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The ship herself, a replica of the original "Old Ironsides," is really the heroine of the film. Above, an enemy frigate is about to ram her.
"Old I ronsides"
The filming of the battle scenes in the spectac of that famous old man-o'-war furnished many
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RASH after crash . resounded across the glinting stretch of water !
The air was veiled in smoke ! Black cannons, ancient and menacing, belched fire and thunder !
Men, sweating and toiling, yelled and shouted !
Timbers cracked, sails were torn asunder, the while gray vessels, solemn in their antiquity, shivered and trembled in response to the thrilling and adventurous roar and clatter of battle !
With all the noise and racket and smell of gunpowder that used to attend an Independence Day celebration, the conquest of Tripoli by the United States was being reenacted in the harbor of Catalina Island, off the coast of California.
Beneath the rugged cliffs were gathered vessels of all sizes and descriptions. Pirate craft, with slanting lateen sails, and oars for galley slaves, glided low in the water. Old square-riggers, picturesquely lofty, rode proudly upon the sapphire bay. Guns boomed from the brown and terraced fort located on a stretch of neighboring land. Far green hills echoed the unfamiliar clamor and reverberation, as war's pageant, martial and imposing, was enacted.
By swift motor boat we had come to the location of the company filming "Old Ironsides." From the hurly-burly of the twentieth century, we had been transported into a world athrob with the exploits of corsairs,
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recalled and re-created to give truly epical significance to a movie. War's alarums mingled with an idyllic setting, as a historic page of America's beginnings was being relived for the sake of a film production that in itself promises to be historic.
For the benefit of any who may have a misconception regarding its character, it may be just as well to mention that the motion picture, "Old Ironsides," has nothing whatsoever to do with the corset industry — though it's true that the phrase, "old ironsides," has long been used facetiously to describe that sturdy garment.
It is the story of the U. S. frigate. Constitution, which sailed the seas fully a century ago as a guardian of American shipping, then threatened by many foreign enemies. The vessel gained the nickname, "Old Ironsides," because she seemed impervious to attacking shells and bullets. A certain amount of superstition existed about her amazing power to withstand the most terrific onslaughts of inimical fleets. "Hard as iron," the sailors called her.
You may recall that, about a year ago, a tremendous hubbub of attention was directed toward this ancient and celebrated oceanic conqueror. It was one of those rare occasions when national sentiment suddenly spreads its wings and takes flight to every section of the counJohnny Walker in the try. The public as a historical character of whole was affected Stephen Decatur. bv the news that the