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PHOTOGRAPHER
( Props — Costumes — Cont. )
OCTOBER, 1937—31
PICTURES BY CRAIL
Warner Brothers spared no expense to insure historical accuracy in the props for their Technicolor production, "Adventures of Robin Hood." The full page layout at the right shows studio experts making bows and arrows for Robin Hood's "Merry Men" with the most modern equipment. Above at left is shown the completion of the designs for battlemaces, right top, finishing of staffs for pennons and bottom, the finished products get a tryout.
Bill Kiehle, property men for the company; and most of these props — including some 10,000 arrows — were made in the modern Crafts Building at Warner Brothers' Studio. A large staff was kept busy for many weeks in their manufacture.
The feudal background of the classic yarn calls for quarter staffs, maces, war flails, battle axes, neck and leg
chains, period bread boards, baking sticks, twelfth century trumpets and musical instruments, arm guards, armor for men and horses, money, lamps, drinking vessels, cooking utensils, long bows, cross bows, quivers, lances, pennants, broad swords and scores of other items. All were made in the prop shop from designs taken from valuable old books which deal with that period of history.
Also needed were saddles, harness and equipment for tinkers, blacksmiths and cobblers. The array overflowed the motorized prop wagon and jammed three baggage cars to the roof when the company went on location near Chico, California, last month.
While most of the props were made right in the studio, a number of soldiers' and knights' saddles, thanks to
Cecil B. DeMille who had them made for "The Crusades," were already made and simply had to be rented from the Western Costume Company.
Thousands of dollars worth of costumes also were manufactured in the studio wardrobe. This particular assignment was more difficult than usual because of the necessity for making them photographically perfect for the Technicolor cameras.
Norman Reilly Raine and Seton I. Miller wrote the Warners' version of "Robin Hood." going back to original sources — the famous old ballads — for their inspiration, and also provided the script. William Keighley, who handled color on "God's Country and the Woman," Technicolor picture, last year, is the director and Henry Blanke is the assistant producer.