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item to be taken along; its value, its make, whether foreign or American; and its weight. These lists were made out in quadruplicate ; two were sent to the customs authorities ; one was kept always with the baggage ; and one was filed at the studio. It was necessary to note on these lists not only complete assemblies, such as cameras, but every item that goes to make up each assembly as well. Lens, lens holders, and even take-up screws, had to be listed separately in the customs lists. Each department of the studio organization was responsible for the material needed by the members of that department in the Orient, and was charged with the preparation of that material for shipment.
Everything was in readiness for the departure early in May of last year. The company left the studio and traveled directly to Vancouver, where it embarked for Hong Kong on the Canadian Pacific steamer, Empress of Russia. At Hong Kong, after pausing briefly to film Chinese street scenes for the picture East is West, which was then in production at the studio, a transfer was made to the P. and O. steamer Kiver, sailing for Singapore. The company arrived at Singapore on the fourth of June.
Complete laboratory equipment must always accompany an expedition of this, kind in order that the film may be developed soon after exposure so as to avoid deterioration. Due to inherent characteristics of sensitized film, if sound track is not developed within approximately twenty-four hours after exposure, the film will deteriorate, resulting in a loss of the high frequency components of the recorded sound. Consequently it was always necessary to set up the laboratory unit within about twenty-four hours' traveling time of the production unit. The negatives were developed daily, one print of each negative being made for the use of the location company. The negatives were held and sent back to the studio about once a month.
The company, arriving at Singapore, began to make plans foi shooting the picture. The laboratory unit was set up in a rente( building, while the production unit traveled four hundred mil< up the east coast of the Malay States to a small fishing village namec Quantan. Two weeks were spent in filming and recording certain village sequences of the picture. The arrangements for transporting the exposed film to Singapore each day presented one of the first complications of the trip. Every night after the day's shooting had been completed, the exposed film was dispatched by automobile to