Silver Screen (Nov 1938-Apr 1939)

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I wish I had the time and space and the ability to tell you all about the deep fascination of the Walt Disney studio. There is nothing just like this little spot anywhere. Here is an art that stands alone. The phantasy and yet the human reality of the Disney cartoon characters is without equal. In this tiniest of all the studios they have the largest camera in existence. It cost $70,000, and is fully 10 feet high and 6 feet square. It is called a Multiplane camera. ''Bambi" has been in work for a yearand-a-half and it will be another two years before it is finished. This is the longest schedule for any picture ever made. It will cost two million dollars. The Disney workers have the most ideal of working conditions. There are no time clocks in the place. Walt (no one calls him Mr. Disney) has a school, free for his artists who care to study, that costs him $100,000 a year to run. There is also a unique process laboratory that no other studio has. It is for use by the Disney employees and Walt himself. As he says, "just to fiddle around in.'' Can you imagine a fiddling laboratory for employees at any other studio or in any other business. It is used just for fun, for creating trick effects. Walt knows that artists must have freedom to create. And as he has said, "you must keep experimenting, keep pecking away." Many new cartoon characters have been born here in this freedom and friendliness. It's paid for itself many times. Here, in the smallest of studios, lies, I think, the most complete fascination for any visitor. You can guess, can't you, who the best loved employer in Hollywood is? It is this same man who has, surely, the most beautiful dream in Hollywood, too. And it is slowly becoming a reality. He is in the midst of building a new dream studio. It will have 21 completely equipped buildings and fifty-one acres of ground. There will be a swimming pool and badminton and tennis courts for the employees. The 20th Century-Fox lot is the largest studio in the world. It spreads over 225 acres of the rolling California hills, a strip over a mile long and one-fourth of a mile wide. It is by far the most modem, the newest, the best planned. It has been completely rebuilt in the three years Darryl Zanuck has been in charge. The stage labelled "14," here, holds within its plain, thick walls a unique and widespread fascination. Hidden in here are all the intricacies that made Sonja Henie our orchid of the ice. Here is installed the first rink that the movies dared to experiment with, a $50,000 freezing equipment which has been successful beyond the wildest dreams. It was an experiment but so expertly and minutely planned that it has never lost time or money for its owners. Ice, before this, was always taboo in Hollywood, and now it has brought us Sonja and her beautiful ballets. No other studio has anything like this. Others rent ice rinks. Here, at Fox, they have the best technicolor accessories, $100,000 worth. Be cause of its vast acreage they have here, too, the best fire fighting equipment. Their apparatus would be a credit to a city of 10,000 people. No other studio 'has the lavish star bungalows that they have on this lot either. They have eight complete, separate full size houses, with electric kitchens and every luxury. To Shirley Temple's studio home come her 6000 fan letters a week, much more than any other star gets. On these vast acres they have the largest and the greatest number of permanent outdoor sets. And they have the most complete and largest arsenal with an unparalleled collection of fire arms. They have the U. S. government's permission to have in possession the largest collection of machine guns outside of our actual military defense. All these Fox superlatives on such a large scale are in Westwood or, as it is called, Fox Hills. But at the Paramount studio, one of the three that is actually in Hollywood (R.-K.-O. and Columbia are the other two) the deepest fascination and the most curiosity, right now, centers around Cecil B. DeMille's production of "Union Pacific." First of all because Mr. DeMille is unique as a director. He surrounds himself with more assistants and technicians than any other in Hollywood. On "Union Pacific" he went into the deepest research with his staff for eight months before the picture started. This production is awe inspiring in the immensity of its location locales and the huge locomotives of the 1868 period that had to be found, purchased and brought to Hollywood. Mr. DeMille promises the most spectacular train wreck and the burning of the huge trestle that it was necessary for Paramount studios to build. This, as you can see, overshadows every other interest on the Paramount lot so far as shooting goes. Bing Crosby makes the most money for Paramount and, by the way, is one of the highest paid on the lot. Bing has himself incorporated and he is in more businesses than any one in Hollywood, what with his recordings and his own race track and his horse breeding. This lot is comparatively small and there are no outstanding greats only because of their size. Consequently it is necessary for them to be the most ingenious. And so, the permanent "New York Street" set has been made to double for streets in every large city in the world. By changing doors and windows and signs and using shrubs this street in "Artists and Models" was a boulevard in Paris and, within a few days, it was a street in NewYork's Chinatown in a Bulldog Drummond picture. It is used in almost every picture made on the Paramount lot and it is known as the most photographed set in the business. AVarner Brothers Studios have the finest laboratory for printing and developing their films. By the way, Warners isn't in Hollywood, either. It's in Burbank. The building is new and cost $500.000. It is fire proof, dust proof and the temperature never varies one-tenth of a degree. Dust, fire and uneven temperature keep each studio ever seeking more exacting methods for developing and for protecting film. The air you breathe here is filtered three times, once through oil,