chicago Office: 444 West Grand Avenue HOlIywood 6191 Cable Address "FACTO" London Office: 10 D'Arblay Street 1