The Motion Picture Studio Insider (1935)

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June, 1935 Motion Picture Studio Insider 23 IEADS WARNER TRANSPORTATION Automotive Equipment Covers Entire Range from Motorcycles to Trucks Ralph Anderson , company driver, shown filling his car preparatory to going on location. in Europe. Today, as a hobby, Klein is an aviator. Twenty-five years ago he got his first thrill out of the air by rac¬ ing — in a Stoddard-Dayton speedster — with old-time Wright and Curtiss push¬ er-type biplanes. Dirt track racing for Stoddard-Dayton, then Mercer racing till 1913, and then Klein went with the King people. Do you remember the old King Eight? Well, Klein started with them — and built a racer — when it was only a King Four. An interesting episode of wartime, when Klein was a star of the speedways along with such famous fellows as Rickenbacker, Oldfield, Cooper and Burman, concerned itself with that regi¬ ment which the late Teddy Roosevelt volunteered to raise. Rickenbacker had been promoted by publicity hounds of the motor car business as chauffeur to General Pershing. Klein was scheduled to be personal chauffeur to Colonel Roosevelt. But the Roosevelt regiment idea was voted down by Washington, and Klein, instead, went to England and to France as a lieutenant of avia¬ tion. It was there that he learned how to fly. After the war, it will be remembered, Klein went back into racing and was noted as a “pace-setter”. Seldom a win¬ ner, he was almost always in the money, and he lent color to the sport as a mem¬ ber of such teams as that which Cliff Durant backed in 1921 and 1922. In 1923 he quit racing, went to work for an automobile distributor as service su¬ perintendent, and five years ago took over the management of the WarnerFirst National automotive — or “Trans¬ portation” — department. The Warner Brothers lots — there are three of them — boast many vehicles for screen-play production purposes that serve to remind Klein of the early days of the “horseless carriage”. There are, for example, such ancient vehicles as White Steamers, one-cylinder Cadillacs, and aged Stevens — Duryea cars. For foreign pictures, to give the mo¬ torized touch of authenticity to foreign street scenes, his department has every conceivable alien make — Mercedes, Isoto-Fraschini, Minerva, and others. Now, both for ordinary transportation problems of the studio, and for produc¬ tions which call for modern motor cars in American settings, Klein has just or¬ dered a fleet of Buick Eights. These — mostly seven-passenger sedans — will not only serve as vehicles for transporting stars and others from studio to studio and on location, but they, themselves, will be stars — appearing as mute players in the pictures. Klein, off-scene, has not forgotten his wartime training as a flier, and he con¬ fesses that aviation is his most precious hobby. He has personally owned a to¬ tal of four ships, and just now is con¬ templating the purchase of another. Yes — Warner-First National, in trans¬ portation and in the mentor of that de¬ partment, is thoroughly motorized for the automobile, and the airplane, have colored the life of Art Klein. Different types of equipment to be found on the Warner Broth' ers-First Rfational lot. The roll' in g stoc\ here shown represents only a small percentage of the equipment operated by the larg¬ est transportation department in the business.